What was the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Oxford academic position in Anglo-Saxon from 1925?

From 1925, J.R.R. Tolkien held the title Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford.

The professorship was connected with the study of Old English, also called Anglo-Saxon. Tolkien’s expertise in Old English language and literature strongly influenced his scholarship and his creative work. His 1936 lecture Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics helped change how the poem was viewed by emphasizing its artistic structure rather than treating it merely as historical evidence.

Tolkien held the Rawlinson and Bosworth chair until 1945. He then became Merton Professor of English Language and Literature, another Oxford position that he held until his retirement in 1959.

The title is easy to confuse with Tolkien’s later Merton professorship. The question concerns his first Oxford chair, which he took after serving as Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Leeds.