Eric Gerald Stanley, FBA (19 October 1923 – 20 June 2018) was a German-British Anglo-Saxonist; he was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, from 1977 to 1991 and was emeritus professor until his death.
Stanley was born in Germany; in 1934 his family moved to England to escape Nazi Germany, and he was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School in Blackburn and at University College, Oxford, to which he won a scholarship in 1941. He served in the Second World War.
He taught at Birmingham University from 1951 to 1962, then at Queen Mary College, London, first as Reader and from 1964 as Professor in English Language and Literature. In 1975 he took up a professorship at Yale University, in the United States, before being elected Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford beginning in 1977. He retired in 1991 and became emeritus professor.

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