Regius Professor of Hebrew
The Regius Professorship of Hebrew, founded by Henry VIII, is a professorship at both Cambridge and Oxford Universities.
[edit] List of Regius Professors of Hebrew at Cambridge
The chair was founded by Henry VIII in 1540 with a stipend of £40 per year, subsequently increased in 1848 by a canonry of Ely Cathedral. The chair has been held by:
- 1540 Thomas Wakefield
- 1549 Paulus Fagius
- 1550 Johannes Immanuel Tremellius
- 1569 Antoine Rodolphe Chevallier
- 1572 Philippe Bignon
- 1575 Edward Lively
- 1605 Robert Spaldinge
- 1607 Geoffrey Kynge
- 1608 Andrew Byng
- c.1622 Robert Metcalfe
- 1645 Ralph Cudworth
- 1688 Wolfram Stubbe
- 1699 James Talbot
- 1705 Henry Sike
- 1712 Philip Bouquett
- 1748 Thomas Harrison
- 1753 Charles Torriano
- 1757 William Disney
- 1771 William Collier
- 1790 John Porter
- 1795 Henry Lloyd
- 1831 Samuel Lee
- 1848 William Hodge Mill
- 1854 Thomas Jarrett
- 1882 Alexander Francis Kirkpatrick
- 1903 Robert Hatch Kennett
- 1932 Stanley Arthur Cook
- 1938 David Winton Thomas
- 1968 John Adney Emerton
- 1995 Robert Patterson Gordon[1]
[edit] List of Regius Professors of Hebrew at Oxford
The chair was founded by Henry VIII in 1546. In 1630 a canonry of Christ Church was perpetually annexed to the professorship, through the influence of Archbishop Laud.
Incomplete list:
- 1546 or 1547 Thomas Harding
- 1548 Richard Bruern
- 1559 Thomas Neale
- 1569 Thomas Kingsmill
- 1591 John Harding (I)
- 1598 William Thorne
- 1604 John Harding (II)
- 1610 Richard Kirby[disambiguation needed
] - 1621 Edward Meetkirke
- 1626 John Morris[disambiguation needed ]
- 1648 Edward Pococke
- 1691 Roger Altham (I)
- 1697 Thomas Hyde
- 1702 Roger Altham (II)
- 1705 Robert Clavering
- 1747 Thomas Hunt
- 1774 Richard Brown
- 1780 George Jubb
- 1787 Benjamin Blayney
- 1802 Joseph White
- 1814 Richard Laurence
- 1822 Alexander Nicoll
- 1828-82 Edward Bouverie Pusey
- 1883 Samuel Rolles Driver
- 1914 George A. Cooke
- 1936 Herbert Danby
- 1954 Cuthbert Aikman Simpson
- 1960 William Duff (W.D.) McHardy
- 1978–89 James Barr[2]
- 1992 Hugh Williamson[3]
In the 20th century, Sir Godfrey Rolles Driver twice acted as deputy professor during vacancies (1934, 1959). He was ineligible to hold the chair outright, as he was a layman and the chair was attached to an (Anglican) canonry of Christ Church, thus requiring the holder to be in holy orders.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ Robert Gordon at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
- ^ Obituary by H.G.M. Williamson
- ^ Hugh Williamson, Christ Church, Oxford.
- ^ J. A. Emerton, 'Driver, Sir Godfrey Rolles (1892–1975)', in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
