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Andy Orchard
FRSC FBA
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| 21st Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon | |
| Assumed office 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Malcolm Godden |
| 14th Provost of Trinity College, Toronto | |
| In office 2007–2013 |
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| Preceded by | Margaret MacMillan |
| Succeeded by | Mayo Moran |
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| Born |
Andrew Philip McDowell Orchard
27 February 1964 |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Spouse |
Clare Brind
(m. 1991) |
| Children | 2 |
| Education | University College School |
| Alma mater | Queens' College, Cambridge Exeter College, Oxford |
Andrew Philip McDowell Orchard, FRSC, FBA (born 27 February 1964) is a British academic of Old English, Norse and Celtic literature. He is Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. He was previously Provost of Trinity College, Toronto, from 2007 to 2013. In 2021, claims of ... and assault by Orchard were publicized, which were alleged at universities where he has worked, including the University of Cambridge and the University of Toronto.
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Biography
Orchard was born on 27 February 1964 in North London, England. He was educated at University College School, then an all-boys private school in London.
His undergraduate degree was undertaken at both Queens' College, Cambridge, where he read Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic from 1983, and Exeter College, Oxford, where he read English from 1985. He graduated in 1987 Bachelor of Arts (BA), which was later promoted to Master of Arts (MA). He then undertook postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge, completing his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1990. His doctoral thesis was titled The poetic art of Aldhelm.
In 1991, Orchard married Clare Brind in Oxford.
Academic career
In 1990, Orchard was a fellow of St John's College, Oxford. He then returned to the University of Cambridge upon completion of his postgraduate degree. In 1991, he became a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge and a lecturer in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic. He served as Emmanuel College's Admissions Tutor for Arts. In 1999, he was appointed Reader and Head of the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic.
In 2000, he moved to the University of Toronto where he took up the post of Professor of English and Medieval Studies. In 2001, he became the associate director of the Centre for Medieval Studies and an Associate of Trinity College, Toronto. He became a fellow of Trinity college in 2003, and Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies in 2004. He was appointed the 14th Provost of Trinity College, University of Toronto in 2007.
In 2013, he moved to the University of Oxford to take up the post of Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and became a fellow of Pembroke College.
Honours
Orchard was awarded the Pilkington Prize for excellence in teaching from the University of Cambridge in 1998. In 2012, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC). On 16 July 2015, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA). In 2019 he delivered the British Academy's Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture.
See also
- Hector Munro Chadwick
- Gabriel Turville-Petre
- Jan de Vries (philologist)
- John Lindow
- Rudolf Simek
- Hilda Ellis Davidson
