Quain Professor
Quain Professor is the professorship title for certain disciplines at University College, London, England. The title is derived from Richard Quain (1800-1887) who became professor of anatomy in 1832 at what was to become UCL. He made a provision in his will to the University that endowed professorships for four subjects; intending that funding gave recognition to his brother, John Richard Quain, as well as his own.
The Burhop prize for Physics, Applied Physics or Mathematics/Physics is also drawn from these funds.[1]
The Quain professorships are of Botany, English language and literature, Jurisprudence, and Physics.
Botany
- Francis Wall Oliver (1890-1925)
- Edward J. Salisbury (1929-1943)
- William Pearsall (1944-1957)
English
- William Paton Ker (1889-1920)
- Raymond Wilson Chambers (1922-1949)
- Albert Hugh Smith (1949-1963)
- Randolph Quirk (1968-1981)
- Sidney Greenbaum (1983-1990)
- David Trotter (1991-2001)
- Rosemary Ashton (2002-2012)
- Susan Irvine (2013- )
Jurisprudence
- Sir John Macdonell[3]（1901-1920）
- J. E. G. de Montmorency
- Sir Maurice Sheldon Amos[4]（1932-1937）
- Glanville Williams (1945-1955)
- Dennis Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Hampstead (1956-1982)
- William Twining (1983-1996)
- Ronald Dworkin (1998-2005; Bentham Professor until 2008)
- Ross Harrison (2006-2007)
- Gerald Cohen (2008 - 2009)
- John Tasioulas (2011-2014)
Physics
- Frederick Thomas Trouton (1902-1914)
- William Henry Bragg (1915-1923)
- Edward Andrade (1928-1950)
- Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey (1950-1972)
- Franz Ferdinand Heymann (1975-1987)
- John Finney (1993-1999)
- Gabriel Aeppli (2002-present)
Notes
- ^ 'Money' University College London (website) 2010. burhop
- ^ This Chair was established as 'Quain Professor of Comparative Law' in 1984，see Peter De Cruz, Comparative Law in a Changing World (London: Routledge, 1999), 15. [1]
- ^ H. J. Randall, 'Sir John Macdonell and the Study of Comparative Law', Journal of Comparative Legislation and International Law, Third Series, Vol. 12, No. 4 (1930), 191. (188-202)
- ^ Negley Harte and John North, The World of UCL: 1828-2004 (London: UCL Press, 2004), 60-61.
