Savilian Professor of Astronomy
- Savilian Professor of Astronomy
The Savilian Chair of Astronomy at the University of Oxford in England was founded in 1619 and is named after Sir Henry Savile. The Professor is a Fellow of New College.
*1619
John Bainbridge*1643
John Greaves*1649
Seth Ward*1661
Christopher Wren*1673
Edward Bernard*1691
David Gregory*1708
John Caswell*1712
John Keill*1721
James Bradley*1763
Thomas Hornsby*1810
Abraham Robertson*1827
Stephen Peter Rigaud*1839
George Henry Sacheverell Johnson*1842
William Fishburn Donkin*1870
Charles Pritchard*1893
Herbert Hall Turner*1932
Harry Hemley Plaskett*1960
Donald Eustace Blackwell*1988
George Petros Efstathiou*1999 Joseph Ivor Silk
ee also
*List of Professorships at the University of Oxford
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