Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
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The Elrington and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon is the senior professorship in Anglo-Saxon
at the University of Cambridge
.
The chair was founded in 1878 when an earlier gift from Joseph Bosworth
, Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford
, had increased in value sufficiently to support a stipend of £500 a year. It was named after its creator and his wife, Anne Elliot, ex-wife of Colonel Hamilton Elrington.
Old English language
Old English or Anglo-Saxon is an early form of the English language that was spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons and their descendants in parts of what are now England and southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century...
at the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
.
The chair was founded in 1878 when an earlier gift from Joseph Bosworth
Joseph Bosworth
Joseph Bosworth , English scholar of Anglo-Saxon language and Anglo-Saxon literature, was born in Derbyshire.-Biography:Educated at Repton, whence he proceeded to the University of Aberdeen, he became in 1817 vicar of Little Horwood, Buckinghamshire, and devoted his spare time to literature and...
, Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford
University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
, had increased in value sufficiently to support a stipend of £500 a year. It was named after its creator and his wife, Anne Elliot, ex-wife of Colonel Hamilton Elrington.
Elrington and Bosworth Professors
- Walter William SkeatWalter William SkeatWalter William Skeat , English philologist, was born in London on the 21st of November 1835, and educated at King's College School , Highgate School, and Christ's College, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow in July 1860. His grandsons include the noted palaeographer T. C...
(1878) - Hector Munro ChadwickHector Munro ChadwickHector Munro Chadwick was an English philologist and historian, professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Cambridge . He helped develop an integral approach to Old English studies. With his wife, Nora Kershaw Chadwick, he compiled a multi-volume survey of oral traditions and oral poetry,...
(1912-1941) - Bruce DickinsBruce DickinsBruce Dickins FBA was Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, Cambridge University, from January 1946 until September 1957, afterwards Emeritus Professor; and Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge from 1946...
(1946) - Dorothy WhitelockDorothy WhitelockDorothy Whitelock was an English historian. Her best-known work is English Historical Documents, vol. I: c. 500-1042, which she edited...
(1957) - Peter Alan Martin Clemoes (1969-1982)
- Raymond Ian PageRaymond Ian PageRaymond Ian Page is a British historian of Anglo-Saxon England and the Viking Age, and a renowned runologist who has specialized in the study of Anglo-Saxon runes. In 1984 he was appointed Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Cambridge, and he has also been the...
(1984) - Michael LapidgeMichael LapidgeMichael Lapidge D.Litt. is a Canadian historical linguist, fellow of Clare College, Cambridge and Fellow of the British Academy A lecturer in Anglo-Saxon studies at Cambridge from 1974 onwards, Lapidge was Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon from 1991 to 1998...
(1991) - Simon Douglas KeynesSimon KeynesSimon Douglas Keynes MA, PhD, Litt.D, FBA is the current Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic at Cambridge University.-Biography:...
(1999)