The Ilchester Lectures are a series of academic lectures in the

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, founded by

William Fox-Strangways, 4th Earl of Ilchester William Thomas Horner Fox-Strangways, 4th Earl of Ilchester FRS (7 May 1795 – 10 January 1865), styled The Honourable William Fox-Strangways until 1858, was a British diplomat, Whig politician and art collector. He served as Under-Secretary ...

(1795–1865).

History

Lord Ilchester was a diplomat representing Great Britain and Ireland and later a Whig politician. He served as

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for

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under

Lord Melbourne William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, (15 March 177924 November 1848), in some sources called Henry William Lamb, was a British Whig politician who served as Home Secretary (1830–1834) and Prime Minister (1834 and 1835–1841). His first pr ...

from 1835 to 1840 and then was Minister Plenipotentiary to the German Confederation from 1840 to 1849. On his death in 1865 he left a bequest for the founding of a series of lectures in Slavonic studies, the first of which was given in 1870.

List of lecturers since 1870

*1870: W. R. Morfill *1874: William Ralston Shedden Ralston, published as ''Early Russian History'' *1876:

Vilhelm Thomsen Vilhelm Ludwig Peter Thomsen (25 January 1842 – 12 May 1927) was a Danish linguist and Turkologist. He successfully deciphered the Orkhon inscriptions which were discovered during the expedition of Nikolai Yadrintsev in 1889. Early life and ...

, published as ''The Relations Between Ancient Russia and Scandinavia, and the Origin of the Russian State'' *1877:

Albert Henry Wratislaw Albert Henry Wratislaw (5 November 1822 – 3 November 1892) was an English clergyman and Slavonic scholar of Czech descent. Early life Albert Henry Wratislaw was born 5 November 1822 in Rugby, the eldest son of William Ferdinand Wratislaw (1788 ...

, published as ''The Native Literature of Bohemia in the Fourteenth Century'' *1883: Carl Abel, published as ''Slavic and Latin. Ilchester Lectures on comparative lexicography'' *1884:

Arthur Evans Sir Arthur John Evans (8 July 1851 – 11 July 1941) was a British archaeologist and pioneer in the study of Aegean civilization in the Bronze Age. He is most famous for unearthing the palace of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete. Based on ...

, six lectures on the Slavonic conquest of Illyricum (unpublished) *1886:

Moses Gaster Moses Gaster (17 September 1856 – 5 March 1939) was a Romanian, later British scholar, the ''Hakham'' of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish congregation, London, and a Hebrew and Romanian linguist. Moses Gaster was an active Zionist in Romani ...

, published as ''Ilchester Lectures on Greeko-Slavonic literature'' (1887) *1889–1890: Maxime Kovalevsky, published as ''Modern Customs and Ancient Laws of Russia: Being the Ilchester Lectures for 1889-1890'' *1900: Fedor Zigel, published as ''Lectures on Slavonic law: being the Ilchester lectures for the year 1900'' *1904: Count Lützow, published as ''Lectures on the Historians of Bohemia: Being the Ilchester Lectures for the Year 1904'' *1923: Roman Dyboski, published as ''Periods of Polish literary history, being the Ilchester lectures for the year 1923'' *1937:

David Talbot Rice David Talbot Rice (11 July 1903 in Rugby – 12 March 1972 in Cheltenham) was an English archaeologist and art historian. He has been described variously as a "gentleman academic" and an "amateur" art historian, though such remarks are not ...

, published as ''The Beginnings of Russian Icon Painting''David Talbot Rice, ''The Beginnings of Russian Icon Painting: Being the Ilchester Lecture Delivered in the Taylor Institution, Oxford, on 19 November 1937 (Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1938)

References

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