The Rhodes Professorship of Imperial History was one of the senior

professorships Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who professes". Professors ...

in history at

King's College London King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington. In 1836, King's ...

. Endowed by the

Rhodes Trust Rhodes House is a building part of the University of Oxford in England. It is located on South Parks Road in central Oxford, and was built in memory of Cecil Rhodes, an alumnus of the university and a major benefactor. It is listed Grade II* on ...

in 1919, it was axed in 2022 over links to the colonial legacy of its namesake

Cecil Rhodes Cecil John Rhodes (5 July 1853 – 26 March 1902) was a British mining magnate and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896. An ardent believer in British imperialism, Rhodes and his Br ...

. It was the second oldest academic chair in its subject in the world after the Beit Professorship of Colonial History at Oxford (founded in 1905).

List of holders

* Arthur Percival Newton (1920–1938) *

Vincent T. Harlow Vincent Todd Harlow (1898–1961) was a prominent English historian of the British Empire. From 1938 to 1949, he was the second Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King's College London. In 1950, he succeeded Reginald Coupland as the Beit P ...

(1938–1949) * Gerald S. Graham (1949–1970) *

Peter James Marshall Peter James Marshall (born 1933 in Calcutta) is a British historian known for his work on the British Empire, particularly the activities of British East India Company servants in 18th-century Bengal, and also the history of British involvemen ...

(1980–1993) * Andrew Porter (1993–2008)Professor Andrew Porter
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Richard Drayton Richard Drayton FRHistS (born 1964) is a Guyana-born historian and Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King's College London. Biography Richard Drayton was born in Guyana in 1964, to parents Kathleen (nee McCracken; 1930–2009) and Harold Dr ...

(2009–2022)

References

Imperial History, Rhodes Imperial History, Rhodes {{history-stub