William Morfill, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

William Morfill

Professor of Russian and the other Slavonic languages at the University of Oxford

Date of Birth: 17-Nov-1834

Place of Birth: Maidstone, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 11-Nov-1909

Profession: historian, linguist

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

William Richard Morfill FBA (17 November 1834 – 9 November 1909) was Professor of Russian and the other Slavonic languages at the University of Oxford from 1900 until his death.
He was the first professor of Russian in Britain, and his house in North Oxford was marked with a commemorative blue plaque by the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board in 2009.