Gresham Professor of Rhetoric
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The Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College is appointed by the Mercers’ School Memorial Trust, administered by the Worshipful Company of Mercers. The title is a broad one, and professors of rhetoric have included historians, poets, educators and literary critics.
(Years given as, say,1596 / 7 refer to Old Style and New Style dates.)
| 1 | Caleb Willis | March 1596 / 7 |
| 2 | Richard Ball | 1598 |
| 3 | Charles Croke | 14 Jan 1613/ 4 |
| 4 | Henry Croke | 26 May 1619 |
| 5 | Edward Wilkinson | 13 April 1627 |
| 6 | John Goodridge | 6 Nov 1638 |
| 7 | Richard Hunt | 29 Nov 1654 |
| 8 | William Croune FRS | 8 June 1659 |
| 9 | Henry Jenkes | 21 Oct 1670 |
| 10 | John King | 2 Oct 1676 |
| 11 | Charles Gresham | 20 August 1686 |
| 12 | Edward Martyn | 4 Dec 1696 |
| 13 | John Ward | 1 Sept 1720 |
| 14 | Joseph Whateley | 19 Jan 1759 |
| 15 | Joseph Waugh | 11 April 1797 |
| 16 | F Newnham | 7 Jan 1808 |
| 17 | Edward Owen | 13 Nov 1817 |
| 18 | Charlton Lane | 23 April 1863 |
| 19 | Thomas Francis Dallin | 9 July 1875 |
| 20 | J E Nixon | 4 Feb 1881 |
| 21 | Foster Watson | 22 Jan 1915 |
| 22 | Oliver Elton | 19 April 1929 |
| 23 | George Stuart Gordon | 2 May 1930 |
| 24 | Arthur William Reed | 8 Dec 1933 |
| 1939–45 Lectures in abeyance | ||
| 25 | Rowland Walter Jepson | 6 June 1946 |
| 26 | Lord David Cecil | 27 June 1947 |
| 27 | Nevill Coghill | 14 Oct 1948 |
| 28 | William Empson | 1953 |
| 29 | Richard Hughes | 1954 |
| 30 | Bonamy Dobrée | 1957 |
| 31 | Stephen Spender | 1961 |
| 32 | John Wain | 1963 (Hilary term) |
| 33 | Cecil Day-Lewis | 1963–64 |
| 34 | Patrick Dickinson | 1965–67 |
| 35 | Sir Robert Birley | 1968–82 |
| 1983–84 vacant | ||
| 36 | John Morley Pick | 1985 |
| 37 | Jan Kott | 1986 |
| 38 | John Morley Pick | 1987 |
| 39 | J M Rae | 1988 |
| 40 | Sir Andrew Derbyshire | 1990 |
| 41 | Peter G Moore | 1 Sept 1992 |
| 42 | Peter Hennessy | 1 Sept 1994 |
| 43 | Lynette Hunter | 1 Sept 1997 |
| 44 | Richard Sorabji CBE FBA | 1 Sept 2000 |
| 45 | Kathleen Burk | 1 Sept 2003 |
[edit] See also
- Gresham Professor of Astronomy
- Gresham Professor of Commerce
- Gresham Professor of Divinity
- Gresham Professor of Geometry
- Gresham Professor of Law
- Gresham Professor of Music
- Gresham Professor of Physic
- 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.
