Until his death in April 2000, George Chowdharay-Best was a familiar figure in the reading rooms of the British Library. For many years he was on the staff of the Oxford English Dictionary, rising to be a Senior Assistant Editor. While most of his scholarly work was subsumed in this great collaborative enterprise, he produced papers on many subjects for a range of journals and was also a frequent letter writer to the press. A summary of his life and career is followed by a complete bibliography of his writings
