William Archibald Spooner was a British clergyman and long-serving Oxford don. He was most notable for his absent-mindedness, and for supposedly mixing up the syllables in a spoken phrase, with unintentionally comic effect. Such phrases became known as spoonerisms, and are often used humorously. Many spoonerisms have been invented and attributed to Spooner.
- Occupation
- university teacher, Anglican priest, college head
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Born
- July 22, 1844, 1844
- Died
- August 29, 1930, 1930
