61 | https://historysoa.com/items/show/61 | Skeat, Walter William | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Skeat%2C+Walter+William+%281835%E2%80%931912%29">Skeat, Walter William (1835–1912)</a> | Walter William Skeat (1835–1912); philologist. | | | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Person">Person</a> | Skeat-Walter-William | | | | <a referrer="origin-when-cross-origin" href="https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/36116" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/36116</a> | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=73&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1884+%28Vice-President%29">1884 (Vice-President)</a> | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=66&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Vice-President">Vice-President</a> | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=34&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Professor">Professor</a> | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=79&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=M">M</a> | | | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=83&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1912">1912</a> | Walter William Skeat (1835–1912; <em>Oxford DNB</em>); philologist.<span> Elected to the new Elrington and Bosworth professorship of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge in 1878. </span>Edited a range of works including Chaucer and Anglo-Saxon texts, and also published textbooks promoting the study of the English language. Appointed a Vice-President of the Society of Authors. | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=82&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1835">1835</a> | | | | | | | | | | | | | <p class="title">Elliott & Fry. Portrait of Walter William Skeat. Albumen Cabinet Card. 1890s. NPG x25922 <span>© National Portrait Gallery, London. </span><a href="https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw121398/Walter-William-Skeat" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw121398/Walter-William-Skeat</a>.</p> | | | | | | | https://historysoa.com/files/original/1/61/1890s-Skeat-Walter-William.jpg | editing, education, languages, translation, Vice-Presidents |