Regius Professor of Greek (Cambridge)
- Regius Professor of Greek (Cambridge)
The Regius Professorship of Greek is one of the oldest and most prestigious of the professorships at the University of Cambridge.
The 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
* John Cheke (1540)
* Nicholas Carr (1547)
* Francisco de Enzinas, "alias" Dryander (1549)
* Bartholomew Dodington (1562)
* Andrew Downes (1585)
* Robert Creighton (1625)
* James Duport (1639)
* Ralph Widdrington (1654)
* Isaac Barrow (1660)
* James Valentine (1663)
* Robert Creighton (1666)
* Thomas Gale (1672)
* John North (1672)
* Benjamin Pulleyn (1674)
* Michael Payne (1686)
* Joshua Barnes (1695)
* Thomas Pilgrim (1712)
* Walter Taylor (1726)
* William Fraigneau (1743)
* Thomas Francklin (1750)
* Michael Lort (1759)
* James Lambert (1771)
* William Cooke (1780)
* Richard Porson (1792)
* James Henry Monk (1808)
* Peter Paul Dobree (1823)
* James Scholefield (1825)
* William Hepworth Thompson (1853)
* Benjamin Hall Kennedy (1867)
* Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1889)
* Henry Jackson (1906)
* Alfred Chilton Pearson (1921)
* Donald Struan Robertson (1928)
* Denys Lionel Page (1950)
* Geoffrey Stephen Kirk (1974)
* Eric Walter Handley (1984)
* Patricia Elizabeth Easterling (1994)
* Richard Lawrence Hunter (2001)
ource
*"Concise Dictionary of National Biography"
**Cheke (to 1551), Carr, Dodington (to 1585), Downes (to 1624), Creighton (to 1639), Duport (to 1654), Widdrington, Barrow, Barnes, Fraigneau (to 1750), Francklin (to 1759), Cooke (to 1792), Dobree (to 1725)
ee also
*Regius Professor of Greek (Oxford)
*Regius Professor of Greek (Trinity)
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