Regius_Professor_of_Greek_(Cambridge)

Regius Professor of Greek (Cambridge)

Regius Professor of Greek (Cambridge)

Professorship at the University of Cambridge

The Regius Professorship of Greek is one of the oldest professorships at the University of Cambridge. The Regius Professor chair was founded in 1540[1] by Henry VIII with a stipend of £40 per year, subsequently increased in 1848 by a canonry of Ely Cathedral.

Regius Professors of Greek

  1. 1540 John Cheke
  2. 1547 Nicholas Carr
  3. 1549 Francisco de Enzinas, alias Dryander
  4. 1562 Bartholomew Dodington
  5. 1585 Andrew Downes
  6. 1625 Robert Creighton, sr.
  7. 1639 James Duport
  8. 1654 Ralph Widdrington
  9. 1660 Isaac Barrow
  10. 1663 James Valentine
  11. 1666 Robert Creighton, jr.
  12. 1672 Thomas Gale
  13. 1672 John North
  14. 1674 Benjamin Pulleyn
  15. 1686 Michael Payne
  16. 1695 Joshua Barnes
  17. 1712 Thomas Pilgrim
  18. 1726 Walter Taylor
  19. 1743 William Fraigneau
  20. 1750 Thomas Francklin
  21. 1759 Michael Lort
  22. 1771 James Lambert
  23. 1780 William Cooke
  24. 1792 Richard Porson
  25. 1808 James Henry Monk
  26. 1823 Peter Paul Dobree
  27. 1825 James Scholefield
  28. 1853 William Hepworth Thompson
  29. 1867 Benjamin Hall Kennedy
  30. 1889 Richard Claverhouse Jebb
  31. 1906 Henry Jackson
  32. 1921 Alfred Chilton Pearson
  33. 1928 Donald Struan Robertson
  34. 1950 Denys Lionel Page
  35. 1974 Geoffrey Stephen Kirk
  36. 1984 Eric Handley
  37. 1994 Patricia Elizabeth Easterling
  38. 2001 Richard Lawrence Hunter[2]
  39. 2023 Tim Whitmarsh[3]

Official coat of arms

According to a grant of 1590, the office of Regius Professor of "Greke" at Cambridge has a coat of arms with the following blazon: Per chevron argent and sable, in chief the two Greek letters Alpha and Omega of the second, and in base a cicada (grasshopper) of the first, on a chief gules a lion passant guardant Or, charged on the side with the letter G sable. The crest has an owl.[4]

Sources

  1. [1]
    "The Regius Professor of Greek" (PDF). University of Cambridge. 2020.
  2. [2]
    "Elections and appointments". Cambridge University Reporter (5808). 4 May 2000. Retrieved 5 September 2019.
  3. [3]
    "Elections and appointments" (PDF). Cambridge University Reporter (6683). 18 January 2023. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
  4. [4]
    A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies (1909), pp. 587-588.
  • Concise Dictionary of National Biography
    • Cheke (to 1551), Carr, Dodington (to 1585), Downes (to 1624), Creighton (to 1639), Duport (to 1654), Widdrington, Barrow, Barnes, Fraigneau (to 1750), Francklin (to 1759), Cooke (to 1792), Dobree (to 1725)

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