At which university did J.R.R. Tolkien hold the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professorship from 1925?

J.R.R. Tolkien held the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford from 1925. He occupied the post until 1945, when he became Merton Professor of English Language and Literature.

Tolkien had taught at the University of Leeds before returning to Oxford. At Oxford, his academic work covered Old English, Middle English, philology, and medieval literature, subjects that informed his approach to invented languages and legend-making.

The title is sometimes loosely described as an Oxford English professorship, but its formal name was the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon. Tolkien remained associated with Oxford throughout most of his scholarly career and retired from Merton College in 1959.