Bosworth

Bosworth, JOSEPH, D.D., an Anglo-Saxon scholar, was born in Derbyshire, in 1789, and educated at Repton, Aberdeen, and Trinity College, Cambridge. Presented in 1817 to the vicarage of Little Horwood, Buckinghamshire, he devoted all his spare time to literature, and especially to researches in Anglo-Saxon. The result of his labours appeared in his Elements of Anglo-Saxon Grammar (1823), and A Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language (1838), his magnum opus, a new edition of which, by Professor Toller, has been issued from the Clarendon Press since 1882. Bosworth resided as British chaplain in Holland from 1829 to 1840, when he obtained the vicarage of Waithe, in Lincolnshire, in 1857 becoming rector of Water Stratford, Buckinghamshire, and in 1858 professor of Anglo-Saxon at the university of Oxford. He gave £10,000 towards the establishment of a professorship of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge, having, according to his own statement, realised £18,000 by the sale of his works. He died 27th May 1876.