The Professorship of Greek is a chair at the

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. Following a bequest by

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, the chair was renamed the MacDowell Professor of Greek in his honour.

History

Under the

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of King

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the teaching of

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at the

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was the responsibility of the Regents (university teachers). From 1581 one of the Regents was sometimes given the title Professor of Greek. The Professorship was more formally established in 1704. Following the retirement of Douglas MacDowell in 2001, the University opted to let the Chair of Greek lapse. However, upon his MacDowell's death the University received a bequest from his estate of over £2 million. The money was used to re-establish the chair, with the first incumbent of the Macdowell Chair in Greek appointed in 2012.

List of Professors of Greek

The following have held the post: Professor of Greek * Alexander Dunlop MA LLD (1704–1746) * James Moore MA LLD (1746–1774) *

John Young John Young may refer to: Academics * John Young (professor of Greek) (died 1820), Scottish professor of Greek at the University of Glasgow * John C. Young (college president) (1803–1857), American educator, pastor, and president of Centre Col ...

MA (1774–1821) * Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford MA DCL MP (1821–1838) *

Edmund Law Lushington Edmund Law Lushington (10 January 1811 – 13 July 1893) was a classical scholar, a professor of Greek, and Rector of the University of Glasgow. Life Edmund Law Lushington was born on 10 January 1811 in Singleton, Lancashire, England. He was the ...

MA LLD (1838–1875) * Sir

Richard Claverhouse Jebb Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb (27 August 1841 – 9 December 1905) was a British classical scholar. Life Jebb was born in Dundee, Scotland. His father Robert was a well-known Irish barrister; his mother was Emily Harriet Horsley, daughter of t ...

MA LLD LittD FBA (1875–1889) * George Gilbert Aime Murray MA FBA (1889–1899) *

John Swinnerton Phillimore John Swinnerton Phillimore (26 February 1873 – 16 November 1926) was a British classical scholar, translator, and poet. Born at Boconnoc in Cornwall, Phillimore was, like his father, Augustus Phillimore before him, and four brothers, educate ...

MA LLD LittD (1899–1906) *

Gilbert Austin Davies Gilbert Austin Davies (15 September 1868 – 26 July 1948) was an English classical scholar. Life Davies was born in London. After education at Aldenham Grammar School and Owen’s College, Manchester, Davies went up to Trinity College, ...

MA (1906–1934) * William Rennie CBE MA LLD DLitt (1934–1946) *

Arnold Wycombe Gomme Arnold Wycombe Gomme (16 November 1886 – 17 January 1959) was a British classical scholar, lecturer in ancient Greek and Greek history (1911–1945), professor of ancient Greek, University of Glasgow (1946–1957), Fellow of the British Academy ...

MA LLD FBA (1946–1957) * Donald James Allan MA FBA (1957–1971) * Douglas Maurice MacDowell MA MLitt DLitt FRSE FBA (1971–2001) MacDowell Professor of Greek * Jan Stenger (2012–present)

References

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History

List of Professors of Greek

See also

References