Bruce Dickins

Deceased Person

1889 – 1978

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Who was Bruce Dickins?

Bruce Dickins, FBA, graduate of Magdalene College, Cambridge, was Professor of English Language at the University of Leeds from 1931 to 1946, teaching medieval English and Old Norse.

He became Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, Cambridge University, from January 1946 until September 1957, afterwards Emeritus Professor; and Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge from 1946. He was succeeded as professor at Leeds by Harold Orton, and in some respects also A. R. Taylor.

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Born
Oct 26, 1889
Died
Jan 4, 1978

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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