Rede Lecture

The Sir Robert Rede's Lecturer is an annual appointment to give a public lecture, the Sir Robert Rede's Lecture (usually Rede Lecture) at the University of Cambridge. [See [http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=Glossary%2FRede%20Lectures] . The series was put on its current footing in 1858.] It is named for Sir Robert Rede, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in the sixteenth century.

Initial series

*1683 John Naylor
*1728 William Neville
*1748 John Neville
*1750 Richard Newbon
*1790 Martin Joseph Naylor

1858-1899

*1859 Richard Owen "On the classifaction and geographical distribution of the Mammalia"
*1860 John Phillips "Life on the earth, its origin and succession"
*1861 Robert Willis "The social and architectural history of Trinity College"
*1862 Edward Sabine "The cosmical features of terrestrial magnetism"
*1863 David Thomas Ansted "The correlation of the natural history sciences"
*1864 George Biddell Airy "The late observations of total eclipses of the sun, and the inferences from them"
*1865 John Tyndall "On Radiation"
*1866 William Thomson "The dissipation of energy"
*1867 John Ruskin "The relation of national ethics to national art"
*1868 Friedrich Max Müller "On the stratification of language"
*1869 William Huggins "On the results of spectrum analysis of the heavenly bodies"
*1870 William Allen Miller "On some chemical processes of forming organic compounds, with illustrations from the coal tar colours"
*1871 Joseph Norman Lockyer "Recent solar discoveries"
*1872 Edward Augustus Freeman "The Unity of History"
*1873 Peter Guthrie Tait "Thermo-electricity"
*1874 Samuel White Baker "Slavery"
*1875 Henry James Sumner Maine "The effects of observation of India upon modern European thought"
*1876 Samuel Birch "The monumental history of ancient Egypt"
*1877 Charles Wyville Thomson "On some of the results of the expedition of H.M.S. Challenger"
*1878 James Clerk Maxwell "On the telephone"
*1879 William Henry Dallinger 'The origin of life, illustrated by the life histories of the least and lowest organisms in nature'
*1880 George Murray Humphry 'Man, prehistoric, present, future'
*1881 William Muir "The early Caliphate"
*1882 Matthew Arnold "Literature and Science"
*1883 Thomas Henry Huxley "'The origin of the existing forms of animal life: construction or evolution?" [http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/SM5/Rede.html]
*1884 Francis Galton "The Measurement of Human Faculty"
*1885 George John Romanes "Mind and motion"
*1886 John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury "On the forms of seedlings and the causes to which they are due"
*1887 John Robert Seeley "Greater Britain in the Georgian and in the Victorian era"
*1888 William Muir "The Early Caliphate and Rise of Islam"
*1889 George Gabriel Stokes "On some effects of the action of light on ponderable matter"
*1890 Richard Claverhouse Jebb "Erasmus"
*1891 Alfred Comyn Lyall "Natural religion in India"
*1892 Thomas George Bonney "The microscope's contributions to the earth's physical history"
*1893 Michael Foster "Weariness"
*1894 John Willis Clark "Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods"
*1895 Mandell Creighton "The Early Renaissance in England"
*1896 J. J. Thomson "Röntgen rays"
*1897 Arthur William Rücker "Recent researches on terrestrial magnetism"
*1898 Henry Irving "The theatre in its relation to the state"
*1899 Marie Alfred Cornu "La théorie des ondes lumineuses: son influence sur la physique moderne"

1900-1949

* 1900 Frederic Harrison "Byzantine history in the early middle age"
*1901 Frederic William Maitland "English Law and the Renaissance"
*1902 Osborne Reynolds "On an inversion of ideas as to the structure of the Universe"
*1903 George Walter Prothero "Napoleon III and the Second Empire"
*1904 James Alfred Ewing "The structure of metals"
*1905 Francis Edward Younghusband "Our true relationship with India"
*1906 William Mitchell Ramsay "The wars between Moslem and Christian for the possession of Asia Minor"
*1907 Aston Webb "The art of achitecture, and the training required to practise it"
*1908 Ernest Mason Satow "An Austrian diplomatist in the fifties"
*1909 Archibald Geikie "Charles Darwin as Geologist"
*1910 Charles Harding Firth "The parallel between the English and American Civil Wars"
*1911 Charles Algernon Parsons "Steam turbines"
*1912 George Gilbert Aimé Murray "The chorus in Greek tragedy"
*1913 George Nathaniel Curzon "Modern Parliamentary Eloquence"
*1914 Norman Moore "St Bartholomew's Hospital in peace and war"
*1915 Frederic George Kenyon "Ideals and characteristics of English culture"
*1916 George Forrest Browne "The ancient cross-shafts of Bewcastle and Ruthwell"
*1917 Richard Tetley Glazebrook "Science and industry"
*1918 Louis Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven "The Royal Navy, 1815-1915"
*1919 Lord Moulton, "Science and War"
*1920 James Scorgie Meston, 1st Baron Meston "India at the crossways"
*1921 William Napier Shaw "The air and its ways"
*1922 William Ralph Inge "The Victorian Age"
*1923 Hendrick Antoon Lorentz "Clerk Maxwell's electromagnetic theory"
*1924 Herbert Hensley Henson "Byron"
*1925 Hugh Walpole "Some notes on the evolution of the English novel"
*1926 Arthur Mayger Hind "Claude Lorrain and modern art"
*1927 Josiah Stamp "On stimulus in the economic life"
*1928 Michael Ernest Sadler "Thomas Day: an English disciple of Rousseau"
*1929 John Buchan "The Causal and the Casual in History"
*1930 James Hopwood Jeans "The mysterious universe", resulting in the book "The Mysterious Universe"
*1931 George Stuart Gordon "Robert Bridges" [Published as book in 1946]
*1932 Edgar Allison Peers "St. John of the Cross"
*1933 Charles Scott Sherrington "Brain and its mechanism"
*1934 Hugh Pattison Macmillan "Two ways of thinking"
*1935 Daniel Hall "The pace of progress"
*1936 Cedric Webster Hardwicke "The drama to-morrow"
*1937 Harold George Nicolson "The Meaning Of Prestige"
*1938 Patrick Playfair Laidlaw "Virus diseases and viruses"
*1939 Edward Mellanby "Some social and economic implications of the recent advances in medical science"
*1940 Augustus Moore Daniel "Some approaches to judgment in painting"
*1941 E. M. Forster "Virginia Woolf"
*1942 Archibald MacLeish "American opinion of the war"
*1943 Max Beerbohm "Lytton Strachey's writings"
*1944 Richard Livingstone "Plato and modern education"
*1945 Norman Birkett "National Parks and the countryside"
*1946 Edward Victor Appleton "Terrestrial magnetism and the ionosphere"
*1947 Hubert Douglas Henderson "The uses and abuses of economic planning"
*1948 Walter Hamilton Moberly "Universities and the state"
*1949 Ernest William Barnes "Religion and turmoil"

1950-1999

*1950 Edward Bridges "Portrait of a Profession"
*1951 Cecil Maurice Bowra "Inspiration and poetry"
*1952 Walter Russell Brain "The Contribution of Medicine to our Idea of the Mind"
*1953 Arthur Duncan Gardner "The proper study of mankind"
*1954 Charles Alfred Coulson "Science and religion: a changing relationship"
*1955 Lord David Cecil "Walter Pater - the Scholar Artist"
*1956 John Betjeman "The English Town in the Last Hundred Years"
*1957 Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer "Matthew Prior"
*1958 Charles Galton Darwin "The problems of world population"
*1959 C. P. Snow "The Two Cultures"
*1960 Edgar Wind "Classicism"
*1961 Lord Radcliffe "Censors"
*1962 Robert Hall "Planning"
*1963 Douglas William Logan The Years of Challenge
*1964 Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson "The oldest Irish tradition - a window on the early Iron Age"
*1965 Gavin de Beer "Genetics and prehistory"
*1966 Harold McCarter Taylor "Why should we study the Anglo-Saxons?"
*1967 Kenneth Wheare "The university in the news"
*1968 Patrick Arthur Devlin, Lord Devlin "The House of Lords and the Naval Prize Bill 1911"
*1969 Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett "The gap widens"
*1970 Kenneth Clark "The artist grows old"
*1971 Herbert Butterfield "The discontinuities between the generations in History: their effect on the transmission of political experience"
*1972 None
*1973 Kingsley Dunham "Non-renewable resources - a dilemma"
*1974 Walker Laing Macdonald Perry "Higher education for adults: where more means better"
*1975 Alfred Alistair Cooke "The American in England: from Emerson to S. J. Perelman"
*1976 Rupert Cross "The golden thread of English Criminal Law: the burden of proof"
*1977 Richard Southern "The historical experience"
*1978 Margaret Gowing "Reflections on Atomic Energy History"
*1979 H.R.H. the Prince Philip "Philosophy, politics and administration"
*1980 Shirley Williams "Technology, employment, and change"
*1981 Frederick Sydney Dainton "British universities: purposes, problems, and pressures"
*1982 Fred Hoyle Facts and Dogmas in Cosmology and Elsewhere
*1983 David Towry Piper "The increase of learning and other great objects"
*1984 Sir Clive Sinclair "A time for change"
*1985 Brian Urquhart "The United Nations and international law"
*1986 David Attenborough "Islands"
*1987 Sir John Thompson "A reconsideration of the ideas underlying the international system"
*1988 Roy Jenkins "Lord Jenkins of Hillhead; 'An Oxford view of Cambridge' "
*1989 Peter Alexander Ustinov "Communication"
*1990 Anne, H.R.H. the Princess Royal "Punishment"
*1991 Peter Swinnerton-Dyer "Policy on Higher Education and Research"
*1993 L. M. Singhvi A Tale of Three Cities
*1994 Geoffrey Howe "Nationalism and the Nation State"
*1996 Mary Robinson
*1997 Leon Brittan "Globalisation vs. Sovereignty? The European Response"
*1998 Rosalyn Higgins "International Law in a Changing Legal System"

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External links

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