"approaching army of goblins and wargs. The dwarves, men and elves band together, but only with the timely arrival of the eagles and Beorn do they win the climactic Battle of Five Armies. Thorin is fatally wounded and reconciles with Bilbo before he dies. Bilbo accepts only a small portion of his share of the treasure, having no want or need for more, but still returns home a very wealthy hobbit. In the early 1930s Tolkien was pursuing an academic career at Oxford as Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, with a fellowship at Pembroke College. Several of his poems"
"a mass of annotations on the Anglo-Saxon charters and was buried on 2 June 1876 in Water Stratford churchyard. Income from his estate was left to various relatives for their lifetimes but as they died it was added to the endowment of his Oxford professorship. Bosworth was succeeded by John Earle (1824–1903) and Arthur Sampson Napier (1853–1916). In 1916, the chair was renamed to Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in honour of Bosworth and his endowment, the first ""Rawlinson and Bosworth"" professor being Sir William Alexander Craigie (1867–1957), who in 1925 moved to a post at the University of"
"of Eynsham and medieval theatre. He is currently an editor of the academic journal ""Anglo-Saxon England"". He was elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 2009. Malcolm Godden Malcolm Reginald Godden, FBA (born 9 October 1945) is a British academic who held the chair of the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford from 1991 until 2013. From 1963 to 1966 he studied for a B.A. in English; he then continued with several postgraduate studies until 1969. In 1970 he obtained a Ph.D. from Cambridge University for a dissertation which was an edition of Ælfric's"
"the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries. Cutting the Society of Antiquaries from his bequests, he began transferring his collections to the Bodleian. A series of almanacs in 175 volumes, ranging in date from 1607 to 1747 arrived in 1752-55. At his death, Rawlinson left to the Library 5,205 manuscripts bound in volumes that include many rare broadsides and other printed ephemera, his curiosities, and some other property that endowed a professorship of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University. The Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon was first appointed in 1795. He was also a benefactor to St John's College, Oxford. Richard Rawlinson"
"An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary is a dictionary of Old English, a language that is also known as Anglo-Saxon. Four editions of the dictionary were published. It has often (especially in earlier times) been considered the definitive lexicon for Old English. It is often referred to by the names of its compilers, for example ""Bosworth"" or ""Bosworth & Toller"". This was written by Joseph Bosworth, who in 1858 became the Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford: the post was renamed in 1916 as the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon, in Bosworth's honour. While being attributed"
"Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language"" (1838), his best-known work. Thomas Northcote Toller later compiled a new edition of the dictionary based on Bosworth's work, both printed and in manuscript, and added a supplement (2 vols. 1898-1921). The University of Aberdeen granted him a LL.D. in 1838 on the recommendation of Alexander Crombie (see above) and Thomas Orger. In 1858 Bosworth became Rector of Water Stratford, Buckinghamshire, and Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford. He gave £10,000 to the University of Cambridge in 1867 for the establishment of the professorship of Anglo-Saxon. He died on 27 May 1876 leaving behind him"
"of Anglo-Saxon (in which capacity she supervised Simon Keynes, who himself became the Elrington and Bosworth Professor between 1999-2018). Under her direction, the 'Department of Anglo-Saxon and Kindred Studies' relocated in 1967 from the Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology to the Faculty of English and became the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic. A photograph of her hangs on the wall there. Whitelock retired in 1969. Dorothy Whitelock Dorothy Whitelock, (11 November 1901 – 14 August 1982) was an English historian. From 1957 to 1969, she was the Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Cambridge. Her"
"Malcolm Godden Malcolm Reginald Godden, FBA (born 9 October 1945) is a British academic who held the chair of the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford from 1991 until 2013. From 1963 to 1966 he studied for a B.A. in English; he then continued with several postgraduate studies until 1969. In 1970 he obtained a Ph.D. from Cambridge University for a dissertation which was an edition of Ælfric's Second Series of ""Catholic Homilies"" under the supervision of Professor P. A. M. Clemoes. His academic appointments include: His interests include: Alfredian prose, Wulfstan of York, Ælfric"
"issue 10 December 1858, aged 91 years. He was buried at Cheshunt. Charles Mayo (Anglo-Saxon scholar) Charles Mayo (1767–1858) was an English clergyman and professor of Anglo-Saxon. Born in London 24 March 1767, he was second son of Herbert Mayo, D.D. (1720–1802), by his wife Mary, daughter of George Coldham, surgeon extraordinary to the Prince of Wales. Charles was admitted to Merchant Taylors' School, 1776, and elected to St John's College, Oxford, 1785, where he became Fellow in 1788. He graduated M.A. 1793, and B.D. 1796. In 1795 he was elected the first Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon, being the first"
"Charles Mayo (Anglo-Saxon scholar) Charles Mayo (1767–1858) was an English clergyman and professor of Anglo-Saxon. Born in London 24 March 1767, he was second son of Herbert Mayo, D.D. (1720–1802), by his wife Mary, daughter of George Coldham, surgeon extraordinary to the Prince of Wales. Charles was admitted to Merchant Taylors' School, 1776, and elected to St John's College, Oxford, 1785, where he became Fellow in 1788. He graduated M.A. 1793, and B.D. 1796. In 1795 he was elected the first Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon, being the first to hold the Oxford position, which had a tenure of five years."
"his wife. He befriended many of the great Norse philologists of the time and came across séra Einar Guðmundsson's seventeenth-century Skotlands rímur, dealing with the Gowrie Conspiracy. He continued research in that field till the end of his life. William Craigie Sir William Alexander Craigie (13 August 1867 – 2 September 1957) was a philologist and a lexicographer. A graduate of the University of St Andrews, he was the third editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and co-editor (with C. T. Onions) of the 1933 supplement. From 1916 to 1925 he was also Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in"
"1837, and travelled to Moscow, where he was arrested and suffered a short detention for visiting the Kremlin without an official order. His edition of the ""Ormulum"" was issued in 1852 from the university press, and in the following year an elaborate criticism of it was published in English by C. H. Monicke, a German professor. Robert Meadows White Robert Meadows White (1798–1865) was an English cleric and academic, holding the office of Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University from 1834. Born on 8 January 1798, he was the eldest son of Robert Gostling White (died 18"
"Anglo-Saxon archaeology at Trinity College, and Joseph Bosworth, another Anglo-Saxonist who was associated with Trinity, endowed the Elrington and Bosworth Chair in Anglo-Saxon, established in 1878, and first held by Walter William Skeat. Strengths at Cambridge in Old Norse were built up by Eiríkur Magnússon (1833–1913) and in Celtic studies by Edmund Crosby Quiggin (1875–1920). The ASNaC Department as such has its origins in the work and ideas of Skeat's successor as Elrington and Bosworth Professor, Hector Munro Chadwick, of Clare College. Chadwick took a leading role in integrating the philological study of Old English with archaeology and history and,"
"Robert Meadows White Robert Meadows White (1798–1865) was an English cleric and academic, holding the office of Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University from 1834. Born on 8 January 1798, he was the eldest son of Robert Gostling White (died 18 October 1828), a solicitor at Halesworth in Suffolk, by his second wife, Elizabeth Meadows (died 25 September 1831); the solicitor John Meadows White was his younger brother. In 1813 Robert was sent to school under John Valpy at Norwich, where John Lindley the botanist, and ""Rajah"" James Brooke, were his fellow pupils. On 26 July 1815"
"Oxford from 1945 to 1950 and William Nobel Research Fellow in English Literature at the University of Liverpool from 1950 to 1952. He was later a member of the Council of the University of Liverpool, from 1964 to 1971. Roger Lancelyn Green Roger Gilbert Lancelyn Green (2 November 1918 – 8 October 1987) was a British biographer and children's writer. He was an Oxford academic who formed part of the Inklings literary discussion group along with C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. Roger Lancelyn Green was born in 1918 in Norwich, England, to Major Gilbert Arthur Lancelyn Green"
"Charles Tomlinson Alfred Charles Tomlinson, CBE (8 January 1927 – 22 August 2015) was a British poet, translator, academic and illustrator. He was born in Penkhull, and grew up in Basford, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. After attending Longton High School, Tomlinson read English at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he studied with Donald Davie. After leaving university he taught for several years in Camden Town, London, followed by a brief period as secretary to Percy Lubbock in Italy, before returning to London as an M.A. student at London University. He taught for thirty-six years in the English Department of Bristol University where he"
"Andy Orchard Andrew Philip McDowell ""Andy"" Orchard, FRSC, FBA (born 27 February 1964) is a British academic in Old English, Norse and Celtic literature. He is Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. He was previously Provost of Trinity College, University of Toronto from 2007 to 2013. Orchard was born on 27 February 1964 in North London, England. He was educated at University College School, then an all-boys independent school in London. His undergraduate degree was undertaken at both Queens' College, Cambridge, where he read Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic"
"said of him ""A man of many friends, he was an excellent talker, full of geniality and good stories"". His books were sold in two sales at Sotheby's, in February 1893 and April 1894, for a total of £9,420. William Edward Buckley William Edward Buckley (1817 – 18 March 1892) was a Church of England clergyman, an academic who taught both classical languages and Old English, and also a journalist. He was Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford from 1844 to 1849. Buckley was the fourth son of Joseph Buckley (died 1858), of the Crescent, Salford, and"
"George Rawlinson George Rawlinson (23 November 1812 – 6 October 1902) was a 19th-century English scholar, historian, and Christian theologian. Rawlinson was born at Chadlington, Oxfordshire, the son of Abram Tysack Rawlinson and the younger brother of the famous Assyriologist, Sir Henry Rawlinson. He was educated at Ealing school. Having taken his degree at the University of Oxford (from Trinity College) in 1838, he was elected to a fellowship at Exeter College, Oxford, in 1840, of which from 1842 to 1846 he was fellow and tutor. He was ordained in 1841, was curate at Merton, Oxfordshire from 1846 to 1847,"
"and ""Memorials of Oxford"" (3 volumes, 1832 to 1837) with 100 illustrations by John Le Keux. He died at Trinity College on 4 September 1850, and left his books, pictures and coins to the College and Oxford University. James Ingram (academic) James Ingram (21 December 1774 – 4 September 1850) was an English academic at the University of Oxford, who was Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon from 1803 to 1808 and President of Trinity College, Oxford from 1824 until his death. Ingram was born on 21 December 1774 in the Wiltshire village of Codford St Mary. He was educated at Lord"
"Langworth in 1882. O'Donnell died at Hans Crescent, London, in December 1934. His legacy includes the commission of the lectures named after him at Oxford University, on the subject of ""British or Celtic elements in the English language or in the existing population of England"". The inaugural lecturer was J.R.R. Tolkien in 1954. Charles James O'Donnell Charles James O'Cahan O'Donnell (1849 – 3 December 1934) was an Irish colonial administrator in the British Raj, and later a member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. O'Donnell was born in Donegal in 1849. He was educated at Queens College Galway, and"
"History"". Oxford: Oxford Philatelic Society, 2016, pp. 15, 17, 33, 51. Arthur Napier Arthur Sampson Napier, FBA (30 August 1853 - 10 May 1916) was a British academic. He was Merton Professor of English Language and Literature, Oxford University from 1885 and also Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon since 1903. Napier was also a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. Arthur Napier was also an avid collector of the Oxford college stamp issues and gave talks and displays on this subject,he also wrote many articles for Gibbons Stamp Monthly on the College Stamp Issues. He was Vice President of the Oxford Philatelic"
"Scandinavian Student at Uppsala (1927–29), and the first woman to receive the Allen Scholarship at Cambridge (1929–30) These labours led to her first book, her 1930 translation and commentary on thirty nine Anglo-Saxon wills. In the same year, she became a lecturer in English language at St Hilda's College, Oxford (tutor in 1935, full fellow 1937, vice principal 1951). In 1940, she was elected a Leverhulme Fellow and in 1946 became a University Lecturer in Old English at Oxford. In 1957, she returned to Cambridge, and Newnham, as the Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon. Notwithstanding these successes, throughout her"
"for global history. Christopher Bayly Sir Christopher Alan Bayly, FBA, FRSL (18 May 1945 – 18 April 2015) was a British historian specializing in British Imperial, Indian and global history. From 1992 to 2013, he was Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge. Bayly was from Tunbridge Wells, England, where he attended The Skinners School. He studied at Balliol College, Oxford and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. He then remained at the University of Oxford and undertook post-graduate study at St Antony's College, Oxford. He completed his Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil)"
"he compiled a multi-volume survey of oral traditions and oral poetry, published 1932–1940. In this he further developed the theory of a Heroic Age which he had previously stated in a publication of 1912. He was born in Thornhill, West Yorkshire, and was educated at Wakefield Grammar School and Clare College, Cambridge. He was Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Cambridge from 1912 to 1941 and has, since 1990, been commemorated by the annual H. M. Chadwick Lecture in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic. In 2015 he was the subject of the scholarly article"
"1883. Illingworth died on 22 August 1915 in Longworth, aged 67, and was buried at St Mary's Church. J. R. Illingworth John Richardson Illingworth (1848–1915) was an English Anglican priest, philosopher, and theologian. He was a notable member of the set of liberal Anglo-Catholic theologians based in Oxford and he contributed two chapters to the influential ""Lux Mundi"". Illingworth was born in London on 26 June 1848 to an Anglo-Catholic family, the second son of Edward Arthur Illingworth (1807–1883), chaplain to Middlesex House of Correction, and his wife, Mary Taylor. He was educated at St Paul's School, in London. As"
"of the Exeter College community at Oxford and regularly attended its lunches and alumni events. He died on 15 August 2018. John Shipley Rowlinson Sir John Shipley Rowlinson (12 May 1926 – 15 August 2018) was a British chemist. He attended Oxford University where he completed his undergraduate studies in 1948 and doctoral in 1950. He then became research associate at University of Wisconsin (1950–1951), lecturer at University of Manchester (1951–1961), Professor at Imperial College London (1961–1973) and back at Oxford from 1974 to his retirement in 1993. His works covered a wide range of subjects, including on capillarity—the tendency"
"works on William Shakespeare, Robert Burns and the Elizabethan theatre, editor of the Cambridge and Tudor editions of Shakespeare (1906, 1911) and editor of ""Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition"" (1934). Less known is his translation of the famous late 14th century Middle English alliterative chivalric romance ""Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"". William Allan Neilson William Allan Neilson (28 March 1869 – 1946) was a Scottish-American educator, writer and lexicographer, graduated in the University of Edinburgh in 1891 and became a Ph.D. in Harvard University in 1898. He was president of Smith College between 1917 and 1939. Neilson was"
"John Bayley (writer) John Oliver Bayley, CBE, FBA, FRSL (27 March 1925 – 12 January 2015) was a British literary critic and writer. He was Warton Professor of English at the University of Oxford from 1974 to 1992, and the husband of the writer Iris Murdoch. Bayley was born in Lahore, British India, and educated at Eton, where he studied under G. W. Lyttelton, who also taught Aldous Huxley, J. B. S. Haldane, George Orwell and Cyril Connolly. After leaving Eton, he went on to take a degree at New College, Oxford. From 1974 to 1992, Bayley was Warton Professor"
"Robert Howard Hodgkin Robert Howard Hodgkin (24 April 1877 – 28 June 1951) was a historian of modern history at Queen's College in Oxford, and served as its provost from 1937 until 1946. In 1900 he was named a lecturer of modern history at the college, and from 1928 to 1934 was the ""University lecturer"" in that subject. His seminal work, ""A History of the Anglo-Saxons"", was published in 1935, and in his retirement he also saw published ""Six centuries of an Oxford college: a history of the Queen's College, 1340–1940"". Hodgkin was part of a family of historians; his"
"Raymond Gosling Raymond George Gosling (15 July 1926 – 18 May 2015) was a British scientist. While a PhD student at King's College, London he worked under the supervision of Rosalind Franklin. Their crystallographic experiments, together with those of Maurice Wilkins of the same laboratory, produced data that helped James Watson and Francis Crick to infer the structure of DNA. He was born in 1926 and attended school in Wembley. He studied physics at University College London from 1944 to 1947 and became a hospital physicist at the King's Fund and Middlesex Hospital between 1947 and 1949 before joining King's"
"the time of the Anglo Saxons and earlier. He and R. G. Collingwood wrote the first volume of the ""Oxford History of England"" which was widely recognised as a classic. When the series was re-released in the 1980s this volume was split in two, Peter Salway writing what had been Collingwood's part and Myres rewriting his own part at an impressively advanced age. Nowell Myres John Nowell Linton Myres CBE (27 December 1902 - 25 September 1989) was a British archaeologist and Bodley's Librarian at the Bodleian Library in Oxford from 1948 until his resignation in 1965; and librarian of"
"University of Oxford. He was a very close friend of over the years with many individuals he met in the course of his career. Danny Kaye who would come to London with Jerry Lewis and appear in special UNICEF performances. He carried on constant communications with friends and associates such as Gareth Evans, Paul Keating and Rupert Murdoch and much earlier his mentor James Joyce these documents all reside at the Bodleian Library. George Ivan Smith George Ivan Smith AO (1915–1995) career spanned radio, war correspondent, movie director, diplomat, poet and author. He was born 11 July 1915 George Charles"