Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History 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 ...

. It was founded in 1762 and funded by the Erasmus Smith Trust, which was established by

Erasmus Smith Erasmus Smith (1611–1691) was an English merchant and a landowner with possessions in England and Ireland. Having acquired significant wealth through trade and land transactions, he became a philanthropist in the sphere of education, treading ...

, who lived 1611–1691. It had been preceded by a Professorship of Oratory and History in 1724, and in 1762 the original professorship continued as a Professorship of Oratory alone. One of its incumbents was the celebrated

J. B. Bury John Bagnell Bury (; 16 October 1861 – 1 June 1927) was an Anglo-Irish historian, classical scholar, Medieval Roman historian and philologist. He objected to the label "Byzantinist" explicitly in the preface to the 1889 edition of his ''Lat ...

(1861-1927), author of ''History of the Roman Empire'' (1893), ''The Life of St. Patrick and his place in History'' (1905) and ''A History of Freedom of Thought'' (1914). The current occupant of the Erasmus Smith’s chair is Professor

Jane Ohlmeyer Jane Ohlmeyer, , is a historian and academic, specialising in early modern Irish and British history. She is the Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History (1762) at Trinity College Dublin and Chair of the Irish Research Council, which funds f ...

, a historian of the seventeenth-century Irish nobility.https://www.tcd.ie/history/staff/ohlmeyej.php TCD History Staff

List of the professors

* William Andrews (1762-1769) * Michael Kearney (1769-1776) * Henry Dabzac (1778–1790) * Digby Marsh (1790-1791) * George Hall (1791-1799) *

Francis Hodgkinson Francis Hodgkinson (died 1840) was Regius Professor of civil law (1834) and Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History (1799) at Trinity College Trinity College may refer to: Australia * Trinity Anglican College, an Anglican coeducational pri ...

(1799-1840) * Joseph Henderson Singer (1840-1860) * John Lewis Moore (1850-1855) * vacant (1855-1860) * James William Barlow (1860-1893) *

(1893–1902) * John Henry Wardell * J. R. H. Weaver (1911–1914) *

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 ...

(1914–1939) *

Theodore William Moody Theodore William Moody (26 November 1907 – 11 February 1984) was a historian from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Background Early life Moody was born in Belfast, to a poor family who made their living from dressmaking and iron turning and wa ...

(1939–1977) * Kenneth Gordon Davies (1977-1986) * Aidan Clarke (1986-2001)Aidan Clarke 1933-2020
/ref> * Jane H. Ohlmeyer (2003-present)

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{{Reflist 1762 establishments in Ireland Professorships at Trinity College Dublin

List of the professors

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