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Furnivall or Furnival is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Frederick James Furnivall (1825–1910), co-creator of the New English Dictionary * Kate Furnivall British historical novelist * Percy Furnivall (1868–1938), British surgeon * John Sydenham Furnivall (1878–1960), British civil servant in Burma * Gerard de Furnival Gerard de Furnival (c.1175–1219) was a Norman knight and Lord of Hallamshire (now part of Sheffield, England) and Worksop. De Furnival's father was also called Gerard de Furnival, and had fought with Richard I at the Siege of Acre. De Furni ...

Frederick James Furnivall
Frederick James Furnivall (4 February 1825 – 2 July 1910) was an English philologist, best known as one of the co-creators of the ''New English Dictionary''. He founded a number of learned societies on early English literature and made pioneering and massive editorial contributions to the subject, of which the most notable was his parallel text edition of ''The Canterbury Tales''. He was one of the founders of and teachers at the London Working Men's College and a lifelong campaigner against injustice. Life Frederick James Furnivall was born on 4 February 1825 in Egham, Surrey, the son of a surgeon who had made his fortune from running the Great Fosters lunatic asylum. He was educated at University College, London, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he took an undistinguished mathematics degree. He was called to the bar from Lincoln's Inn in 1849 and practised desultorily until 1870. In 1862 Furnivall married Eleanor Nickel Dalziel ( – 1937). Some authors describe h ...
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Kate Furnivall
Kate Furnivall is a British historical novelist who is well known for the debut novel, '' The Russian Concubine''. Early life Furnivall was born to an English father and White Russian mother. She grew up with a twin sister, an older brother and a sister, with the four children raised in Penarth, a small seaside town in Wales, United Kingdom (UK). Furnivall's mother's own childhood was spent in Russia, China and India, and it was her mother who inspired Furnivall to write. Career Furnivall's first novel, ''The Russian Concubine'', is based on her mother's life and was written following the latter's death in 2000 (a request to document Furnivall's mother's life came from the author's family in the wake of the passing). Furnivall has cited the origins of her writing career in the prolific oeuvre of her husband, also an author, who has written under the pseudonym A pseudonym (; ) or alias () is a fictitious name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose, which ...
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Percy Furnivall
Percy Furnivall FRCS (5 April 1868 – 3 May 1938) was a British colorectal surgeon who was a champion cyclist in the 1880s and wrote an early book on athletic performance, ''Physical Training for High Speed Competitions'', that was published in 1888. He was Hunterian professor of pathology and surgery, assistant surgeon to the Metropolitan Hospital, surgeon to St Mark's Hospital for Diseases of the Rectum and assistant surgeon to the London Hospital. In 1903 he operated on John Long to repair a knife wound to the chest in what has been described as the first known case of heart surgery in Britain. He retired early due to ill-health and died of throat cancer in 1938 having prompted a debate in the columns of the '' British Medical Journal'' about the merits of surgery compared to X-rays and radium in the treatment of cancer. Early life and family Percy Furnivall was born in London on 5 April 1868 to Frederick James Furnivall and Eleanor Nickel Dalziel.
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John Sydenham Furnivall
John Sydenham Furnivall (often cited as JS Furnivall or J.S. Furnivall) was a British-born colonial public servant and writer in Burma. He is credited with coining the concept of the plural society and had a noted career as an influential historian of Southeast Asia, particularly of the Dutch East Indies (modern-day Indonesia) and British Burma. He published several books over a long career, including the influential ''Colonial Policy and Practice'' and wrote for more than 20 major journals, although his work is now criticized as being Eurocentric and biased in favor of continued colonialism. Biography Furnivall was born on 14 February 1878 in Great Bentley, Essex in England. For secondary schooling, he attended the Royal Medical Benevolent College (now Epsom College). He won a scholarship to Trinity Hall, Cambridge University in 1896. Four years later, in 1899, he obtained a degree in natural science. In 1901, he joined the Indian Civil Service. He arrived in Burma on 16 D ...
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