The Challis Professorship are

professorship Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who professes". Professors ...

s at the

University of Sydney The University of Sydney (USYD), also known as Sydney University, or informally Sydney Uni, is a public research university located in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and is one of the country's si ...

named in honour of

John Henry Challis John Henry Challis (6 August 1806 – 28 February 1880) was an Anglo-Australian merchant, landowner and philanthropist, whose bequest to the University of Sydney allowed for the establishment of the Challis Professorships. Early life and migrati ...

, an Anglo-Australian merchant, landowner and philanthropist, whose bequests to the University of Sydney allowed for their establishment. In 1880 John Henry Challis bequeathed residuary real and personal estate to the University, "to be applied for the benefit of that Institution in such manner as the governing body thereof shall direct". From the income of the Fund a sum of £7,500 was applied for the payment of half the cost of the erection of a new Chemical Laboratory, and a further sum of £1,900 devoted to the erection of a marble statue of Mr Challis, which has been placed in the Great Hall, opposite to that of Mr W. C. Wentworth. The Challis appointments were then created.

Holders

English

John Le Gay Brereton John Le Gay Brereton (2 September 1871 – 2 February 1933) was an Australian poet, critic and professor of English at the University of Sydney. He was the first president of the Fellowship of Australian Writers when it was formed in Sydney in ...

(1921-1933) * A.J.A. Waldock (1934–50) * Wesley Milgate (1951–61) * Sam L. Goldberg (1963–66) * Gerry Wilkes (1966–96) *

Margaret Harris Margaret Frances Harris (28 May 1904 – 10 May 2000) was an English theatre and opera costume and scenic designer. Biography Early years Harris was born in Hayes, Kent, the fourth child and second daughter of William Birkbeck Harris, a L ...

(2006–07) * Paul Giles (2010–)

Philosophy

* Francis Anderson (1890-1921) *

John Anderson John Anderson may refer to: Business *John Anderson (Scottish businessman) (1747–1820), Scottish merchant and founder of Fermoy, Ireland * John Byers Anderson (1817–1897), American educator, military officer and railroad executive, mentor of ...

(1927-1958) *

J. L. Mackie John Leslie Mackie (25 August 1917 – 12 December 1981) was an Australian philosopher. He made significant contributions to the philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language, and is perhaps best known for his views on m ...

(1959-1963) *

David Malet Armstrong David Malet Armstrong (8 July 1926 – 13 May 2014), often D. M. Armstrong, was an Australian philosopher. He is well known for his work on metaphysics and the philosophy of mind, and for his defence of a factualist ontology, a functiona ...

(1964-1991) * Keith Campbell *

Huw Price Huw Price (; born 17 May 1953) is an Australian philosopher, formerly the Bertrand Russell Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, Cambridge, and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He was previously Challis Professor of Philosophy and Di ...

(2002-2012) * Moira Gatens (2012- ) Bernard Muscio is missing from the list and fits between Francis and John Anderson.

History

George Arnold Wood George Arnold Wood (7 June 1865 – 14 October 1928) was an English Australian historian notable for writing an early work on Australian history entitled '' The Discovery of Australia''. Wood was born at Salford, England; he was educated at Owens ...

(1891-1928) *

Stephen Henry Roberts Sir Stephen Henry Roberts Order of St Michael and St George, CMG (16 February 1901 in Maldon, Victoria – 17 March 1971) was an Australian academic, writer, historian, international analyst, and university chancellor (education), vice-chancello ...

(1929-1947) * John Manning Ward (1948-1979) * Deryck M. Schreuder (1980-1992) * Ros Pesman (2003-?2004) * Stephen Garton (?2004-???) * Shane White (???- ) * Christopher Hilliard, 2022-

Law

Pitt Cobbett William Pitt Cobbett (26 July 1853 in Adelaide, South Australia – 17 October 1919 in Hobart, Tasmania) was an Australian academic, jurist, and editor.Hutley F. C. (1981.) "Cobbett, William Pitt (1853–1919)" in ''Australian Dictionary of Bio ...

(1890-1909) * John Peden (1910-?1941?) * James Williams (1942-?1946?) *

Kenneth Owen Shatwell Kenneth is an English given name and surname. The name is an Anglicised form of two entirely different Gaelic personal names: ''Cainnech'' and '' Cináed''. The modern Gaelic form of ''Cainnech'' is ''Coinneach''; the name was derived from a b ...

(1947-1974) *

William Loutit Morison William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Eng ...

(1982-1985) *

Ross Waite Parsons Ross or ROSS may refer to: People * Clan Ross, a Highland Scottish clan * Ross (name), including a list of people with the surname or given name Ross, as well as the meaning * Earl of Ross, a peerage of Scotland Places * RoSS, the Republic of Sout ...

(1986) * David Harland (1989-2001) * Richard Vann (2002?-)

International Law and Jurisprudence (''split'')

This chair appears to have been the fourth of its kind in the English-speaking world. Its predecessors were the

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 w ...

at the

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; the Chair of Jurisprudence and the Law of Nations at UCL; and the Chair of Jurisprudence and International Law at

Trinity College, Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

. It was split after Stone's retirement into two separate chairs. *

Archibald Hamilton Charteris Archibald Hamilton Charteris (13 December 1835 – 24 April 1908) was a Scottish theologian, a Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, professor of biblical criticism at the University of Edinburgh and a leading voice in Churc ...

(1920-1940) *

Julius Stone Julius Stone (7 July 1907 – 1985) was Challis Professor of Jurisprudence and International Law at the University of Sydney from 1942 to 1972, and thereafter a visiting Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales and concurrently Dist ...

(1942-1973)

International Law

* David Johnson (1976-1985) * James Crawford (1986-1992) *

Ivan Shearer Ivan () is a Slavic male given name, connected with the variant of the Greek name (English: John) from Hebrew meaning 'God is gracious'. It is associated worldwide with Slavic countries. The earliest person known to bear the name was Bulgari ...

(1993-2003) * Donald Rothwell (2004-2006) *

Gillian Triggs Gillian Doreen Triggs (born 30 October 1945) is an Australian academic specialising in public international law. In 2019, she was appointed by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres as Assistant Secretary-General of the United Natio ...

(2010-2012) *

Ben Saul Ben Saul is the current Challis Professor of International Law at the University of Sydney and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. He has appeared as an advocate in international, regional and national courts outside Australia, and he ...

(2016-)

Jurisprudence

Alice Erh-Soon Tay Alice Erh-Soon Tay (1934–2004) was an Australian academic lawyer, an eminent jurisprudence and comparative law scholar. She was president of the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission from 1998 to 2003. Early life and educa ...

(1975-2002) *

Wojciech Sadurski Wojciech Sadurski (born 5 June 1950) is a Polish and Australian scholar of constitutional law. As of 2020, he is Challis Professor in Jurisprudence at the University of Sydney and Professor in the Centre for Europe in the University of Warsaw. A ...

(2009- )

Anatomy

James Thomas Wilson James Thomas Wilson FRS (1861-1945) was a Professor of Anatomy at the University of Cambridge and an elected Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1886, he was invited by T.P. Anderson Stewart to become a demonstrator in anatomy in the recently establi ...

(1890-1920) *

John Irvine Hunter John Irvine Hunter (24 January 1898 – 10 December 1924)Michael J. Blunt,, '' Australian Dictionary of Biography'', Vol. 9, MUP, 1983, pp 408–9. Retrieved 13 August 2009 was an Australian professor of anatomy. Early life and education Hu ...

(1923-1924) * Arthur Neville Burkitt (1926-1955) * Neil William Macintosh (1955-1973) * Michael J. Blunt (1973-1984) *

Jonathan Stone Jonathan Stone may refer to: *Jonathan Stone, builder of the Captain Jonathan Stone House in Belpre, Ohio, 1799 * Jonathan Stone (Massachusetts politician) (1823–1897), mayor of Charlestown, Massachusetts * Jonathan Stone (New Hampshire politici ...

(1987-2003)

Biology

The chair was founded in 1899, but renamed in to Zoology when Botany was created as a separate chair. It returned to its original name in 1963. *

William Aitcheson Haswell William Aitcheson Haswell (5 August 1854 – 24 January 1925) was a Scottish-Australian zoologist specialising in crustaceans, winner of the 1915 Clarke Medal. His zoological author abbreviation is Haswell. Taxa authored by him are given in :T ...

(1890-1917) * Launcelot Harrison (1922-1928) *

William John Dakin William John Dakin (23 July 1883 – 2 April 1950) was a zoology, zoologist who is remembered for the large number of his students who achieved prominence in the area of zoology and for the number of books and papers he wrote on many scientific f ...

(1929-1948) * Patrick Desmond Fitzgerald Murray (1949-1960) *

Charles Birch Louis Charles Birch (1918–2009) was an Australian geneticist specialising in population ecology and was also well known as a theologian, writing widely on the topic of science and religion, winning the Templeton Prize in 1990. The prize recogn ...

(1960-1983) *

Donald Thomas Anderson Donald Thomas Anderson FRS (born 29 December 1939 Eton, Berkshire) is an English zoologist, lecturer at King's College London, and Challis Professor of Biology at University of Sydney. He is currently based in Australia. He married Joanne Clarid ...

Norman Alan Walker Norman or Normans may refer to: Ethnic and cultural identity * The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 10th and 11th centuries ** People or things connected with the Norm ...

(1992-1993) * Ian Douglas Hume * Ronald Anthony Skurray

Civil Engineering

William Henry Warren William Henry Warren (2 February 1852 – 9 January 1926) was an Australian engineer and twice president of the Royal Society of New South Wales. Australian engineering think-tank The Warren Centre for Advanced Engineering and the annual ''W H ...

(29 July 1889-?1925) * Launcelot Harrison * Jack William Roderick * John Carter * Nicholas S. Trahair * Kim Rasmussen (2009 - )

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External links

* http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks15/1500721h/0-dict-biogCa-Ch.html#challis1 * http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/challis-john-henry-3186 University of Sydney