The position of Linacre Professor of Zoology at the
University of Oxford was founded in 1860, initially as the Linacre Professorship of Physiology and then as the chair of Human and Comparative Anatomy, although its origins can be traced back a further 300 years, to the Linacre Lectureships at
Merton College
Merton College (in full: The House or College of Scholars of Merton in the University of Oxford) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Its foundation can be traced back to the 1260s when Walter de Merton, ch ...
. The post is attached to a
fellowship at Merton.
It is named in honour of
Thomas Linacre (1460–1524), Physician to
Henry VIII
Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547. Henry is best known for his six marriages, and for his efforts to have his first marriage (to Catherine of Aragon) annulled. His disa ...
and founder of the
Royal College of Physicians.
The Linacre Professor is on the Board of Management for the
J.W.Jenkinson Memorial Lectureship
John Wilfred Jenkinson (1871–1915) was a pioneer in the field of comparative developmental biology (the forerunner of evolutionary developmental biology) and one of the first to introduce experimental embryology to the UK at the start of the ...
.
List of Linacre professors
* 1860–1881
George Rolleston
* 1881–1891
Henry Nottidge Moseley
* 1891–1898
Sir Edwin Ray Lankester
* 1899–1906
Walter F.R. Weldon
* 1906–1921
Gilbert C. BourneGilbert Charles Bourne, 1861–1933
by Sydney J. Hickson
* 1921–1946 Edwin Stephen Goodrich
* 1946–1961 Sir Alister Hardy
* 1961–1979 John William Sutton Pringle
* 1979–1993 Sir Richard Southwood
* 1993–2000 Sir Roy Anderson
* 2002– Peter W. H. Holland
References
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Linacre Professors of Zoology
Department of Zoology, Oxford University
Professorships at the University of Oxford
Professorships in zoology
1860 establishments in the United Kingdom
Merton College, Oxford
Lists of people associated with the University of Oxford