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John Richards, bulwark for the apostrophe against grammatical ‘barbarians,’ dies at 97 Emily Langer © Family photo “I think that grammar is a valued part of our civilization,” John Richards declared. “I don’t like any attempt to diminish it.” John Richards, a British newspaperman who attracted a flurry of international attention when he founded and later resignedly disbanded the Apostrophe Protection Society, a self-styled bulwark against the “barbarians” laying waste to a humble yet essential element of the English language, died March 30 at a hospital in Boston, a town in Lincolnshire, England. He was 97. The cause was sepsis, said his son, Stephen Richards. Mr. Richards’s death even some copy editors might disagree on the preferred possessive form of his surname, whether “Richards’s” or “Richards’ ” was previously reported in publications including the Boston Standard and the Lincolnite of Lincolnshire.

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