Wykeham Professor

Wykeham Professor

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

Logic

The Wykeham Professorship in Logic was initially established as a readership in 1839, and was converted to a professorship in 1859. It is one of five statutory professorships in philosophy of the University of Oxford, the other four being the Waynflete Professorship of Metaphysical Philosophy, the White’s Professorship of Moral Philosophy, the Wilde Professorship in Mental Philosophy, as well as the untitled professorship in Ancient Philosophy.

List of holders of post

*Richard Mitchell, 1839-1849.
* Henry Wall, 1849-?1870
* Thomas Fowler (philosopher) ?1870-1889
* John Cook Wilson, 1889-1915
* Harold Henry Joachim, 1919-1935.
* Henry Habberley Price, 1935-1959.
* Alfred 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. Possible duplication with the far older Camden Professorship of Ancient History was avoided, as the Camden Professorship focussed primarily on Roman history, by concentrating the Wykeham chair on Greek 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-?
* 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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