Neil Ripley Ker

1908 - 1982

country of citizenship: United Kingdom

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: Eton College, Magdalen College

occupation: linguist

award received: Fellow of the British Academy, Honorary doctor of Leiden University, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America

Neil Ripley Ker (; 1908–1982) was a scholar of Anglo-Saxon literature. He was Reader in Palaeography at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford until he retired in 1968. He is known especially for his Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon, which is praised as a milestone in Anglo-Saxon manuscript study. Source: Wikipedia (en)