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. 'Bosworth' was added to commemorate Joseph Bosworth.

[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 Leslie 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

• List of Professorships at the University of Oxford

[edit] Sources

• The Historical Register of the University of Oxford. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1888