Regius Professor of Hebrew
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The Regius Professorship of Hebrew, founded by Henry VIII, a professorship at both Cambridge and Oxford Universities.
[edit] Regius Professors of Hebrew: 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:
- Thomas Wakefield (1540)
- Paulus Fagius (1549)
- Johannes Immanuel Tremellius (1550)
- Antoine Rodolphe Chevallier (1569)
- Philippe Bignon (1572)
- Edward Lively (1575)
- Robert Spaldinge (1605)
- Geoffrey Kynge (1607)
- Andrew Byng (1608)
- Robert Metcalfe (1622?)
- Ralph Cudworth (1645)
- Wolfram Stubbe (1688)
- James Talbot (1699)
- Henry Sike (1705)
- Philip Bouquett (1712)
- Thomas Harrison (1748)
- Charles Torriano (1753)
- William Disney (1757)
- William Collier (1771)
- John Porter (1790)
- Henry Lloyd (1795)
- Samuel Lee (1831)
- William Hodge Mill (1848)
- Thomas Jarrett (1854)
- Alexander Francis Kirkpatrick (1882)
- Robert Hatch Kennett (1903)
- Stanley Arthur Cook (1932)
- David Winton Thomas (1938)
- John Adney Emerton (1968)
- Robert Patterson Gordon (1995)
[edit] Regius Professors of Hebrew: 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 Thorn
- 1604 John Harding (II)
- 1610 Richard Kirby
- 1621 Edward Meetkirke
- 1626 John Morris
- 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 Nicoli
- 1828-82 Edward Bouverie Pusey
- 1883 Samuel Rolles Driver
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- 1978-89 James Barr
- 1992- Hugh Williamson
