Charles Leslie Wrenn was a British scholar.

He became Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Oxford in 1945, the successor in the chair to J. R. R. Tolkien. The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford, England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... J. R. R. Tolkien in 1972, in his study at Merton Street (from by H. Carpenter) John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (January 3, 1892 – September 2, 1973) is the author of The Hobbit and its sequel The Lord of the Rings. ...