William Morfill

William Morfill, 1894 lithograph by William Rothenstein

William Richard Morfill FBA (17 November 1834 – 9 November 1909) was Professor of Russian and the other Slavonic languages at the University of Oxford from 1900 until his death. He was the first professor of Russian in Britain,[1] and his house in North Oxford was marked with a commemorative blue plaque by the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board in 2009.[2]

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  2. ^ William Richard Morfill (1834–1909), Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme, UK.