Regius Professor of Greek (Cambridge)

The Regius Professorship of Greek is one of the oldest professorships at the University of Cambridge. The Regius Professor 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.

Regius Professors of Greek

  1. 1540 John Cheke
  2. 1547 Nicholas Carr
  3. 1549 Francisco de Enzinas, alias Dryander
  4. 1562 Bartholomew Dodington
  5. 1585 Andrew Downes
  6. 1625 Robert Creighton
  7. 1639 James Duport
  8. 1654 Ralph Widdrington
  9. 1660 Isaac Barrow
  10. 1663 James Valentine
  11. 1666 Thomas Gale
  12. 1672 John North
  13. 1674 Benjamin Pulleyn
  14. 1686 Michael Payne
  15. 1695 Joshua Barnes
  16. 1712 Thomas Pilgrim
  17. 1726 Walter Taylor
  18. 1743 William Fraigneau
  19. 1750 Thomas Francklin
  20. 1759 Michael Lort
  21. 1771 James Lambert
  22. 1780 William Cooke
  23. 1792 Richard Porson
  24. 1808 James Henry Monk
  25. 1823 Peter Paul Dobree
  26. 1825 James Scholefield
  27. 1853 William Hepworth Thompson
  28. 1867 Benjamin Hall Kennedy
  29. 1889 Richard Claverhouse Jebb
  30. 1906 Henry Jackson
  31. 1921 Alfred Chilton Pearson
  32. 1928 Donald Struan Robertson
  33. 1950 Denys Lionel Page
  34. 1974 Geoffrey Stephen Kirk
  35. 1984 Eric Handley
  36. 1994 Patricia Elizabeth Easterling
  37. 2001 Richard Lawrence Hunter

Official coat of arms

According to a grant of 1590, the office of Regius Professor of "Greke" at Cambridge has a coat of arms with the following blazon: Per chevron argent and sable, in chief the two Greek letters Alpha and Omega of the second, and in base a cicado (grasshopper) of the first, on a chief gules a lion passant guardant Or, charged on the side with the letter G sable. The crest has an owl.[1]

Sources

  1. ↑ A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies (1909), pp. 587-588.

See also