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Professor Hugh Alexander Webster , FRSGS (1849 – 7 January 1926) was a Scottish teacher, librarian and encyclopaedist. ==Biography== The son of Rev David Webster and Isabella McKinnon, Hugh Webster was born in Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire, and educated first privately by his father and later at Edinburgh University (1878–80). He became a teacher at Merchiston Castle Academy and later Librarian at the University. He was a member of a group of encyclopaedists working in Edinburgh in the late 19th century including William Robertson Smith (editor of the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' and contributor to the ''Encyclopaedia Biblica''); David Patrick (editor of ''Chambers's Encyclopaedia'', ''Chambers's Biographical Dictionary'', and ''Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature''); J Sutherland Black (editor of Encyclopaedia Biblica); George Sandeman, (editor in chief of Nelson's Encyclopaedia) and Patrick Geddes. Hugh Webster was fluent in fourteen languages which allowed him to access sources from European and Asian writers. Patrick Geddes, writing from Montpellier in 1926: Geddes also reported a comment from his friend and colleague George Sandeman Hugh Webster was one of four (sub-editors of the 9th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica ) published in 1888 and known as "The Scholar's Edition". He authored the articles on (Borneo ), the (Celebes islands ), (Colombia ), (Corea (Korea) ), the river (Danube ), the (Druse ) people of Syria, (Ecuador ), (Frankfort-on-the-Main ), (Geneva ), (Guiana ), (Hainan ), (the Indian archipelago ), (Italy ), (Java ), (Montenegro ), the river (Niger ), the river (Nile ), (Patagonia ), (The Philippines ), (Réunion ), (Rio de Janeiro ), (the Sahara ), (Sierra Leone ), and (Sumatra ) Hugh Webster was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh FRSE on 2 May 1887 proposed by Sir John Murray, William Evans Hoyle, Robert Gray, Alexander Buchan. His election was cancelled in 1896-7.〔http://www.rse.org.uk/948_BiographicalIndexProject.html |accessdate=4 July 2012〕 He was a founder member and the first Honorary Fellow of the Scottish Geographical Society〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.rsgs.org/awardsandmedals/fellowship.html )〕 and edited the Society's magazine for several years. Hugh Webster had intense powers of mental application and was quite capable of forgetting both time and place. He was also generous to those who were less fortunate, a trait he attributed to his experiences when his father was Chaplain to the Poorhouse and Prison in Linlithgow. Hugh Webster became an alcoholic. The University granted him several furloughs but in the end he developed delirum tremens, had a breakdown, lost his job as Librarian and was confined to home. He lived in London for some years in reduced circumstances, and then returned to Edinburgh to live with his daughter Maud and her husband John Janes. Somewhere in this period he stopped drinking. In his later years he used to take students from the university to prepare them for the Entrance Examination in English. These were mainly from India, China, Korea and Africa. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hugh Alexander Webster」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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