Thomas Northcote Toller (1844–1930) was the first professor of English language at
Manchester
Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...
and one of the editors of ''
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 ...
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which had been begun by
Joseph Bosworth
Joseph Bosworth (1788 – 27 May 1876) was an English scholar of the Anglo-Saxon language and compiler of the first major Anglo-Saxon dictionary.
Biography
Born in Derbyshire in 1788, Bosworth was educated at Repton School as a 'Poor Scholar' ...
. He was appointed to the chair in 1880 and retired in 1903.
[Charlton, H. B. (1951) ''Portrait of a University, 1851--1951''. Manchester: Manchester University Press; p. 172] The annual
Toller Lecture, which commemorates his achievements, is held in Manchester.
Biography
Toller was born in Kettering, to Caroline (née Wallis) and Joseph Toller.
In 1880 he was appointed as Chair of English Language at the University of Manchester, and he retired in 1903.
References
External links
''An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary'' scanned page images and OCRed text. From the Germanic Lexicon Project.
scanned page images. Digitized under the direction of Sean Crist.
''A Downloadable version of "An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary"''Thomas Northcote Toller at the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
1844 births
1930 deaths
Anglo-Saxon studies scholars
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