The Lecky Professorship of History, previously the Lecky Professorship of

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is a

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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 ...

. The professorship was founded in 1913 in memory of

William Edward Hartpole Lecky William Edward Hartpole Lecky (26 March 1838 – 22 October 1903) was an Irish historian, essayist, and political theorist with Whig proclivities. His major work was an eight-volume ''History of Ireland during the Eighteenth Century''. Early ...

, with an endowment from his widow.

Lecky Professors of History

Walter Alison Phillips Walter Alison Phillips (21 October 1864 – 28 October 1950) was an English historian, a specialist in the history of Europe in the 19th century. From 1914 to 1939 he was the first holder of the Lecky chair of History in Trinity College, Dubl ...

, 1914–1939. *

Edmund Curtis Edmund CurtisIrish: ''Éamon Cuirtéis'' (1881–1943), was born in Lancashire to Irish parents. He worked in a rubber factory until he was 15 when he continued with his education. His education was paid for through donations when it was heard ...

, 1939–1943 *

Constantia Maxwell Constantia Elizabeth Maxwell (1886–1962) was an Irish historian who became the first woman to join Trinity College Dublin as a Professor. Early life and education Maxwell was the daughter of Scottish ophthalmic surgeon Patrick W. Maxwell and ...

, 1945–1951 *

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, 1951-1980 * J. F. Lydon, 1980-1993 * I. S. Robinson, 1993-2015 *

Ruth Mazo Karras Ruth Mazo Karras (born February 23, 1957) is an American historian and author of the Middle Ages whose interests are masculinity and sexuality in Christian and Jewish society during the Middle Ages. Her book, ''Unmarriages: Women, Men, and Sexual ...

, 2018–presentDepartment of History
at tcd.ie, accessed 13 May 2020

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