On completion of the OED, the universities of Oxford, Leeds, and Birmingham conferred honorary degrees upon him.
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Born in Edgbaston, Birmingham, the son of a designer and embosser of metal, Onions early came under the influence of A. J. Smith, the headmaster of the King Edward VI Camp Hill School, where Onions received his first contact with lexicography.
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