Wykeham Professor

The University of Oxford has three statutory professorships named after William of Wykeham.

Logic

The Wykeham Professorship in Logic was established in 1859, although it was not known as the Wykeham chair until later. Its first chair was Henry Wall.^[1]

The Wykeham is one of a number of chairs in the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford.

List of holders of post

• Henry Wall,^[1] 1849-?1870
• Thomas Fowler (Oxford) 1873-1889
• John Cook Wilson, 1889–1915
• Harold Henry Joachim, 1919-1935.
• Henry Habberley Price, 1935-1959.
• Alfred Jules Ayer, 1959-1978.
• Michael Dummett, 1979-1992.
• David Wiggins, 1993-2000.
• Timothy Williamson, 2000–present.

Ancient History

The Wykeham Professorship of Ancient History was established in 1910. It concentrates on Greek history to avoid possible duplication with the far older Camden Professorship of Ancient History, which focusses primarily on Roman history.

List of holders of post

• J. L. Myres, 1910–1939
• Theodore Wade-Gery, 1939–1953
• Antony Andrewes, 1953–1977
• W. G. (George) Forrest, 1977–1992
• Robert C. T. Parker, 1996-

Physics

Established 1900.

List of holders of post

• John Sealy Townsend 1900-1941
• Maurice Henry LeCorney Pryce, 1946–1954
• Willis Eugene Lamb, 1956-1962 (Nobel laureate, 1955)
• Rudolf E. Peierls, 1963–1974
• Sir Roger Elliott, 1974–1989
• David Sherrington, 1989 - 2006 (his successor is currently being elected)

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