The Lecky Professorship of History, previously the Lecky Professorship of Modern History is a chair at Trinity College Dublin.
The professorship was founded in 1913 in memory of William Edward Hartpole Lecky, with an endowment from his widow.
Lecky Professors of History
- Walter Alison Phillips, 1914–1939.
- Edmund Curtis, 1939–1943
- Constantia Maxwell, 1945–1951
- A. J. Otway-Ruthven, 1951-1980
- J. F. Lydon, 1980-1993
- I. S. Robinson, 1993-2015
- Ruth Mazo Karras, 2018–present
Notes
- Journal of Education, vol. 36 (Oxford University Press, 1914)
- James Johnston Auchmuty, Lecky: a biographical and critical essay (Dublin, 1945), p. 127: "The first holder of the Lecky Chair was Professor Walter Alison Phillips, Litt.D. ... who was appointed in 1914."
- Howard B. Clarke, Medieval Dublin, the making of a metropolis (1990), p. 259
- Annette Jocelyn Otway-Ruthven, A History of Medieval Ireland (1980), p. 459
- Colony and Frontier in Medieval Ireland: essays presented to J. F. Lydon; ed. T. B. Barry et al. (London: Hambledon Press, 1995 ISBN 1852851228), p. xi
- School of Histories and Humanities at tcd.ie, accessed 26 November 2010
- Department of History at tcd.ie, accessed 13 May 2020