Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
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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.{{Cite book|title=Endowments of the University of Cambridge|publisher=University of Cambridge Press|year=1904|editor-last=Willis Clark|editor-first=John|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XzA9AAAAIAAJ&dq=Elrington+and+Bosworth&pg=PA228|pages= 228}} It was named after its creator and his wife, Anne Elliot, ex-wife of Colonel Hamilton Elrington.{{Cite web|url=http://www.waterstratford.org.uk/joseph-bosworth|title=Joseph Bosworth - Water Stratford|website=www.waterstratford.org.uk|access-date=2018-11-02}} 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){{Cite web|url=http://oed.hertford.ox.ac.uk/main/content/view/354/390/index.html|title=Examining the OED - Skeat, W. W.|last=Brewer|first=Charlotte|website=oed.hertford.ox.ac.uk|access-date=2018-11-02}}
- Hector Munro Chadwick (1912–1941)
- Bruce Dickins (1946–1957)
- Dorothy Whitelock (1957–1969){{Cite web|url=http://www.oenewsletter.org/OEN/print.php/memorials/whitelock/subsidia.php|title=In Memoriam: Dorothy Whitelock (1901-82)|website=www.oenewsletter.org|language=en|access-date=2018-11-02}}
- Peter Alan Martin Clemoes (1969–1982)
- Raymond Ian Page (1984–1991){{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9158876/Professor-Raymond-Page.html|title=Professor Raymond Page|date=2012-03-21|work=The Telegraph|access-date=2018-11-02|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}}
- Michael Lapidge (1991–1999)
- Simon Douglas Keynes (1999–2019)
- Rosalind Love (2019–present){{Cite web|url=https://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/news/2018/11/02/2285/|title=Elrington and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon {{!}} Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic|website=www.asnc.cam.ac.uk|language=en-US|access-date=2018-11-02}}
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Anglo-Saxon, Elrington and Bosworth
Category:School of Arts and Humanities, University of Cambridge
Category:1878 establishments in England