The position of Linacre Professor of Zoology at the

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was founded in 1860, initially as the Linacre Professorship of Physiology and then as the chair of Human and Comparative Anatomy, although its origins can be traced back a further 300 years, to the Linacre Lectureships at

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. The post is attached to a

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at Merton. It is named in honour of

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(1460–1524), Physician to

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and founder of the

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. The Linacre Professor is on the Board of Management for the J.W.Jenkinson Memorial Lectureship.

List of Linacre professors

* 1860–1881

George Rolleston George Rolleston MA MD FRCP FRS (30 July 1829 – 16 June 1881) was an English physician and zoologist. He was the first Linacre Professor of Anatomy and Physiology to be appointed at the University of Oxford, a post he held from 1860 until ...

* 1881–1891

Henry Nottidge Moseley Henry Nottidge Moseley Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (14 November 1844 – 10 November 1891) was a British natural history, naturalist who sailed on the global scientific expedition of Challenger expedition, HMS ''Challenger'' in 1872 through ...

* 1891–1898 Sir Edwin Ray Lankester * 1899–1906 Walter F.R. Weldon * 1906–1921 Gilbert C. BourneGilbert Charles Bourne, 1861–1933
by

Sydney J. Hickson Sydney John Hickson FRS (25 June 1859 – 6 February 1940), was a British zoologist known for his groundbreaking research in evolution, embryology, genetics, and systematics. Hickson travelled in the Malay archipelago in 1885–1886. He was a ...

* 1921–1946

Edwin Stephen Goodrich Edwin Stephen Goodrich FRS (Weston-super-Mare, 21 June 1868 – Oxford, 6 January 1946), was an English zoologist, specialising in comparative anatomy, embryology, palaeontology, and evolution. He held the Linacre Chair of Zoology in the Univer ...

* 1946–1961

Sir Alister Hardy Sir Alister Clavering Hardy (10 February 1896 – 22 May 1985) was an English marine biologist, an expert on marine ecosystems spanning organisms from zooplankton to whales. He had the artistic skill to illustrate his books with his own drawing ...

* 1961–1979

John William Sutton Pringle Sir John William Sutton Pringle (22 July 1912 – 2 November 1982) was a British zoologist. His research interests were in insect physiology, especially proprioception, flight muscle, and cicada song. Life and career Pringle was born in 1912, an ...

* 1979–1993 Sir Richard Southwood * 1993–2000 Sir Roy Anderson * 2002– Peter W. H. Holland

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Linacre Professors of Zoology

Department of Zoology, Oxford University
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