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Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon

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.[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

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    Willis Clark, John, ed. (1904). Endowments of the University of Cambridge. University of Cambridge Press. p. 228.
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