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Kay Williamson (Ruth Margaret Williamson) was born on 26 January, 1935 in Hereford, England, United Kingdom, is a British linguist. Discover Kay Williamson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?

Popular As Ruth Margaret Williamson
Occupation Linguist
Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 26 January 1935
Birthday 26 January
Birthplace Hereford, England, United Kingdom
Date of death 2005
Died Place Brazil
Nationality United Kingdom

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Parents Harry Williamson Harriett Eileen Williamson
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1935

Kay Williamson (January 26, 1935, Hereford, United Kingdom – January 3, 2005, Brazil), born Ruth Margaret Williamson, was a linguist who specialised in the study of African languages, particularly those of the Niger Delta in Nigeria, where she lived for nearly fifty years.

She has been called "The Mother of Nigerian Linguistics" and is also notable for proposing the Pan-Nigerian alphabet.

Professor Kay Williamson was born in Hereford, England, where she lived for the first 18 years of her life.

She was the eldest of six children.

Her father, Alfred Henry Williamson, also known as Harry, was the founder of Wyevale Nurseries.

Her father and mother, Harriett Eileen Williamson, turned the Wyevale nurseries into one of the largest garden center chains in Europe.

1956

Williamson was educated at Hereford girls' high school and St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she took a BA in English in 1956, followed by an MA in 1960.

Her many publications include a grammar and dictionary of the Ijo language, a dictionary of Igbo and numerous articles on diverse topics.

Kay Williamson was known for her concern for social responsibility in linguistics.

She was totally convinced that a linguist must help speakers of the languages of her research to produce texts in their languages.

She devoted a substantial part of her time to the Rivers Readers Project, an exercise designed to introduce reading and writing in primary schools in about 20 dialects or languages in the predominantly Ijo-speaking area.

As a byproduct, several books (including primers, readers, teachers' notes, spelling manuals, and collection of folk-tales) were compiled by Williamson and her collaborators.

1990

Williamson was brought up as a Methodist but became a Quaker in the early 1990s, and subsequently took peace activism very seriously.

2002

In 2002, she was appointed UNESCO Professor of Cultural Heritage, University of Port Harcourt, a position she held until her death.

Her unpublished work is being edited by Roger Blench.

2005

She died at the age of 69 in Brazil on 3 January 2005.

The Kay Williamson Educational Foundation has been established to support to support work in Nigerian languages.