The Disney Professorship of Archaeology is an
endowed chair in
archaeology at the
University of Cambridge. It was endowed by
John Disney John Disney may refer to:
* John Disney (antiquarian) (1779–1857), English barrister
* John Disney (ornithologist) (1919–2014), Australian ornithologist
* John Disney (priest) (1677–1730), English clergyman
* John Disney (Unitarian)
John ...
in 1851 with a donation of £1,000, followed by a further £2,500 bequest upon his death in 1857.
Disney Professors have also served as the Directors of the
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research since it was founded in 1990.
List of Disney Professors of Archaeology
* 1851–1865
John Howard Marsden
John Howard Marsden (7 May 1803 – 24 January 1891) was an English cleric and academic. He was an antiquarian and became in 1851 the first Disney Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge.
Life
The eldest son of William Marsden ...
* 1865–1879
Churchill Babington
* 1879–1887
Percy Gardner
* 1887–1892
George Forrest Browne
George Forrest Browne (4 December 1833 – 1 June 1930) was an English bishop, the first Anglican Bishop of Stepney from 1895 until 1897 when he was appointed Bishop of Bristol. Early life
Browne was born in York 1833 and educated at St Peter ...
* 1892–1926
William Ridgeway
* 1926–1938
Ellis Minns
* 1939–1952
Dorothy Garrod
* 1952–1974
Grahame Clark
* 1974–1981
Glyn Daniel
* 1981–2004
Colin Renfrew
Andrew Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, (born 25 July 1937) is a British archaeologist, paleolinguist and Conservative peer noted for his work on radiocarbon dating, the prehistory of languages, archaeogenetics, neuroarchaeology, an ...
* 2004–2014
Graeme Barker
* 2014–
Cyprian Broodbank
See also
*
List of professorships at the University of Cambridge
References
Further reading
*Tilley, C.Y., 1989, Discourse and power: The genre of the Cambridge inaugural lecture. In Miller, D., Rowlands, M., and Tilley, C.Y. (Eds), ''Domination and Resistance''. London: Routledge.
External links
Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
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Archaeology of the United Kingdom
Archaeological organizations
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Faculty of Human, Social, and Political Science, University of Cambridge
1851 establishments in England
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