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	*{{cite journal\|last=Speight\|first=E E\|title=Poems Made on the Royal Visit of Jito Tenno to the Shrine of Yoshino by Hitomaro, Meiji Seitoku Kinen Gakkai Kiyou\|year=1922\|publisher=Meiji Seitoku Kinen Gakkai\|volume=17\|pages=12–13\|url=http://www.mkc.gr.jp/seitoku/vol.1-20.htm}}<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://www.mkc.gr.jp/seitoku/vol.1-20.htm&ei=f_spTdGgJ8au8gPDxKS7Ag&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCIQ7gEwAQ&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522Poems%2BMade%2Bon%2Bthe%2BRoyal%2BVisit%2Bof%2BJito%2BTenno%2Bto%2Bthe%2BShrine%2Bof%2BYoshino%2Bby%2BHitomaro%2522%26num%3D100%26hl%3Den%26newwindow%3D1%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den%26prmd%3Divns\|title=Foundation Corporate Meizi Isao Satoshi Memorial Society Bulletin Table of Contents Article 1 Volume ( Taisyou 3 Year ) – Article 20 Volume ( Taisyou 12 Year )\|work=Google Translation of citation\|publisher=Meiji Seitoku Kinen Gakkai (Meiji Japan Society)\|access-date=9 January 2011}}</ref>		*{{cite journal\|last=Speight\|first=E E\|title=Poems Made on the Royal Visit of Jito Tenno to the Shrine of Yoshino by Hitomaro, Meiji Seitoku Kinen Gakkai Kiyou\|year=1922\|publisher=Meiji Seitoku Kinen Gakkai\|volume=17\|pages=12–13\|url=http://www.mkc.gr.jp/seitoku/vol.1-20.htm}}<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://www.mkc.gr.jp/seitoku/vol.1-20.htm&ei=f_spTdGgJ8au8gPDxKS7Ag&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCIQ7gEwAQ&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522Poems%2BMade%2Bon%2Bthe%2BRoyal%2BVisit%2Bof%2BJito%2BTenno%2Bto%2Bthe%2BShrine%2Bof%2BYoshino%2Bby%2BHitomaro%2522%26num%3D100%26hl%3Den%26newwindow%3D1%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den%26prmd%3Divns\|title=Foundation Corporate Meizi Isao Satoshi Memorial Society Bulletin Table of Contents Article 1 Volume ( Taisyou 3 Year ) – Article 20 Volume ( Taisyou 12 Year )\|work=Google Translation of citation\|publisher=Meiji Seitoku Kinen Gakkai (Meiji Japan Society)\|access-date=9 January 2011}}</ref>
	*{{cite book\|last1=Jefferies\|first1=Richard\|last2=Speight\|first2=E E\|title=The Story of My Heart (Waga Kokoro No Ki)\|publisher=Kenkyusha Limited\|isbn=978-4-327-01086-7}}<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://webcatplus.nii.ac.jp/webcatplus/details/book/isbn/9784327010867.html?txt_isbn=9784327010867\|title=The story of my heart\|publisher=Webcat Plus\|language=ja\|access-date=10 January 2011\|quote=by Richard Jefferies; with introduction & notes by E.E. Speight}}</ref>		*{{cite book\|last1=Jefferies\|first1=Richard\|last2=Speight\|first2=E E\|title=[[The Story of My Heart]] (Waga Kokoro No Ki)\|publisher=Kenkyusha Limited\|isbn=978-4-327-01086-7}}<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://webcatplus.nii.ac.jp/webcatplus/details/book/isbn/9784327010867.html?txt_isbn=9784327010867\|title=The story of my heart\|publisher=Webcat Plus\|language=ja\|access-date=10 January 2011\|quote=by [[Richard Jefferies]]; with introduction & notes by E.E. Speight}}</ref>

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{{short description|Lexicographer, educationalist, philosopher, poet, anthropologist, publisher, author; Speight was a Yorkshireman who was professor of English in Japan and latterly India.}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Ernest Edwin Speight
| image = E E Speight.jpg
| alt = Ernest Edwin Speight
| caption = circa 1930 in India
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1871|12|06}}
| birth_place = [[Bradford]], Yorkshire
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1949|09|17|1871|12|06}}
| death_place = [[Ootacamund]], India
| nationality = English
| other_names = E E Speight
| known_for = [[lexicography]], [[educationalist]], philosopher, poet, [[anthropologist]],<ref name="walsh" /> Publisher<ref name="nyt" /><ref name="nzstar" />
| occupation = Professor of english, author
}}
'''Ernest Edwin Speight''' (6 December 1871 – 17 September 1949), usually known as '''E E Speight''', was a [[Yorkshire]]man who travelled in Japan and India and was a professor of English for twenty years at the [[University of Tokyo|Imperial University, Tokyo]], Japan and also at the [[Kanazawa University|Fourth Higher School]], [[Kanazawa, Ishikawa|Kanazawa]],<ref name="gazette" /> then for a further twenty years at the [[Osmania University]], [[Hyderabad, India]]. In India he made a study of the [[Nilgiri mountains|Nilgiri]] hill tribes and was working on a [[Toda language|Toda]] grammar at his death<ref name="walsh">{{cite news|title=Ernest Speight – A Portrait|last=Walsh|first=R R|date=15 April 1953|work=The Sunday Statesman |quote=During his retirement he lived alone, devoting himself to the care of his fascinating library and extensive collection of Japanese art treasures and antiques. and the study of the language and customs and mythology of the Nilgiri hill tribes, the Badagas. He was compiling a Toda grammar when he died}}</ref><ref name="peter">{{cite news|title=Memories of Ernest Speight|last=Peter|first=Prince of Greece and Denmark|date=20 April 1953|work=The Statesman |quote=On September 17 at 8 am he had the second heart attack, which killed him ... I went over to Mount Stewart to put seals on his lonely dwelling with the manager of the local branch of the Imperial Bank of India}}</ref>

In Speight's youth he was a friend of [[W. B. Yeats]], [[A. E. Housman]] and [[George Bernard Shaw]], in his latter years of [[Rabindranath Tagore|Tagore]], [[Aurobindo]], [[Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi|Mohandas K Gandhi]], and [[Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark]] for whom he reviewed some of his writings.<ref name="walsh" /><ref name="peter" />

In addition to teaching, Speight wrote a substantial number of English textbooks, some of which remain in use in the 21st-century English syllabus in India.<ref name="tribune">{{cite web|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20040410/career.htm|title=An Ode to Primer English|last=Loathta|first=A K|date=10 April 2004|work=[[The Tribune (Chandigarh)|The Tribune]]|access-date=27 May 2010|location=[[Chandigarh]], [[India]]|quote=A larger part of English syllabus for classes below BA and BSc should be that of primer English. Equal attention should be paid to grammar as well. Syllabus in lower classes should be such that every student must have studied in detail J. C. Nesfield, Wren and Martin, Roger Fowler, E. E. Speight, T. L. H. Smith Pearse, F. T. Wood, Hugh Jarrett, Randolph Quirk and E. R. Ram Kumar by the time he or she passes the class XII examination.}}</ref> Speight also wrote fiction, poetry, music, and edited anthologies.

With his business partner R. H. Walpole, Speight formed The Saracen's Head Library, a publishing house based in [[Teignmouth]], in [[Devon]].<ref name="nyt">{{cite web|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1903/12/19/102033042.pdf|title=The Saracen's Head Library|date=19 December 1903|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=26 May 2010 |quote=A new library of books for collectors, to be entitled The Saracen's Head Library, is about to be published by Ernest Speight and Reginald Horace Walpole}}</ref><ref name="nzstar">{{cite news|url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=TS19040210.2.52.1&l=mi&e=-------10--1----2-all|title=Notes|date=10 February 1904|work=The Star|access-date=26 May 2010|location=New Zealand|page=4|quote=Mr Ernest Speight and Mr Reginald Horace Walpole of Teignmouth ... are about to commence the publication of finely produced books for collectors, to be entitled 'The Saracen's Head Library'}}</ref>

==Personal life==

Speight was married twice. On 11 July 1899 he married Ragna Grõn (11 July 1876 – 3 May 1953) of [[Norway]] who travelled to Japan overland by train through Russia from Norway twice with their young son Arthur, and he later married Doris Allix (10 July 1901 – 22 May 1991) in India with whom he had two sons, Peter and Michael.

==Honours==
Speight was awarded the Fifth Class of the [[Order of the Rising Sun]] by the Emperor of Japan for services to teaching, and was allowed this honour by the King<ref name="gazette">{{cite journal|date=17 September 1918|title=Whitehall, September 14, 1918|journal=[[The London Gazette]]|page=11090|url=http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/30905/pages/11090/page.pdf|access-date=19 July 2010|quote=The KING has been pleased to give and grant unto Ernest Edwin Speight, Esq.. Teacher at the Fourth Higher School at Kanazawa, Kaga, Japan, His Majesty's Royal licence and authority to wear the Insignia of the Fifth Class of the Order of the Rising Sun, which Decoration has been conferred upon him by His Majesty the Emperor of Japan in recognition of valuable services rendered by him.}}</ref>

==Bibliography==
*{{cite book |title=Indian Masters of English – An Anthology of English Prose By Indian Writers |isbn=978-1-4067-1209-4 |publisher=Davidson Press |last=Speight |first=E E|date=March 2007 }}
*{{cite book |title=A High School Composition for Matriculation Classes |year=1948 |publisher=Orient Longmans Ltd., Madras 2 |last1=Speight |first1=E E|last2=Sethi|first2=G L}}
*{{cite book|last1=Speight|first1=E E|last2=Nance|first2=R Morton|author-link2=Robert Morton Nance|title=Britain's Sea Story|date=1 January 1912|publisher=Henry Frowde |asin=B000LQ60UM| location=UK}}
*{{cite book|last=Speight|first=E E|title=Sentinel Hours|publisher=Rinsland Press|isbn=978-1-4067-6932-6|date=March 2007}}
*{{cite book|last=Speight|first=E E|title=Hakluyt's English Voyages|year=1905|publisher=Marshall |asin=B000SEJSM4}}
*{{cite book|last1=Speight|first1=E E|last2=Dowden|first2=Edward|title=The temple reader: A reading book in literature for school and home (New English series)|date=1 January 1899|publisher=Horace Marshall and Son |asin=B0008B8NKK}}
*{{cite book|last=Speight|first=E E|title=Galleon of Torbay, The: A Romance |date=1 January 1908|publisher=Chatto & Windus |asin=B000GLGYOY}}
*{{cite book|last=Speight|first=E E|title=Black's sentinel readers: Book IV|year=1917|publisher=A. & C. Black |asin=B0008B8Q98}}
*{{cite book|last=Speight|first=E E|title=Black's sentinel readers: Book V|year=1919|publisher=A. & C. Black |asin=B0008B8Q9I}}
*{{cite book|last=Speight|first=E E|title=Black's sentinel readers: Book VI|year=1915|publisher=A. & C. Black |asin=B0008B8Q8Y}}
*{{cite journal|last=Speight|first=E E|date=July 1936|title=Marmaduke Pickthall|journal=Islamic Culture|volume=X|pages=iii–vi|title-link=Marmaduke Pickthall}}<ref name="MP">{{cite web |url=http://www.masud.co.uk/ISLAM/bmh/BMM-AHM-pickthall_bio.htm |title=Marmaduke Pickthall, a brief biography |access-date=26 May 2010 |publisher=British Muslim Heritage – Mas'ud Ahmed Khan}}</ref>
*{{cite book|last1=Reeves|first1=The hon W P|last2=Speight|first2=E E|title=The Imperial Reader: being a descriptive account of the territories forming the British Empire. |asin=B0017H4K5G}}
*{{cite journal|last=Speight|first=E E|date=30 June 1911|title=A Few Norwegian Proverbs|journal=Folklore|publisher=Taylor & Francis on behalf of Folklore Enterprises|volume=22|issue=2|pages=213–218|jstor=1255063|doi=10.1080/0015587x.1911.9719475|url=https://zenodo.org/record/1429953}}
*{{cite book|last1=Major|first1=A F (Albany Featherstonehaugh)|last2=Speight|first2=E E|last3=Powell|first3=Frederick York|title=Stories from the Northern Sagas|url=http://dmr.bsu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/HistChldBks&CISOPTR=2599&REC=4|access-date=27 May 2010|year=1899|publisher=Horace Marshall & Son}}
*{{cite book|last1=Lamb|first1=Charles|last2=Speight|first2=E E|title=The Adventures of Ulysses|year=1905|publisher=Horace Marshall and Son |asin=B001BYOCSA}}
*{{cite journal|last=Speight|first=E E|title=Poems Made on the Royal Visit of Jito Tenno to the Shrine of Yoshino by Hitomaro, Meiji Seitoku Kinen Gakkai Kiyou|year=1922|publisher=Meiji Seitoku Kinen Gakkai|volume=17|pages=12–13|url=http://www.mkc.gr.jp/seitoku/vol.1-20.htm}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://www.mkc.gr.jp/seitoku/vol.1-20.htm&ei=f_spTdGgJ8au8gPDxKS7Ag&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCIQ7gEwAQ&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522Poems%2BMade%2Bon%2Bthe%2BRoyal%2BVisit%2Bof%2BJito%2BTenno%2Bto%2Bthe%2BShrine%2Bof%2BYoshino%2Bby%2BHitomaro%2522%26num%3D100%26hl%3Den%26newwindow%3D1%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den%26prmd%3Divns|title=Foundation Corporate Meizi Isao Satoshi Memorial Society Bulletin Table of Contents Article 1 Volume ( Taisyou 3 Year ) – Article 20 Volume ( Taisyou 12 Year )|work=Google Translation of citation|publisher=Meiji Seitoku Kinen Gakkai (Meiji Japan Society)|access-date=9 January 2011}}</ref>
*{{cite book|last1=Jefferies|first1=Richard|last2=Speight|first2=E E|title=The Story of My Heart (Waga Kokoro No Ki)|publisher=Kenkyusha Limited|isbn=978-4-327-01086-7}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://webcatplus.nii.ac.jp/webcatplus/details/book/isbn/9784327010867.html?txt_isbn=9784327010867|title=The story of my heart|publisher=Webcat Plus|language=ja|access-date=10 January 2011|quote=by Richard Jefferies; with introduction & notes by E.E. Speight}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[1934 in poetry]]
*[[James Murdoch (Scottish journalist)|James Murdoch]]

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=E. E. Speight |sopt=t}}

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