Andy Orchard | |
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21st Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon | |
Assumed office 2013 | |
Preceded by | Malcolm Godden |
14th Provost of Trinity College, Toronto | |
In office 2007–2013 | |
Preceded by | Margaret MacMillan |
Succeeded by | Mayo Moran |
Personal details | |
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 sexual harassment 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.[1][2]