Bertram Colgrave

Bertram Colgrave (born 1889, Derry, Ireland – died 13 January 1968, Cambridge, England) was a medieval historian, antiquarian and archaeologist, specializing on the lives of the early saints in Anglo-Saxon England.

He went on to study for a second degree in Anglo-Saxon and Middle English at Clare College, Cambridge, teaching briefly at Merchiston Castle School near Edinburgh from 1916 to 1918.

He served as dean of the Faculty of Arts between 1933 and 1935 and was the first public orator of the university from 1939 to 1942.

[1] Colgrave specialized on the lives of St Cuthbert and the Venerable Bede.

He prepared editions of the Latin lives of the early saints Wilfrid, Cuthbert, Guthlac and Gregory the Great.

Colgrave's annotated translation of Bede 's 7th century prose Life of St Cuthbert was published in 1940. Title page of 10th-century manuscript in British Library with animal heads and plant motifs in first illuminated letter.