12 Facts About Rachel Bromwich

Rachel Bromwich, born Rachel Sheldon Amos, was a British scholar.

Rachel Bromwich's focus was on medieval Welsh literature, and she taught Celtic Languages and Literature in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge, from 1945 to 1976.

Rachel Bromwich's father, Maurice Amos, was an English legal expert who served as international law adviser to the Egyptian government; her mother, Lucy Scott-Moncrieff Amos, was Scottish.

In 1934 Rachel Amos attended Newnham College, Cambridge, where she studied the Anglo-Saxon language before shifting departments to focus on Middle Welsh.

Rachel Bromwich studied Old Irish at Queen's University, Belfast, during World War II.

Rachel Bromwich taught Old Welsh and Old Irish at Cambridge, beginning in 1945.

Rachel Bromwich was named University Reader in Celtic Languages and Literatures in 1973.

Rachel Bromwich retired from teaching in 1976 and was succeeded by Patrick Sims-Williams.

In 1961 Rachel Bromwich published Trioedd Ynys Prydein, her influential edition of the Welsh Triads.

Rachel Bromwich served in leadership positions with the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, the International Arthurian Society, and the Irish Texts Society.

In 1939 Rachel Amos married archaeologist and historian John Bromwich, the son of mathematician Thomas John I'Anson Bromwich; they had one son, Brian.

Rachel Bromwich died in 2010, aged 95 years, in Aberystwyth.