The Professor of Physic at Gresham College, London, gives free educational lectures to the general public, typically on medicine, health and related sciences. The college was founded for this purpose in 1597, when it created seven professorships; this was later increased to ten. Physic (the common term for medicine in this period) is one of the original professorships as set out by the will of Sir Thomas Gresham in 1575. The Professor of Physic is appointed in partnership with the Worshipful Company of Mercers.
Past Professors of Physic have included leading figures in medicine, public health, surgery and clinical science, such as Sir Christopher Wren and Robert Boyle. Additionally, other eminent medical scientists and physicians were Gresham Professors of other disciplines, like Sir William Petty, one of the founders of demography, who served as Professor of Music from 1651.
List of Gresham Professors of Physic
Name | Started | |
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1 | Matthew Gwinne | March 1596 / 7 |
2 | Peter Mounsell | Sept 1607 |
3 | Thomas Winston | 25 Oct 1615 |
4 | Paul de Laune | 13 June 1643 |
5 | Thomas Winston | 20 August 1652 |
6 | Jonathan Goddard FRS | 7 Nov 1655 |
7 | John Mapletoft FRS | 27 March 1675 |
8 | Henry Paman FRS | 21 June 1679 |
9 | Edward Stillingfleet FRS | 21 June 1689 |
10 | John Woodward FRS | 13 Jan 1692-1703 |
11 | Henry Pemberton FRS | 24 May 1728 |
12 | Thomas Healde FRS | 27 March 1771 |
13 | Christopher Stanger | 25 March 1789 |
14 | Henry Herbert Southey FRS | 24 Oct 1834 |
15 | Henry Powell | 27 July 1865 |
16 | Edmund Symes-Thompson | 5 July 1867 |
17 | Fleming Mant Sandwith | 14 March 1907 |
18 | Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones | 24 May 1918 |
19 | Sir George Newman | 26 July 1929 |
20 | James Alison Glover | 12 Oct 1934 |
21 | Vincent Sutherland Hodson | 13 April 1937 |
1939–45 Lectures in abeyance | ||
22 | Hamilton Hartridge FRS | 6 June 1946 |
23 | John Leonard d’Silva | 1955 |
24 | Arthur John Buller | 1962 |
25 | Invited lectures: H Harris and D V Davies | 1964-65 |
26 | J P Quilliam | 1965 |
27 | H C Stewart | 1968 |
28 | David Slome | 1970-84? |
29 | John Daniel Griffiths | 1986 |
30 | Sir Kenneth L Stuart | 1988 |
31 | Francis Cox | 1 Sept 1992 |
32 | Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield |
1 Sept 1995 |
33 | Hilary Rose and Steven Rose | 1 Sept 1999 |
34 | Keith Kendrick | 1 Sept 2002 |
35 | Christopher Dye FRS | 1 Sept 2006 |
36 | William Ayliffe | 1 Sept 2009 |
37 | Martin Elliott | 1 Sept 2014 |
38 | Sir Chris Whitty | 2018 |
39 | Robin May | 2022 |
References
- Gresham College old website, Internet Archive List of professors
- Robin May appointed in 2022
Notes
- "How We Recruit Speakers | Gresham College". www.gresham.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
- "Glover, James Alison (GLVR894JA)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- "Professor John Daniel Griffiths | Gresham College". www.gresham.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
- "Professor Sir Kenneth L Stuart MD FRCP | Gresham College". www.gresham.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
- "Professor Francis Cox DSc | Gresham College". www.gresham.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
- "Baroness Susan Greenfield | Gresham College". www.gresham.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
- "Professor Hilary Rose | Gresham College". www.gresham.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
- "Professor Steven Rose | Gresham College". www.gresham.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
- "Professor Keith Kendrick | Gresham College". www.gresham.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
- "Professor Christopher Dye | Gresham College". www.gresham.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
- "Professor William Ayliffe FRCS PhD | Gresham College". www.gresham.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
- "Professor Martin Elliott | Gresham College". www.gresham.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
- "Professor Chris Whitty FRS | Gresham College". www.gresham.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
- "Professor Robin May | Gresham College". www.gresham.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
Further reading
- Ward, John (1740). The Lives of the Professors of Gresham College. New York & London: Johnson Reprint Corporation.
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