Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon

The Elrington and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon is the senior professorship in Anglo-Saxon at the University of Cambridge.

The first chair was elected in 1878, when a gift endowed in 1867 by Joseph Bosworth, Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, had increased in value sufficiently to support a stipend of £500 a year.^[1] It was named after its creator and his wife, Anne Elliot, ex-wife of Colonel Hamilton Elrington.^[2] The professor holding this chair is traditionally the head of the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge.

Elrington and Bosworth Professors

• Walter William Skeat (1878–1912)^[3]
• Hector Munro Chadwick (1912–1941)
• Bruce Dickins (1946–1957)
• Dorothy Whitelock (1957–1969)^[4]
• Peter Alan Martin Clemoes (1969–1982)
• Raymond Ian Page (1984–1991)^[5]
• Michael Lapidge (1991–1999)
• Simon Douglas Keynes (1999–2019)
• Rosalind Love (2019–present)^[6]

References

1. Willis Clark, John, ed. (1904). Endowments of the University of Cambridge. University of Cambridge Press. p. 228.
2. "Joseph Bosworth - Water Stratford". www.waterstratford.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-11-02.
3. Brewer, Charlotte. "Examining the OED - Skeat, W. W." oed.hertford.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-11-02.
4. "In Memoriam: Dorothy Whitelock (1901-82)". www.oenewsletter.org. Retrieved 2018-11-02.
5. "Professor Raymond Page". The Telegraph. 2012-03-21. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2018-11-02.
6. "Elrington and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon | Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic". www.asnc.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-11-02.