Established professorships at the
University of Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh ( sco, University o Edinburgh, gd, Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann; abbreviated as ''Edin.'' in post-nominals) is a public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Granted a royal charter by King James VI in 15 ...
The title of the professorship is followed by the date of foundation. Dates in italics indicate the year of foundation of lectureships on which chairs were based. As of June 2019, the list appears incomplete.
* Chair of Divinity (1620)
* Chair of Hebrew and Oriental Languages (1642), now the Chair of Hebrew and Old Testament Studies
* Chair of Mathematics (1674)
* Chair of Medicine (1685)
* Chair of Ecclesiastical History (1694)
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Regius Chair of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations
The Regius Chair of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations is a Regius Professorship at the University of Edinburgh. It was established in 1707 by Queen Anne, and was the first chair in law created at the university.
History
The chair wa ...
(1707)
* Chair of Moral Philosophy (1708)
* Chair of Logic & Metaphysics (1708)
* Chair of Civil Law (1710)
* Chair of Chemistry (1713) (founded as 'Chair of Physik and Chymistry' where 'physik' = medicine)
* Chair of Universal History & Greek & Roman Antiquities (1719) (from 1909, 'Constitutional History', and from 1945, 'Constitutional Law and History')
* Chair of Scots Law (1722)
* Chair of Botany (1738), now the Regius Chair of Plant Sciences
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Regius Chair of Rhetoric and English Literature
The Regius Chair of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh was established in 1762 (as the Regius Chair of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres). It is arguably the first professorship of English Literature established anywhere in ...
(1762)
* Chair of Natural History (1767)
* Regius Chair of Astronomy (1785)
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Regius Chair of Clinical Surgery
The Regius Chair of Clinical Surgery is a royal professorship in the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. It was established by George III in 1802 in the university's Faculty of Medicine.
Regius Professors of Clinical Surgery
* Professor James R ...
(1802)
* Regius Chair of Forensic Medicine (1807)
* Chair of Military Surgery (1806, abolished 1856)
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Reid Professorship of Music (1833)
* Regius Chair of Sanskrit (1862), now the Regius Chair of South Asian Language, Culture and Society
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Regius Chair of Engineering (1868)
* Chair of Commercial and Political Economy and Mercantile Law (1870)
* Regius Chair of Geology (1871)
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Watson Gordon Chair of Fine Art
The Watson Gordon Chair of Fine Art is a professorship at the University of Edinburgh.
History
The chair was founded in 1880. John Watson Gordon was a Scottish painter who died in 1864. His brother and sister endowed the professorship in his memo ...
(1880)
* Chair of Celtic Languages, Literature, History & Antiquities (1882)
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Sir William Fraser Chair of Scottish History and Palaeography (1901)
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Abercromby Chair of Archaeology
Abercromby Professorship of Archaeology is a chair at the University of Edinburgh. It was endowed in the will of John Abercromby, 5th Baron Abercromby (1841–1924), who left instructions to establish a chair in prehistoric archaeology at the unive ...
(1927)
* Edward Clark Professor of Child Life and Health (1931)
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Ogilvie Professor of Human Geography
The Ogilvie Professor of Human Geography is the name for the occupant of the Ogilvie Chair of Geography at the University of Edinburgh. It is named in honour of Alan Grant Ogilvie FRSE (1887-1954), the first professor (1931) of their Department ...
(1931)
* Grant Chair of Dermatology (1946) - First such chair in Great Britain
* Forbes Chair of Medical Radiology (1947)
* Forbes Chair of Organic Chemistry (1947)
* Forbes Chair of Surgical Neurology (1947)
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Forbes Chair of English Language The Forbes Chair of English Language is a chair at the University of Edinburgh. It is one of List of professorships at the University of Edinburgh, a number of chairs founded in the 1940s following a bequest by East India mechant and Edinburgh alumn ...
(1948)
* George Harrison Law Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery (1947)
* Grierson Professor of English Literature (1950)
* Masson Professor of English Literature
* Maclaurin Chair of Mathematics (1964)
* Chair of Statistics (1966)
* Crum Brown Chair of Chemistry (1967)
* Chair of Applied Mathematics (1968)
* Salvesen Chair of European Institutions (1968)
* Lord President Reid Chair of Law (1972)
* Crawford Tercentenary Chair of Chemistry (2014)
* A. G. Leventis Chair of Byzantine Studies (2015)
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Will Davidson
William R. Davidson was a Scottish footballer. His regular position was as a half back. He played for Annbank and Manchester United. When Davidson joined the team in 1893, Manchester United was still known as Newton Heath Football Club and s ...
Chair of Law (2016)
References
External links
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