The Drummond Professorship of Political Economy at

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has been held by a number of distinguished individuals, including three

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. The professorship is named after and was founded by Henry Drummond.

List of Drummond Professors

Nassau Senior Nassau William Senior (; 26 September 1790 – 4 June 1864), was an English lawyer known as an economist. He was also a government adviser over several decades on economic and social policy on which he wrote extensively. Early life He was born ...

, 1825–1830 and 1847–52, the first holder *

Richard Whately Richard Whately (1 February 1787 – 8 October 1863) was an English academic, rhetorician, logician, philosopher, economist, and theologian who also served as a reforming Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin. He was a leading Broad Churchman ...

, 1830–31 *

William Forster Lloyd William Forster Lloyd FRS (1794 – 2 June 1852) was a British writer on economics. He is best known today for one of his 1833 lectures on population control which have influenced writers in modern economic theory. Life Born in 1794 at Bradenh ...

, 1832–37 *

Herman Merivale Herman Merivale CB (8 November 1806 – 8 February 1874) was an English civil servant and historian. He was the elder brother of Charles Merivale, and father of the poet Herman Charles Merivale. He was born at Dawlish, Devon to John Her ...

, 1837– *

Travers Twiss Sir Travers Twiss QC FRS (19 March 1809 in London14 January 1897 in London) was an English jurist. He had a distinguished academic and legal career culminating in his appointment as Queen's Advocate-General. Twiss was particularly noted for hi ...

, 1841– * Sir George Kettilby Rickards, 1851–1857 *

Charles Neate Charles Neate (1806–1879) was an English politician and academic, economist and political writer. Life He was the fifth of the eleven children of Thomas Neate, rector and squire of Alvescot, Oxfordshire, and his wife Catherine, born at Adsto ...

(1857–1862) * James Edwin Thorold Rogers, 1862–67 and 1888– *

Bonamy Price Bonamy Price (22 May 18078 January 1888) was a British political economist. Biography Price was born at Saint Peter Port, Guernsey, where he lived until age 14, when he left Guernsey and entered the tutelage of Reverend Charles Bradley in High ...

, 1868–1888 *

Francis Ysidro Edgeworth Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (8 February 1845 – 13 February 1926) was an Anglo-Irish philosopher and political economist who made significant contributions to the methods of statistics during the 1880s. From 1891 onward, he was appointed th ...

, 1891–1922 * David Hutchison Macgregor, 1921–1945 *Sir

Hubert Douglas Henderson Sir Hubert Douglas Henderson (20 October 1890 – 22 February 1952), was a British economist and Liberal Party politician. Background Henderson was born the son of John Henderson of Glasgow. He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School, Rugby School ...

, 1945–51 *Sir

John Hicks Sir John Richards Hicks (8 April 1904 – 20 May 1989) was a British economist. He is considered one of the most important and influential economists of the twentieth century. The most familiar of his many contributions in the field of economic ...

, 1952–65 * R. C. O. Matthews, 1965–76 *

Joseph Stiglitz Joseph Eugene Stiglitz (; born February 9, 1943) is an American New Keynesian economist, a public policy analyst, and a full professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and the Joh ...

, 1976–1979 *

Amartya Sen Amartya Kumar Sen (; born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher, who since 1972 has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States. Sen has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, econom ...

, 1980–88 *

Sir John Vickers Sir John Vickers (born 7 July 1958) is a British economist and the Warden of All Souls College, Oxford. Education Vickers studied at Eastbourne Grammar School and Oriel College, Oxford. He graduated with a DPhil from the University of Oxford ...

, 1991–2008 (on leave 1998–2005) * Vincent Crawford, 2010–2020

References

External links

Oxford University Economics Department
Political Economy, Drummond Political Economy, Drummond All Souls College, Oxford Lists of people associated with the University of Oxford 1825 establishments in England {{UOxford-stub