Gresham Professor of Geometry
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The Professor of Geometry at Gresham College is appointed by the City of London Corporation.
(Years given as, say,1596 / 7 refer to Old Style and New Style dates.)
| 1 | Henry Briggs | March 1596 / 97 |
| 2 | Peter Turner | 25 July 1620 |
| 3 | John Greaves | 22 Feb 1630 / 31 |
| 4 | Ralph Button | 15 Nov 1643 |
| 5 | Daniel Whistler FRS | 13 June 1648 |
| 6 | Laurence Rooke FRS | 7 August 1657 |
| 7 | Isaac Barrow | 16 July 1662 |
| 8 | Arthur Dacres | 20 May 1664 |
| 9 | Robert Hooke | 20 March 1664 / 5 |
| 10 | Andrew Tooke | 5 July 1704 |
| 11 | Thomas Tomlinson | 3 July 1729 |
| 12 | George Newland | 27 Jan 1731 / 2 |
| 13 | William Roman | 28 Nov 1749 |
| 14 | Wilfred Clarke | 28 August 1759 |
| 15 | S Kittleby | 5 March 1765 |
| 16 | Samuel Birch | 5 July 1808 |
| 17 | R P Edkins | 22 July 1848 |
| 18 | M Cowie | 18 Dec 1854 |
| 19 | Karl Pearson | 15 Dec 1890 |
| 20 | W H Wagstaff | 13 June 1894 |
| 1939–45 Lectures in abeyance | ||
| 21 | Louis Melville Milne-Thomson | 29 May 1946 |
| 22 | Thomas A A Broadbent | 1956 |
| 23 | Sir Bryan Thwaites | 1969 |
| 24 | Clive W Kilmister | 1972 |
| 25 | Sir Christopher Zeeman | 1988 |
| 26 | Ian Stewart | 1994 |
| 27 | Sir Roger Penrose FRS | 1 Sept 1998 |
| 28 | Harold Thimbleby | 1 Sept 2001 |
| 29 | Robin Wilson | 1 Sept 2004 |
[edit] See also
- Gresham Professor of Astronomy
- Gresham Professor of Commerce
- Gresham Professor of Divinity
- Gresham Professor of Law
- Gresham Professor of Music
- Gresham Professor of Physic (medicine)
- Gresham Professor of Rhetoric
- Visiting Gresham Professor
[edit] References
- Gresham College old website, Internet Archive List of professors
[edit] Further reading
- Ward, J [1740] (1967). The Lives of the Professors of Gresham College. New York & London: Johnson Reprint Corporation.
