The Challis Professorship are
professorship
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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 six ...
named in honour of
John Henry Challis, 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
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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)
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A.J.A. Waldock (1934–50)
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Wesley Milgate (1951–61)
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Sam L. Goldberg (1963–66)
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Gerry Wilkes (1966–96)
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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 Llo ...
(2006–07)
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Paul Giles (2010–)
Philosophy
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Francis Anderson (1890-1921)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Keith Campbell
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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 D ...
(2002-2012)
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Moira Gatens (2012- )
Bernard Muscio is missing from the list and fits between Francis and John Anderson.
History
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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)
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Stephen Henry Roberts (1929-1947)
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John Manning Ward (1948-1979)
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Deryck M. Schreuder (1980-1992)
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Ros Pesman (2003-?2004)
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Stephen Garton (?2004-???)
* Shane White (???- )
* Christopher Hilliard, 2022-
Law
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Pitt Cobbett (1890-1909)
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John Peden (1910-?1941?)
* James Williams (1942-?1946?)
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Kenneth Owen Shatwell (1947-1974)
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William Loutit Morison (1982-1985)
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Ross Waite Parsons (1986)
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David Harland (1989-2001)
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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 at the
University of Edinburgh
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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)
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, motto_English = It will last i ...
. It was split after Stone's retirement into two separate chairs.
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Archibald Hamilton Charteris (1920-1940)
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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 Dis ...
(1942-1973)
International Law
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David Johnson (1976-1985)
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James Crawford (1986-1992)
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Ivan Shearer (1993-2003)
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Donald Rothwell (2004-2006)
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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)
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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
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Alice Erh-Soon Tay (1975-2002)
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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.
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(2009- )
Anatomy
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James Thomas Wilson (1890-1920)
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John Irvine Hunter (1923-1924)
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Arthur Neville Burkitt (1926-1955)
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Neil William Macintosh (1955-1973)
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Michael J. Blunt (1973-1984)
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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.
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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 : ...
(1890-1917)
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Launcelot Harrison (1922-1928)
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William John Dakin (1929-1948)
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Patrick Desmond Fitzgerald Murray (1949-1960)
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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)
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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
The University of Sydney (USYD), also known as Sydney Un ...
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Norman Alan Walker (1992-1993)
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Ian Douglas Hume
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Ronald Anthony Skurray
Civil Engineering
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William Henry Warren (29 July 1889-?1925)
* Launcelot Harrison
* Jack William Roderick
* John Carter
* Nicholas S. Trahair
* Kim Rasmussen (2009 - )
See also
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List of University of Sydney people
Notes
References
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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
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