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The Sir Robert Rede's Lecturer is an annual appointment to give a public lecture, the Sir Robert Rede's Lecture (usually Rede Lecture) at the ].<ref>See . The series was put on its current footing in 1858.</ref>
The '''Sir Robert Rede's Lecturer''' is an annual appointment to give a public lecture, the '''Sir Robert Rede's Lecture''' (usually '''Rede Lecture''') at the ].<ref>See . The series was put on its current footing in 1858.</ref> It is named for ], who was ] in the sixteenth century.


==Initial series== ==Initial series==
The initial series of lectures ranges from around 1668 to around 1856. In principle, there were three lectureships each year, on Logic, Philosophy and Rhetoric. These differed from the later individual lectures, in that they were appointments to a lectureship for a period of time, rather than an appointment for a one-off annual lecture. There was also a Mathematics lectureship which dated from an earlier time, while another term used was "Barnaby Lecturer", as the lecturers were elected on ]. A selection of the lecturers, who tended to have studied at Cambridge and be appointed after becoming Fellows of a College, is given below, with a full listing given in the sources.
*1683 ]
*1728 ]
*1748 ]
*1750 ]
*1790 ]


===Mathematics Lecturers===
==From 1858==
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*1865 ] On Radiation
*1550 ]
*1882 Literature and Science
*1593 ]
*1883 ]
*1641 ]
*1884 ] The Measurement of Human Faculty'
*1643 ]
*1894 ] Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods
{{Div col end}}
*1895 ] The Early Renaissance in England

*1901 ] English Law and the Renaissance
===Barnaby Lecturers===
*1902 ] On an inversion of ideas as to the structure of the Universe
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*1929 ] The Causal and the Casual in History
*1776 Thomas Starkie the Elder (Mathematics)<ref>Father of ].</ref>
*1937 ] The Meaning Of Prestige
*1738 ] (Mathematics)
*1941 ]
*1746 ] (Mathematics)
*1952 ] The Contribution of Medicine to our Idea of the Mind
*1755 ] (Mathematics)
*1758 ] (Mathematics)
*1763 ] (Mathematics)
*1765 ] (Mathematics)
*1770 ] (Mathematics)
*1783 ] (Mathematics)
*1789 ] (Mathematics)
*1807 ] (Mathematics)
*1831 ] (Mathematics)
*1842 ] (Mathematics)
*1846 ] (Mathematics)
*1851 ] (Mathematics)
*1855 ] (Mathematics)
{{Div col end}}

===Rede Lecturers===
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*1706 ] (Logic)
*1717 ] (Logic)
*1723 ] (Rhetoric)
*1730 ] (Rhetoric)
*1740 ] (Rhetoric)
*1763 ] (Philosophy)
*1764 ] (Rhetoric)
*1781 ] (Philosophy)
*1783 ] (Philosophy)
*1785 ] (Logic)
*1785 ] (Rhetoric)
*1794 ] (Logic)
*1796 ] (Logic)
*1798 ] (Logic)
*1803 ] (Rhetoric)
*1805 ] (Philosophy)
*1806 ] (Philosophy)
*1809 ] (Logic)
*1812 ] (Logic)
*1819 ] (Philosophy)
*1822 ] (Logic)
*1825 ] (Philosophy)
*1828 ] (Rhetoric)
*1837 ] (Philosophy)
*1838 ] (Philosophy)
*1843 ] (Philosophy)
*1844 ] (Rhetoric)
*1846 ] (Philosophy)
*1850 ] (Logic)
*1851 ] (Philosophy)
*1853 ] (Philosophy)
*1853 ] (Rhetoric)
{{Div col end}}

==New series==
From 1858, the lecture was re-established as a one-off annual lecture, delivered by a person appointed by the Vice-Chancellor of the university. The names of the appointees and the titles of their lectures are given below.

===1858-1899===
*1859 ] ''On the classifaction and geographical distribution of the Mammalia''
*1860 ] ''Life on the earth, its origin and succession''
*1861 ] ''The social and architectural history of Trinity College''
*1862 ] ''The cosmical features of terrestrial magnetism''
*1863 ] ''The correlation of the natural history sciences''
*1864 ] ''The late observations of total eclipses of the sun, and the inferences from them''
*1865 ] ''On Radiation''
*1866 ] ''The dissipation of energy''
*1867 ] ''The relation of national ethics to national art''
*1868 ] ''On the stratification of language''
*1869 ] ''On the results of spectrum analysis of the heavenly bodies''
*1870 ] ''On some chemical processes of forming organic compounds, with illustrations from the coal tar colours''
*1871 ] ''Recent solar discoveries''
*1872 ] ''The Unity of History''
*1873 ] ''Thermo-electricity''
*1874 ] ''Slavery''
*1875 ] ''The effects of observation of India upon modern European thought''
*1876 ] ''The monumental history of ancient Egypt''
*1877 ] ''On some of the results of the expedition of H.M.S. Challenger''
*1878 ] ''On the telephone''
*1879 ] 'The origin of life, illustrated by the life histories of the least and lowest organisms in nature'
*1880 ] 'Man, prehistoric, present, future'
*1881 ] ''The early Caliphate''
*1882 ] ''Literature and Science''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/comm/19th/Arnold.html|title = Literature and Science (1882)}}</ref>
*1883 ] '''The origin of the existing forms of animal life: construction or evolution?''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/SM5/Rede.html|title=The Rede Lecture (1883)}}</ref>
*1884 ] ''The Measurement of Human Faculty''
*1885 ] ''Mind and motion''
*1886 ] ''On the forms of seedlings and the causes to which they are due''
*1887 ] ''Greater Britain in the Georgian and in the Victorian era''
*1888 ] ''Applications of science to the protection of human life''
*1889 ] ''On some effects of the action of light on ponderable matter''
*1890 ] '']''
*1891 ] ''Natural religion in India''
*1892 ] ''The microscope's contributions to the earth's physical history''
*1893 ] ''Weariness''
*1894 ] '']''
*1895 ] '']''
*1896 ] ''Röntgen rays''
*1897 ] ''Recent researches on terrestrial magnetism''
*1898 ] ''The theatre in its relation to the state''
*1899 ] ''La théorie des ondes lumineuses: son influence sur la physique moderne''

===1900-1949===
*1900 ] ''Byzantine history in the early middle age''
*1901 ] '']''
*1902 ] ''On an inversion of ideas as to the structure of the Universe''
*1903 ] ''Napoleon III and the Second Empire''
*1904 ] ''The structure of metals''
*1905 ] ''Our true relationship with India''
*1906 ] ''The wars between Moslem and Christian for the possession of Asia Minor''
*1907 ] ''The art of architecture, and the training required to practise it''
*1908 ] ''An Austrian diplomatist in the fifties''
*1909 ] ''Charles Darwin as Geologist''
*1910 ] ''The parallel between the English and American Civil Wars''
*1911 ] '']''
*1912 ] ''The chorus in Greek tragedy''
*1913 ] ''Modern Parliamentary Eloquence''
*1914 ] ''St Bartholomew's Hospital in peace and war''
*1915 ] ''Ideals and characteristics of English culture''
*1916 ] ''The ancient cross-shafts of ] and ]''
*1917 ] ''Science and industry''
*1918 ] ''The Royal Navy, 1815–1915''
*1919 ], '']''
*1920 ] ''India at the crossways''
*1921 ] ''The air and its ways''
*1922 ] '']''
*1923 ] ''Clerk Maxwell's electromagnetic theory''
*1924 ] ''Byron''
*1925 ] ''Some notes on the evolution of the English novel''
*1926 ] ''] and modern art''
*1927 ] ''On stimulus in the economic life''
*1928 ] ''Thomas Day: an English disciple of Rousseau''
*1929 ] ''The Causal and the Casual in History''
*1930 ] ''The mysterious universe'', resulting in the book '']''
*1931 ] '']''<ref>Published as book in 1946</ref>
*1932 ] ''St. John of the Cross''
*1933 ] ''Brain and its mechanism''
*1934 ] ''Two ways of thinking''
*1935 ] ''The pace of progress''
*1936 ] ''The drama to-morrow''
*1937 ] ''The Meaning Of Prestige''
*1938 ] ''Virus diseases and viruses''
*1939 ] ''Some social and economic implications of the recent advances in medical science''
*1940 ] ''Some approaches to judgment in painting''
*1941 ] ''Virginia Woolf''
*1942 ] ''American opinion of the war''
*1943 ] ''Lytton Strachey's writings''
*1944 ] ''Plato and modern education''
*1945 ] ''National Parks and the countryside''
*1946 ] ''Terrestrial magnetism and the ionosphere''
*1947 ] ''The uses and abuses of economic planning''
*1948 ] ''Universities and the state''
*1949 ] ''Religion and turmoil''

===1950-1999===
*1950 ] ''Portrait of a Profession''
*1951 ] ''Inspiration and poetry''
*1952 ] ''The Contribution of Medicine to our Idea of the Mind''
*1953 ] ''The proper study of mankind''
*1954 ] ''Science and religion: a changing relationship''
*1955 ] ''Walter Pater - the Scholar Artist'' *1955 ] ''Walter Pater - the Scholar Artist''
*1956 ] ''The English Town in the Last Hundred Years''
*1959 ] The Two Cultures
*1957 ] ''Matthew Prior''
*1963 ] The Years of Challenge
*1958 ] ''The problems of world population''
*1978 ] Reflections on Atomic Energy History
*1959 ] '']''
*1960 ] ''Classicism''
*1961 ] ''Censors''
*1962 ] ''Planning''
*1963 ] The Years of Challenge
*1964 ] ''The oldest Irish tradition - a window on the early Iron Age''
*1965 ] ''Genetics and prehistory''
*1966 ] ''Why should we study the Anglo-Saxons?''
*1967 ] ''The university in the news''
*1968 ] ''The House of Lords and the Naval Prize Bill 1911''
*1969 ] ''The gap widens''
*1970 ] ''The artist grows old''
*1971 ] ''The discontinuities between the generations in History: their effect on the transmission of political experience''
*1972 None
*1973 ] ''Non-renewable resources - a dilemma''
*1974 ] ''Higher education for adults: where more means better''
*1975 ] ''The American in England: from Emerson to S. J. Perelman''
*1976 ] ''The golden thread of English Criminal Law: the burden of proof''
*1977 ] ''The historical experience''
*1978 ] ''Reflections on Atomic Energy History''
*1979 ] ''Philosophy, politics and administration''
*1980 ] ''Technology, employment, and change''
*1981 ] ''British universities: purposes, problems, and pressures''
*1982 ] Facts and Dogmas in Cosmology and Elsewhere *1982 ] Facts and Dogmas in Cosmology and Elsewhere
*1983 ] ''The increase of learning and other great objects''
*1984 ] ''A time for change''
*1985 ] ''The United Nations and international law''
*1986 ] ''Islands''
*1987 ] ''A reconsideration of the ideas underlying the international system''
*1988 ] ''Lord Jenkins of Hillhead; 'An Oxford view of Cambridge' ''
*1989 ] ''Communication''
*1990 ] ''What is Punishment for and How Does it Relate to the Concept of Community?''
*1991 ] ''Policy on Higher Education and Research''
*1993 ] A Tale of Three Cities *1993 ] A Tale of Three Cities
*1994 ] ''Nationalism and the Nation State''
*1998 ]
*1996 ] ''Civil Society: Renewal At Work''
*1997 ] ''Globalisation vs. Sovereignty? The European Response''
*1998 ] ''International Law in a Changing Legal System''

===2000 onwards===
*2009 ] ''See China in the Light of Her Development''
*2010 ] ''The Two Cultures Fifty Years On''
*2011 ] ''The Purpose and Conduct of Science''
*2012 ] ''The Purpose of the University: Knowledge and Human Wellbeing in the Modern Economy''
*2015 ] ''Two Wars and the Long Twentieth Century: the United States, 1861–65; Britain 1914–18''
*2017 ] ''Facts or Fear? The Case for Facts''
*2019 ] ''Reasons for Hope''


==Notes== ==Notes==
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Latest revision as of 17:25, 8 December 2024

The Sir Robert Rede's Lecturer is an annual appointment to give a public lecture, the Sir Robert Rede's Lecture (usually Rede Lecture) at the University of Cambridge. It is named for Sir Robert Rede, who was Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in the sixteenth century.

Initial series

The initial series of lectures ranges from around 1668 to around 1856. In principle, there were three lectureships each year, on Logic, Philosophy and Rhetoric. These differed from the later individual lectures, in that they were appointments to a lectureship for a period of time, rather than an appointment for a one-off annual lecture. There was also a Mathematics lectureship which dated from an earlier time, while another term used was "Barnaby Lecturer", as the lecturers were elected on St Barnabas Day. A selection of the lecturers, who tended to have studied at Cambridge and be appointed after becoming Fellows of a College, is given below, with a full listing given in the sources.

Mathematics Lecturers

Barnaby Lecturers

Rede Lecturers

New series

From 1858, the lecture was re-established as a one-off annual lecture, delivered by a person appointed by the Vice-Chancellor of the university. The names of the appointees and the titles of their lectures are given below.

1858-1899

1900-1949

1950-1999

2000 onwards

Notes

  1. See . The series was put on its current footing in 1858.
  2. Father of Thomas Starkie.
  3. "Literature and Science (1882)".
  4. "The Rede Lecture (1883)".
  5. Published as book in 1946

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