The Beit Professorship of Commonwealth History is one of the senior professorships in history at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

. It was established in 1905 as the Beit Professorship of Colonial History. It is the first imperial professorship in the United Kingdom. The post is held in conjunction with a

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Balliol College, Oxford Balliol College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. One of Oxford's oldest colleges, it was founded around 1263 by John I de Balliol, a landowner from Barnard Castle in County Durham, who provided the f ...

Beit Professors

Hugh Egerton Hugh Edward Egerton (19 April 1855 – 21 May 1927) was a British historian. Life He was the second son of Edward Christopher Egerton, Member of Parliament for and , and his wife Lady Mary Frances Pierrepont, daughter of Charles Pierrepont, 2nd ...

(1905–1920) * Sir Reginald Coupland (1920–1948) *

Vincent T. Harlow Vincent Todd Harlow (1898–1961) was a prominent English historian of the British Empire. From 1938 to 1949, he was the second Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King's College London. In 1950, he succeeded Reginald Coupland as the Beit P ...

(1950–1963) *

John Andrew Gallagher John Andrew Gallagher (1 April 1919 – 5 March 1980), known as Jack Gallagher, was an historian of the British Empire who between 1963 and 1970 held the Beit Professorship of Commonwealth History at the University of Oxford and from 1971 until ...

(1963–1971) *

Ronald Robinson Ronald "Robbie" Edward Robinson, FBA (3 September 1920 – 19 June 1999) was a distinguished historian of the British Empire who between 1971 and 1987 held the Beit Professorship of Commonwealth History at the University of Oxford. After school ...

(1971–1987) * Judith M. Brown (1990–2011) * James Belich (2011–)

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