Regius Professor

Regius Professorships are "royal" professorships at the ancient universities of the United Kingdom and Ireland - namely Glasgow, Oxford, St Andrews, Cambridge, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Dublin. Each of the chairs was created by a monarch, and each appointment, though since 1923 no longer at Dublin, is approved by the Crown. Glasgow currently has the highest number of extant Regius chairs, at thirteen.

University of Glasgow

See also: list of Professorships at the University of Glasgow

• Regius Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics, Glasgow (1637/1713)
• Regius Professor of Materia Medica, Glasgow (1831) (merged in 1989 with Medicine and Therapeutics)
• Regius Professor of Law, Glasgow (1713)
• Regius Professor of Anatomy, Glasgow (1718)
• Regius Professor of Astronomy, Glasgow (1760)
• Regius Professor of Zoology, Glasgow (1807)
• Regius Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Glasgow (1815)
• Regius Professor of Surgery, Glasgow (1815)
• Regius Professor of Chemistry, Glasgow (1817)
• Regius Professor of Botany, Glasgow (1818)
• Regius Professor of Forensic Medicine, Glasgow (1839)
• Regius Professor of Physiology, Glasgow
• Regius Professor of Civil Engineering, Glasgow
• Regius Professor of English Language and Literature, Glasgow (1861)
• Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Glasgow (1716–1935)

University of Oxford

See also: list of professorships at the University of Oxford

• Regius Professor of Civil Law (c.1540)
• Regius Professor of Divinity (1535)
• Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology (1842)
• Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History (1842)
• Regius Professor of Hebrew (1546)
• Regius Professor of Medicine (1546)
• Regius Professor of Greek (c.1541)
• Regius Professor of Modern History (1724)

University of Aberdeen

See also: list of Professorships at the University of Aberdeen

• Regius Professor of Anatomy (1863)
• Regius Professor of Botany
• Regius Professor of English Literature
• Regius Professor of Greek
• Regius Professor of Humanity (formerly Classics)
• Regius Professor of Logic
• Regius Professor of Mathematics
• Regius Professor of Medicine
• Regius Professor of Moral Philosophy
• Regius Professor of Natural Sciences
• Regius Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (formerly Midwifery)
• Regius Professor of Physiology
• Regius Professor of Surgery (1839)

University of Cambridge

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• Regius Professor of Botany (1724/2009)
• Regius Professor of Civil Law (1540)
• Regius Professor of Divinity (1540)
• Regius Professor of Engineering (1875/2011)
• Regius Professor of Greek (1540)
• Regius Professor of Hebrew (1540)
• Regius Professor of Modern History (1724)
• Regius Professor of Physic (1540)

University of St Andrews

• Regius Professor of Mathematics (1668)

University of Edinburgh

See also: list of professorships at the University of Edinburgh

• Regius Professor of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations (1707)
• Regius Professor of Geology
• Regius Professor of Astronomy, Edinburgh
• Regius Chair of Clinical Surgery
• Regius Chair of Engineering

University of Dublin

See also: list of professorships at the University of Dublin

• Regius Professor of Laws (Dublin) (1668)
• Regius Professor of Physic (Dublin) (1637?)
• Regius Professor of Greek (Trinity) (1761)
• Regius Professor of Surgery (Dublin) (1852/1868)

New Regius chairs (2013)

In October 2012 it was announced that Queen Elizabeth II would create up to six new Regius Professorships, to be announced in early 2013, to mark her Diamond Jubilee. In January 2013 the full list was announced, comprising twelve new chairs.

• University of Dundee - Life Sciences
• University of Essex - Political Science
• Imperial College London - Engineering
• King's College London - Psychiatry
• London School of Economics and Political Science - Economics
• University of Manchester - Physics
• The Open University - Open Education
• University of Reading - Meteorology and Climate Science
• Royal Holloway, University of London - Music
• University of Southampton - Computer Science
• University of Surrey - Electronic Engineering
• University of Warwick - Mathematics

External links

• A new Regius Professor for Cambridge