Charles Leslie Wrenn

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Charles Leslie Wrenn (1895–1969) was a British scholar. He became Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford in 1945, the successor in the chair to J.R.R. Tolkien, a post he held until 1963.

Wrenn was a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. He was also a member of the Oxford literary group known as the Inklings, including C.S. Lewis and Tolkien.

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• Fellows in the 1940s & 1950s, Pembroke College, Oxford.
• Charles Leslie Wrenn Books, Alibris.