Oliver Padel

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Oliver James Padel, an authority on the origin and meaning of place-names, currently Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic in the University of Cambridge [1] and Visiting Professor of Celtic at the University of the West of England.

He was born in 1948. He was a founding member of staff of the Institute of Cornish Studies (in the Charles Thomas era), until around 1991, when he moved to Cambridge.

He is President of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland [2], and of the English Place-Name Society. He edits the Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall. He is a Member of Council of the Devon and Cornwall Record Society [3].

[edit] Publications

  • Arthur in medieval Welsh literature ( Writers of Wales series); Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2000. ISBN 0708316824 (pbk) 0708316891 (hbk)
  • The Cornish lands of the Arundells of Lanherne, fourteenth to sixteenth centuries / edited by H.S.A. Fox and O.J. Padel. (Devon and Cornwall Record Society. New series ; v. 41) ;Exeter : Devon and Cornwall Record Society, 2000. ISBN 0901853410 (pbk.)
  • Cornish place-name elements ( English Place-Name Society series, v.56/57); Nottingham : English Place-Name Society, 1985. ISBN 0904889114 : No price
  • The Cornish writings of the Boson family. Nicholas, Thomas and John Boson, of Newlyn: circa 1660 to 1730. Edited with translations and notes by O. J. Padel; Redruth: Institute of Cornish Studies, 1975. ISBN 0903686090
  • Domesday book / text and translation edited by John Morris. 10, Cornwall / edited by Caroline and Frank Thorn from a draft translation prepared by Oliver Padel (History from the sources series); Chichester : Phillimore, 1979. ISBN 0850331560 (hbk) 0850331552 (pbk)
  • Royal Institution of Cornwall: Exhibition of manuscripts and printed books on the Cornish language (15th c.-1904). [Compiled by O. J. Padel.]; [Redruth:] Institute of Cornish Studies, 1975.Note: Arranged in association with the 5th International Congress of Celtic Studies, held at Penzance.
  • A map of the county of Cornwall, 1699 / Joel Gascoyne ; reprinted in facsimile with an introduction by W. L. D. Ravenhill and O. J. Padel (Devon and Cornwall Record Society : new series ; vol. 34.); Exeter : Devon and Cornwall Record Society, 1991.
  • A medieval Cornish miscellany / W.M.M. Picken ; edited by O.J. Padel; Chichester : Phillimore, 2000. ISBN 1860770983
  • A popular dictionary of Cornish place-names; Penzance : A. Hodge, 1988. ISBN 090672015X
  • Thomas, Charles, (1928- ) A provisional list of imported pottery in post-Roman Western Britain & Ireland / Charles Thomas ; (with an appendix on Tintagel by O.J. Padel) (Special report ; no.7); Redruth : Institute of Cornish Studies, 1981. ISBN 0903686333

[edit] References and notes

  1. ^ Cambridge University directory of Research Staff.
  2. ^ Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland website
  3. ^ Genuki's account of the Devon and Cornwall Record Society
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NAME Padel, Oliver
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SHORT DESCRIPTION Academic - Place-name studies
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