This volume gathers together obituaries of 28 members of the British Academy who `transformed our knowledge of all aspects of the culture - philological, literary, palaeographical, archaeological, art-historical - of early medieval Britain' during the late 19th and 20th centuries. Scholars include Whitly Stokes, Sir John Rhys, Arthur Simpson Napier, Sir Israel Gollancz, Hector Munro Chadwick, Raymond Wilson Chambers, Sir Allen Mawer, Sir Ifor Williams, Kenneth Sisam, Nora Kershaw Chadwick, Dorothy Whitelock, Francis Wormald, Peter Hunter Blair, Thomas Julian Brown. The appendix lists the bibliographies of each scholar. Each obituary retains its original font and includes a photographic portrait, most were previously published in The Proceedings of the British Academy .