Sir Ernest Gowers
Details
Birth Date 1880
Death Date 1966
Personal Name Gowers, Ernest
Alternate Names
- Ernest Arthur Gowers, Sir G.C.B.
- Ernest Gowers, Sir
- Ernest Gowers
- Gowers, Ernest Arthur Sir
- Ernest Arthur, Sir Gowers
A senior British civil servant, Sir Ernest Gowers was the author of both Plain words (1948) and The ABC of plain words (1951). These two works he later combined and revised as The complete plain words (1954). He went on to revise H. W. Fowler's evergreen work Modern English usage (1965).