John Richardson (1740/1741 - 1795)

John Richardson (1740/1741 – 1795), FAS of Wadham College, Oxford, was the editor of the first Persian-Arabic-English dictionary in 1778-1780. His seminal work on Persian grammar, written in collaboration with Sir William Jones, was noteworthy amongst the early works on this subject; and it remains significant in the context of that philological foundation from which all subsequent grammatical studies were to evolve.