Hector Munro Chadwick (1870-1947), Anglo-Saxon scholar and historian, was born at Thornhill Lees, Yorkshire, on 22 October 1870. He attended grammar schools in Bradford, 1882-1883, and Wakefield, 1885-1889, before entering Clare College, Cambridge, in 1889. He became a Fellow of Clare in 1893, and was librarian, 1903-1911. Chadwick was Cambridge University lecturer in Scandinavian, 1910-1912, and Professor of Anglo-Saxon, 1912-1941. He married Nora Chadwick in 1922. He died in Cambridge on 2 January 1947.
Nora Kershaw Chadwick (1891-1972) was born at Great Lever, near Bolton, Lancashire, on 28 January 1891. She attended Stoneycroft School near Southport, Lancashire, before entering Newnham College, Cambridge, in 1910. She was a temporary lecturer in English language and assistant lecturer in English at the University of St Andrews, 1914-1919. In 1919 she began private research in Cambridge, where she was an Associate, 1923-1938, and Research Fellow, 1941-1944, at Newnham. Chadwick was university lecturer in the early history and culture of the British Isles, 1950-1958, and director of studies in Anglo-Saxon and Celtic subjects at Newnham, 1950-1959, and Girton, 1951-1962. She died in Cambridge on 24 April 1972.
From the guide to the Hector and Nora Chadwick: Photographs and papers, 20th century, (Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives)
