Gresham Professor of Music

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The Professor of Music 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	John Bull	March 1596 / 7
2	Thomas Clayton	20 Dec 1607
3	John Taverner	17 Nov 1610
4	Richard Knight	28 August 1638
5	Sir William Petty FRS	7 Feb 1650 / 1
6	Thomas Baynes	8 March 1660 / 1
7	William Perry	9 August 1681
8	John Newey	9 Oct 1696
9	Robert Shippen	4 Dec 1705
10	Edward Shippen	7 Oct 1710
11	John Gordon	16 Jan 1723 / 4
12	Thomas Brome	12 March 1739 / 40
13	Charles Gardner	6 Dec 1745
14	T Griffin	11 Jan 1763
15	Theodore Aylward	5 June 1771
16	Jno S Stevens	17 March 1801
17	Edward Taylor	24 Oct 1837
18	Henry Wyld	10 July 1863
19	Frederick Bridge	30 April 1890
20	Henry Walford Davies	11 July 1924
1939–45 Lectures in abeyance
21	Peter Latham	29 May 1946
22	Anthony Hopkins (sp?)	1963
23	Brian Trowell	1971
24	Iannis Xenakis	1975
25	– vacant –	1978-79
26	A Percival	1980
27	– vacant –	1983
28	John Dankworth	1984
29	Peter Renshaw	1986
30	David Owen Norris	1 Sept 1993
31	Stephen Pratt/ Joanna MacGregor	1 Sept 1997
32	Piers Hellawell	1 Sept 2000
33	Adrian Thomas	1 Sept 2003
34	Roger Parker

[edit] See also

• Gresham Professor of Astronomy
• Gresham Professor of Commerce
• Gresham Professor of Divinity
• Gresham Professor of Geometry (mathematics)
• Gresham Professor of Law
• 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.