Charles Leslie Wrenn

Charles Leslie Wrenn (1895–1969) was a British scholar. He became Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford in 1945, the successor in the chair of J.R.R. Tolkien, and held the position until 1963. Wrenn was a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. He was also a member of the Oxford literary discussion group known as the "Inklings", which included C. S. Lewis and Tolkien.

Selected writings

• Beowulf, with the Finnsburg fragment; edited by C. L. Wrenn. London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1953. Rev. & enlarged ed. (=2nd ed.) London: Harrap, 1958. 3rd ed.; fully revised by W. F. Bolton. London: Harrap, 1973. (Reissued by the University of Exeter, 1988.)
• An Old English Grammar; by Randolph Quirk and C. L. Wrenn. London: Methuen, 1955
• English and Medieval Studies Presented to J. R. R. Tolkien on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday; edited by Norman Davis and C. L. Wrenn. London: Allen and Unwin, 1962

References

• Charles Leslie Wrenn Books, Alibris
• Publications by C. L. Wrenn listed in Copac

External links

• Photographs of C. L. Wrenn at the National Portrait Gallery

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Name	Wrenn, Charles Leslie
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Date of birth	1895
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Date of death	1969
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