Oswald Cockayne Explained

Thomas Oswald Cockayne (1807–1873) was a churchman and philologist, best known today for his monumental edition of Old English medical texts.^[1]

Life

Cockayne 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]

Works

Cockayne'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): vol. I, vol. II, vol. III.
• 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)

External links

• 5762. Daniel F.. Kenneally. Cockayne, Thomas Oswald.

Notes and References

1. 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. Cockayne, Thomas Oswald. 11. 176.