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. Legacy 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 Chicago (in order to work on his Dictionary of American English) and was succeeded by J. R. R. Tolkien who held the post from 1925 to 1945. References Attribution External links An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, an online edition based on the Germanic Lexicon Project. An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, scanned page images. Digitized under the direction of Sean Crist. A Downloadable version of "An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary" A guide to Bosworth and Water Stratford 1789 births 1876 deaths People from Derbyshire Doctors of Divinity 19th-century English Anglican priests Linguists from England Alumni of the University of Aberdeen People educated at Repton School Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Anglo-Saxon studies scholars Rawlinsonian Professors of Anglo-Saxon Fellows of the Royal Society Members of the American Antiquarian Society