Public Orator
The Public Orator is a traditional official post at universities, especially in the United Kingdom. The person in this position acts as the voice of the university during public occasions.[1]
The position at Oxford University dates from 1564.[2] The Public Orator at the University presents honorary degrees, giving an oration for each person that is honoured. They may be required to compose addresses and letters as directed by the Hebdomadal Council of the University. Speeches when members of the royal family are present may also be required. The post was instituted for a visit to Oxford by Queen Elizabeth I in 1566. The Public Orator, Thomas Kingsmill, gave a very long historical speech. Sir Isaac Wake addressed King James I similarly in 1605.
At the University of Cambridge, the title for the position changed from "Public Orator" to "Orator" in 1926.[3] Trinity College Dublin in Ireland also has a Public Orator.[4] There is no equivalent position in American universities.[5]
List of Public Orators
England
Oxford University
See also Category:Public Orators of the University of Oxford.
- Edmund Campion[6]
- William Crowe
- William Strode (lived 1602-1644)
- Thomas Kingsmill
- Isaac Wake
- William Walter Merry(1880-1910)
- Colin Hardie (1967 to 1973)
- Jasper Griffin (1992 to 2004)
- Richard Jenkyns (2004 to 2016)
- Jonathan Katz (2016—)
Cambridge University
See also Category:Cambridge University Orators.
- William Lewin, (1570 to 1571)[7]
- George Herbert, (1619 to 1627)[7]
- William Pearce (1778 to 1788)
- William Lort Mansel (1788 to 1798)[7]
- Edmund Outram (1798 to 1809)[7]
- Ralph Tatham
- Christopher Wordsworth
- William Henry Bateson
- William George Clark
- Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1869 to 1875)[7]
- Sir John Edwin Sandys (1875 to 1920; orator emeritus from 1920)[7]
- Terrot Reaveley Glover (1920 to 1939)[7]
- William Keith Chambers Guthrie (1939 to 1957)[7]
- Lancelot Patrick Wilkinson (1958 to 1974)[7]
- Frank Henry Stubbings (1974 to 1982)[7]
- James Diggle (1982 to 1993)[7]
- Anthony Bowen (1993[7] to 2007)
- Rupert Thompson (2008[7] [8]to present)
Liverpool University
- John Pinsent, (1983 to 1987)
Durham University
- Sir Ian Richmond, (1949 to 1951)
Ireland
Trinity College, Dublin
- Sir Robert Tate, (1914 to 1952)
- John V. Luce, (1972 to 2005)
- Brian McGing, (2005 to 2008)
- Anna Chahoud, (2008—)
See also
References
- ↑ "Definition: public orator". Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. die.net. 1913. Retrieved 10 August 2012. External link in
|publisher=(help) - ↑ Hibbert, Christopher, ed. (1988). "Public Orator". The Encyclopaedia of Oxford. Macmillan. p. 341. ISBN 0-333-39917-X.
- ↑ "Orator/Public Orator". University of Cambridge. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
- ↑ "John Victor Luce, Public Orator 1972–2005". Dublin, Republic of Ireland: Trinity College Dublin. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
- ↑ Schilling, Bernard N. (June 1959). "The Public Orator and Gradum Honoris Causa". AAUP Bulletin. 45 (2). American Association of University Professors. pp. 260–271.
- ↑ Waugh E 1935
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- ↑ http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2016-17/special/04/section2.shtml