Thomas Northcote Toller

Thomas Northcote Toller (1844–1930) was the first professor of English language at Manchester and one of the editors of An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary^[1] which had been begun by Joseph Bosworth. He was appointed to the chair in 1880 and retired in 1903.^[2] The annual Toller Lecture, which commemorates his achievements, is held in Manchester.

Professor Thomas Northcote Toller
Born	1844 Kettering, England
Died	1930
Academic work
Discipline	Old English
Institutions	University of Manchester

Biography

Toller was born in Kettering, to Caroline (née Wallis) and Joseph Toller.^[1]

In 1880 he was appointed as Chair of English Language at the University of Manchester, and he retired in 1903.^[1]

References

1. "Textual and Material Culture in Anglo-Saxon England: Thomas Northcote Toller and the Toller Memorial Lectures". Retrieved 14 September 2010.
2. Charlton, H. B. (1951) Portrait of a University, 1851--1951. Manchester: Manchester University Press; p. 172

External links

• , scanned page images and OCRed text. From the Germanic Lexicon Project.
• , scanned page images. Digitized under the direction of Sean Crist.
• Thomas Northcote Toller at the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography