Hector Munro Chadwick

Hector Munro Chadwick
Born	(1870-10-22)22 October 1870 Thornhill Lees, Yorkshire, England
Died	2 January 1947(1947-01-02) (aged 76) Cambridge, England
Spouse	Nora Kershaw ​ (after 1922)​
Academic background
Alma mater	Clare College, Cambridge
Academic advisors	Walter William Skeat
Influences	Paul Du Chaillu
Academic work
Discipline	Celtic studies Germanic studies
Sub-discipline	Anglo-Saxons Celts Epic poetry
Institutions	University of Cambridge
Notable works	The Origin of the English Nation (1907) The Heroic Age (1912) (With Nora K. Chadwick) The Growth of Literature (1932–1940)
Notable ideas	Heroic Age

Hector Munro Chadwick FBA (22 October 1870 – 2 January 1947) was an English philologist. Chadwick was the Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and the founder and head of the Department for Anglo-Saxon and Kindred Studies at the University of Cambridge. Chadwick was well known for his encouragement of interdisciplinary research on Celts and Germanic peoples, and for his theories on the Heroic Age in the history of human societies. Chadwick was a tutor of many notable students and the author of numerous influential works in his fields of study. Much of his research and teaching was conducted in cooperation with his wife, former student and fellow Cambridge scholar Nora Kershaw.