About Fred W. P. Jago
Lived 1817 – 1911 (aged 93–94). Fred W. P. Jago was a British celticist and surgeon.
Frederick William Pearce Jago (21 December 1817 – 1 February 1911) was a Cornish doctor and scholar best known for his work The Ancient Language and the Dialect of Cornwall, originally published 1882 by Netherton and Worth of Truro. He also published a Cornish dictionary in 1887. He was born in Bodmin to William Jago and Anne Pearce and was baptised Wesleyan Methodist. He was a cousin of Dr. James Jago. He practiced medicine in Plymouth for many decades. He retired to St Germans, where he died, aged 93.
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Who was Fred W. P. Jago?
Cornish-language scholar
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Fred W. P. Jago was born in 1817 in Bodmin.
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Fred W. P. Jago died on 1 February 1911 in St Germans.
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Fred W. P. Jago was a celticist and surgeon.
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Fred W. P. Jago was British.
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