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Thomas Oswald Cockayne (1807–1873) was a churchman and philologist, best known today for his monumental edition of Old English medical texts.[1]LifeCockayne took a degree at St. John's College, Cambridge, graduating in mathematics in 1828 as tenth wrangler. He later took holy orders, alongside working for many years an assistant-master in King's College School, London (until 1869). He was a member of the Philological and the Early English Text Societies.[2] WorksCockayne's principal works were: - A Civil History of the Jews, from Joshua to Hadrian (1841)
- A Greek Syntax (1846)
- Outlines of the History of France (1846)
- Outlines of the History of Ireland (1851)
- Life of Marshal Turenne (1853)
- Leechdoms Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England Being a Collection of Documents, for the Most Part Never Before Printed Illustrating the History of Science in this Country Before the Norman Conquest, Rerum Britannicarum Medii Ævi Scriptores (Rolls Series), 35, 3 vols (London: Longman and others, 1864–6): [https://archive.org/details/leechdomswortcun01cock vol. I], [https://archive.org/details/leechdomswortcun18642cock vol. II], [https://archive.org/details/leechdomswortcun03cock vol. III].
- [https://archive.org/details/spoonsparrowfvnd00cock Spoon and Sparrow, or English roots in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew] (London: Parker, son, and Bourn, 1861)
- The Shrine, a collection of papers on dry subjects (1864)
References1. ^Anne Van Arsdall, Medieval Herbal Remedies: The Old English Herbarium and Anglo-Saxon Medicine (New York: Routledge 2002), pp. 1-34. 2. ^Arthur Aikin Brodribb, '[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Cockayne,_Thomas_Oswald_(DNB00) Cockayne, Thomas Oswald]', in Dictionary of National Biography (1885-1900), Volume 11, p. 176.
External links- [https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/5762 Current DNB entry]
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