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He had numerous half-siblings, among them Thomas T. His parents were Congregational church missionaries from New England. Minor was born in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), the son of Eastman Strong Minor and his first wife, Lucy Bailey. Minor was hospitalized in Connecticut, where he died in 1920. In 1910, responding to protests about Minor's treatment, Winston Churchill, then British home secretary, ordered Minor deported to the United States. He was one of the project's most effective volunteers, reading through his large personal library of antiquarian books and compiling quotations that illustrated how particular words were used. While incarcerated, Minor became an important contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary. Affected by delusions, he shot a man who he believed had broken into his room, and was consequently committed from 1872 to 1910 to a secure British psychiatric hospital. Minor 22 June 1834 – 26 March 1920), was an American army surgeon, psychiatric-hospital patient, and lexicographical researcher.Īfter serving in the Union Army during the American Civil War, Minor moved to England. Contributions to the Oxford English Dictionary