Life Early life Minor was born in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), the son of Eastman Strong Minor and his first wife, Lucy Bailey. His parents were Congregational church missionaries from New England. He had numerous half-siblings, among them Thomas T. Minor, mayor of Seattle, Washington. At age 14, he was sent to the United States, where he lived with relatives in New Haven while attending Russell Military Academy. He subsequently enrolled at Yale Medical School, supporting himself during his years as a medical student with part-time employment as an instructor at the Russell Academy and as an assistant on the 1864 revision of Webster's Dictionary,Kendall, Joshua. "A Minor Exception", The Nation, April 4, 2011. then in preparation at Yale under the supervision of Noah Porter. Minor graduated in 1863 with a medical degree and a specialization in comparative anatomy. After a brief stint at Knight General Hospital in New Haven he joined the Union Army. Move to England and conviction for murder The "Lion Brewery" where Minor shot George Merrett In 1871, Minor went to London for a change of pace to help his mental condition. In 1872 he was living in Tenison Street, Lambeth, where once again he took up a dissolute life. Haunted by his paranoia, he fatally shot a man named George Merrett, whom Minor wrongly believed to have broken into his room , on February 17, 1872. Merrett had been on his way to work to support his family of six children, himself, and his pregnant wife, Eliza. After a pre-trial period spent in London's Horsemonger Lane Gaol, Minor was found not guilty by reason of insanity and incarcerated at the asylum in Broadmoor in the village of Crowthorne, Berkshire. As he had his US Army pension and was not judged dangerous, he was given rather comfortable quarters and was able to buy and read books... In popular culture In July 1915, the Washington D.C. Sunday Star published a “sensationalized” story beginning with the line “American Murderer Helped Write Oxford Dictionary.” The book The Surgeon of Crowthorne (published in America as The Professor and the Madman), by Simon Winchester, was published in 1998 and chronicles both Minor's later life and his contributions to the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary. The movie rights for the book were bought by Mel Gibson's Icon Productions in 1998. In August 2016, it was announced that Farhad Safinia was to direct an adaptation, called The Professor and the Madman, starring Mel Gibson as Murray and Sean Penn as Minor. The film was released in May 2019.
 Early life Minor was born in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), the son of Eastman Strong Minor and his first wife, Lucy Bailey. His parents were Congregational church missionaries from New England. He had numerous half-siblings, among them Thomas T. Minor, mayor of Seattle, Washington. At age 14, he was sent to the United States, where he lived with relatives in New Haven while attending Russell Military Academy. He subsequently enrolled at Yale Medical School, supporting himself during his years as a medical student with part-time employment as an instructor at the Russell Academy and as an assistant on the 1864 revision of Webster's Dictionary,Kendall, Joshua. "A Minor Exception", The Nation, April 4, 2011. then in preparation at Yale under the supervision of Noah Porter. Minor graduated in 1863 with a medical degree and a specialization in comparative anatomy. After a brief stint at Knight General Hospital in New Haven he joined the Union Army. Move to England and conviction for murder The "Lion Brewery" where Minor shot George Merrett In 1871, Minor went to London for a change of pace to help his mental condition. In 1872 he was living in Tenison Street, Lambeth, where once again he took up a dissolute life. On February 17, 1872 haunted by his paranoia, he fatally shot a man named George Merrett, whom Minor wrongly believed to have broken into his room . Merrett had been on his way to work to support his family of six children, himself, and his pregnant wife, Eliza. After a pre-trial period spent in London's Horsemonger Lane Gaol, Minor was found not guilty by reason of insanity and incarcerated at the asylum in Broadmoor in the village of Crowthorne, Berkshire. As he had his US Army pension and was not judged dangerous, he was given rather comfortable quarters and was able to buy and read books... In popular culture In July 1915, the Washington D.C. Sunday Star published a "sensationalized" story beginning with the line “American Murderer Helped Write Oxford Dictionary.” The book The Surgeon of Crowthorne (published in America as The Professor and the Madman), by Simon Winchester, was published in 1998 and chronicles both Minor's later life and his contributions to the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary. The movie rights for the book were bought by Mel Gibson's Icon Productions in 1998. In August 2016, it was announced that Farhad Safinia was to direct an adaptation, called The Professor and the Madman, starring Mel Gibson as Murray and Sean Penn as Minor. The film was released in May 2019.
D
Life
R
Haunted
On February 17, 1872 haunted
R
, on February 17, 1872.
.
R
“sensationalized”
"sensationalized"