Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon

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The Rawlinson and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon, until 1916 known as the Rawlinsonian Professorship of Anglo-Saxon, was established by Richard Rawlinson of St. John's College, Oxford, in 1795. The Chair is associated with Pembroke College.

[edit] Holders of the Chair

  • 1795-1800 Charles Mayo (1767-1858)
  • 1800-1803 Thomas Hardcastle
  • 1803-1808 James Ingram (1774-1850)
  • 1808-1812 John Josias Conybeare (1779-1824)
  • 1812-1816 Charles Dyson (1788-1860)
  • 1817-1822 Thomas Silver (d. 1853)
  • 1822-1827 Charles John Ridley
  • 1827-1829 Arthur Johnson
  • 1829-1834 Francis Pearson Walesby (1798-1858)
  • 1834-1839 Robert Meadows White (1798-1865)
  • 1839-1844 Henry Bristow Wilson (1803-1888)
  • 1844-1849 William Edward Buckley (1817-1892)
  • 1849-1854 John Earle (1824-1903)
  • 1854-1858 vacant
  • 1858-1876 Joseph Bosworth (1789-1876)
  • 1876-1903 John Earle (1824-1903)
  • 1903-1916 Arthur Sampson Napier (1853-1916)
  • 1916-1925 Sir William Alexander Craigie (1867-1957)
  • 1925-1945 J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973)
  • 1946-1963 Charles Lesley Wrenn (1895-1969)
  • 1963-1974 Alistair Campbell (1907-1974)
  • 1974-1977 vacant
  • 1977-1991 Eric Gerald Stanley (1923- )
  • 1991- Malcolm Reginald Godden (1945- )

[edit] See also

[edit] Sources

  • The Historical Register of the University of Oxford, 1220-1900. OUP