Dormer, John

Notes

“Thalassa Chrusou” (“sea of gold”) = Dormer (“d’or mer”).

Biographical sources

Sarah Ogilvie, The Dictionary People (2023) 133–43); Gilliver, “OED Personalia”: reader and sub-editor of the OED, institutionalized for mental illness in 1907

Articles

• Dictionary of National Biography': Notes and Corrections, writing as Thalassa Chrusou — NQ 7.11.163