The Regius Professorship of Greek is a professorship at the

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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 ...

founded the chair by 1541. He established five

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ships in the university (and five corresponding chairs in

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), the others being the Regius chairs of

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, Civil Law and

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John Harpsfield John Harpsfield (1516–1578) was an English Catholic controversialist and humanist. Life Harpsfield was educated in Winchester College and New College, Oxford (BA 1537, MA in theology 1541). He was perpetual fellow of New College from 1534 unt ...

, ca. 1541–1545 *

George Etheridge Sir George Etherege (c. 1636, Maidenhead, Berkshire – c. 10 May 1692, Paris) was an English dramatist. He wrote the plays '' The Comical Revenge or, Love in a Tub'' in 1664, ''She Would If She Could'' in 1668, and '' The Man of Mode or ...

(or Etherege), 1547–1550 *

Giles Lawrence Giles Lawrence, Doctor of Civil Law, DCL was an England, English Anglican priest in the 16th century. Lawrence was born in Gloucestershire and educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He was Regius Professor of Greek (Oxford), Regius Profess ...

, 1551–1553 * George Etheridge, reinstated, 1553–1559 * Giles Lawrence, reinstated, 1559–1584 or 1585 *

John Harmar John Harmar (ca. 1555–1613) was an English classical scholar and Warden of Winchester College. Life Harmar was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, (BA 1577, MA 1582) under the patronage of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leices ...

(or Harmer), 1585–1590 *

Henry Cuffe Sir Henry Cuffe (1563 – 13 March 1601) was an English writer and politician, executed during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England, for treason. Biography Family connections Born in 1563 at Hinton St George, Somerset, he was the yo ...

, 1590–1597 * John Perrin, 1597–1615 *

John Hales John Hales may refer to: *John Hales (theologian) (1584–1656), English theologian * John Hales (bishop of Exeter) from 1455 to 1456 *John Hales (bishop of Coventry and Lichfield) (died 1490) from 1459 to 1490 * John Hales (died 1540), MP for Cante ...

, 1615–1619 * John Harrys, 1619–1622 * John South, 1622–1625 *

Henry Stringer Henry Stringer ( – February 1657) was an England, English clergyman and academic. Stringer was educated at Winchester College, where he gained a scholarship aged 11 in 1605, and New College, Oxford, gaining a fellowship in 1614, and graduating ...

, 1625–1650 *

(or Harmer), 1650–1660 *

Joseph Crowther Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the mo ...

, 1660–1665 *

William Levinz William Levinz (25 July 1625 – 3 March 1698), doctor of medicine and Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University, was President of St John's College, Oxford, from 1673 until 1698. Life He was the son of William Levinz of Evenley, near ...

, 1665–1698 *

Humphrey Hody Humphrey Hody (1659 – 20 January 1707) was an English scholar and theologian. Life He was born at Odcombe in Somerset in 1659. In 1676 he entered Wadham College, Oxford, of which he became a fellow in 1685. In 1692 he became chaplain to ...

, 1698–1705 * Thomas Milles, 1705–1707 *

Edward Thwaytes Edward Thwaites (Thwaytes) (baptised 1661–1711) was an English scholar of the Anglo-Saxon language. According to David C. Douglas he was "one of the most inspiring teachers which Oxford has ever produced". Life Thwaites was the son of William ...

, 1707–1711 * Thomas Terry, 1712–1735 *

John Fanshawe John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second ...

, 1735–1741 * Thomas Shaw, 1741–1751 * Samuel Dickens, 1751–1763 * William Sharp, 1763–1782 * John Randolph, 1782–1783 * William Jackson, 1783–1811 *

Thomas Gaisford Thomas Gaisford (22 December 17792 June 1855) was an English classical scholar and clergyman. He served as Dean of Christ Church from 1831 until his death. Early life Gaisford was born at Iford Manor, Wiltshire, and educated at Hyde Abbey Scho ...

, 1811–1855 *

Benjamin Jowett Benjamin Jowett (, modern variant ; 15 April 1817 – 1 October 1893) was an English tutor and administrative reformer in the University of Oxford, a theologian, an Anglican cleric, and a translator of Plato and Thucydides. He was Master of Bal ...

, 1855–1893 *

Ingram Bywater Ingram Bywater, FBA (27 June 1840 – 18 December 1914) was an English classical scholar. He was born in Islington, London and first educated first at University College School and King's College School, then at Queen's College, Oxford. He obta ...

, 1893–1908 *

Gilbert Murray George Gilbert Aimé Murray (2 January 1866 – 20 May 1957) was an Australian-born British classical scholar and public intellectual, with connections in many spheres. He was an outstanding scholar of the language and culture of Ancient Greece ...

, 1908–1936 *

E. R. Dodds Eric Robertson Dodds (26 July 1893 – 8 April 1979) was an Irish classics, classical scholar. He was Regius Professor of Greek (Oxford), Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford from 1936 to 1960. Early life and education Dodds wa ...

, 1936–1960 *

Hugh Lloyd-Jones Sir Peter Hugh Jefferd Lloyd-Jones FBA (21 September 1922 – 5 October 2009 Peter J. Parsons Peter John Parsons, (24 September 1936 – 16 November 2022) was a British classicist and academic specialising in papyrology. He was Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford from 1989 to 2003. Early life and education Parsons w ...

, 1989–2003 *

Christopher Pelling Christopher Brendan Reginald Pelling, (born 14 December 1947) is a British classical scholar. He was the Regius Professor of Greek, at Christ Church, Oxford, from 2003 to 2015. He was President of the Hellenic Society from 2006 to 2008. His re ...

, 2003–2015 * Gregory Hutchinson, 2015–present

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, "Life and Works of Nicholas Harpsfield", in ''The life and death of Sr Thomas Moore, knight, sometymes Lord high Chancellor of England, written in the tyme of Queene Marie by Nicholas Harpsfield, L.D.'', Oxford:

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O.S. no. 186, 1932, pp. clxxv–ccxiv, esp. pp. clxxviii–clxxx. Important archival information correcting widely repeated mistaken information about the history of the chair in the 1540s. *
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