The Forbes Chair of English Language is a chair at the
University of Edinburgh.
It is one of
a number of chairs founded in the 1940s following a bequest by East India mechant and Edinburgh alumnus Daniel Mackintosh Forbes.
Its original title was the Forbes Chair of English Language and General Linguistics, but with the creation of a separate chair of general linguistics in the 1960s the latter part of the title was dropped, incumbent Angus McIntosh continuing in the role.
List of Forbes Professors of English Language
* 1948-1979:
Angus McIntosh
* 1979-1988:
James Peter Thorne
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* 1990-2004:
Charles Jones
* 2005-2011:
April McMahon
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* 2013-:
Bettelou Los
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Professorships at the University of Edinburgh
Professorships in English
Professorships in languages