Quain Professor is the professorship title for certain disciplines at

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, England. The title honours Richard Quain, who became Professor of Anatomy in 1832 at what would become University College, London. Quain left a legacy to the University to endow professorships in four subjects in 1887. He intended that the funding should recognise his brother, John Richard Quain, as well as himself. The Burhop prize for Physics, Applied Physics or Mathematics/Physics is also drawn from these funds. The Quain professorships cover Botany, English language and literature,

Jurisprudence Jurisprudence, or legal theory, is the theoretical study of the propriety of law. Scholars of jurisprudence seek to explain the nature of law in its most general form and they also seek to achieve a deeper understanding of legal reasoning a ...

, and Physics.

Botany

Francis Wall Oliver Francis Wall Oliver FRS (10 May 1864 – 14 September 1951) was an English botanist. He was educated at Bootham School, York. He was Quain Professor of Botany at University College London 1890–1925 where he supervised the PhD of Margaret Ja ...

(1890–1925) * Edward J. Salisbury (1929–1943) *

William Pearsall William Harold Pearsall (23 July 1891 – 14 October 1964) was a British botanist, Quain Professor of Botany at University College London 1944–1957.‘PEARSALL, William Harold’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing pl ...

(1944–1957) *Dan Lewis (1958-1978) *Peter Robert Bell (1979-?)

English

William Paton Ker William Paton Ker, FBA (30 August 1855 – 17 July 1923), was a Scottish literary scholar and essayist. Life Born in Glasgow in 1855, Ker studied at Glasgow Academy, the University of Glasgow, and Balliol College, Oxford. He was appointe ...

(1889–1920) *

Raymond Wilson Chambers Raymond Wilson Chambers (12 November 1874 – 23 April 1942) was a British literary scholar, author, librarian and academic; throughout his career he was associated with University College London (UCL). Life Chambers was educated at Univer ...

(1922–1949) *

Albert Hugh Smith Albert Hugh Smith OBE (24 February 1903 – 11 May 1967) was a scholar of Old English and Scandinavian languages and played a major part in the study and publication of English place-names. Hugh Smith was the son of Albert John Smith, a butler ...

(1949–1963) *

Randolph Quirk Charles Randolph Quirk, Baron Quirk, CBE, FBA (12 July 1920 – 20 December 2017) was a British linguist and life peer. He was the Quain Professor of English language and literature at University College London from 1968 to 1981. He sat as ...

(1968–1981) * Sidney Greenbaum (1983–1990) *David Trotter (1991–2001) *

Rosemary Ashton Rosemary Doreen Ashton, (''née'' Thomson; born 11 April 1947) is a Scottish literary scholar. From 2002 to 2012, she was the Quain Professor of English Language and Literature at University College London. Her reviews appear in the '' London Re ...

(2002–2012) *Susan Irvine (2013 – present)

Jurisprudence

Augustine Birrell Augustine Birrell KC (19 January 185020 November 1933) was a British Liberal Party politician, who was Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1907 to 1916. In this post, he was praised for enabling tenant farmers to own their property, and for exte ...

(1896-1899) *

Sir John Macdonell Sir John Macdonell (1 August 1846 – 17 March 1921) was a British jurist. He was King's Remembrancer (1912–1920) and invested as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British orde ...

H. J. Randall, 'Sir John Macdonell and the Study of Comparative Law', Journal of Comparative Legislation and International Law, Third Series, Vol. 12, No. 4 (1930), 191. (188–202)（1901–1920） *J. E. G. de Montmorency (1920-32) * Sir Maurice Amos（1932–1937)Negley Harte and John North, ''The World of UCL: 1828–2004'' (London: UCL Press, 2004), pp. 60-61. * Glanville Williams (1945–1955) *

Dennis Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Hampstead Dennis Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Hampstead, QC (22 October 1915 – 31 December 1992) was a British jurist, and was created a life peer on 14 May 1965 as Baron Lloyd of Hampstead, ''of Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden''. He was appointed Q ...

(1956–1982) * William Twining (1983–1996) * Ronald Dworkin (1998–2005; Bentham Professor until 2008) * Ross Harrison (2006–2007) * G. A. Cohen (2008–2009) * John Tasioulas (2011–2014)

Physics

* George Carey Foster (-1898) *

Hugh Longbourne Callendar Hugh Longbourne Callendar (18 April 1863 – 21 January 1930) was a British physicist known for his contributions to the areas of thermometry and thermodynamics. Callendar was the first to design and build an accurate platinum resistance ther ...

(1899-1901) *

Frederick Thomas Trouton Frederick Thomas Trouton FRS (; 24 November 1863 – 21 September 1922) was an Irish physicist known for Trouton's rule and experiments to detect the Earth's motion through the luminiferous aether. Life and work Trouton was born in Dubli ...

(1902–1914) *

William Henry Bragg Sir William Henry Bragg (2 July 1862 – 12 March 1942) was an English physicist, chemist, mathematician, and active sportsman who uniquelyThis is still a unique accomplishment, because no other parent-child combination has yet shared a Nob ...

(1915–1923) *

Edward Andrade Edward Neville da Costa Andrade FRS (27 December 1887 – 6 June 1971) was an English physicist, writer, and poet. He told ''The Literary Digest'' his name was pronounced "as written, i.e., like ''air raid'', with ''and'' substituted for ''air' ...

(1928–1950) * Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey (1950–1972) * Franz Ferdinand Heymann (1975–1987) *John Finney (1993–1999) * Gabriel Aeppli (2002 – present)

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