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William Archibald Spooner, British clergyman and academic, 1898. Spooner (1844-1930) had a 60 year association with Oxford University lecturing on ancient history and philosophy, and attaining the post of Warden of New College in 1903. He was an albino, of very short stature, and suffered from poor eyesight. The slips of the tongue known as Spoonerisms (matathesis) are named after him due to the apparent frequency with which he made them. Cartoon from Vanity Fair, London, 1898.