Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon

Template:Refimprove 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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> It was named after its creator and his wife, Anne Elliot, ex-wife of Colonel Hamilton Elrington.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Hector Munro Chadwick (1912–1941)
• Bruce Dickins (1946–1957)
• Dorothy Whitelock (1957–1969)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Peter Alan Martin Clemoes (1969–1982)
• Raymond Ian Page (1984–1991)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Michael Lapidge (1991–1999)
• Simon Douglas Keynes (1999–2019)
• Rosalind Love (2019–present)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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