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| *1950 ] ''Portrait of a Profession'' | *1950 ] ''Portrait of a Profession'' | ||
| *1952 ] The Contribution of Medicine to our Idea of the Mind | *1952 ] The Contribution of Medicine to our Idea of the Mind | ||
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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 University of Cambridge.
Initial series
- 1683 John Naylor
- 1728 William Neville
- 1748 John Neville
- 1750 Richard Newbon
- 1790 Martin Joseph Naylor
From 1858
- 1865 John Tyndall On Radiation
- 1872 The Unity of History
- 1875 Henry James Sumner Maine
- 1882 Matthew Arnold Literature and Science
- 1883 T. H. Huxley
- 1888 William Muir ''The Early Caliphate and Rise of Islam
- 1884 Francis Galton The Measurement of Human Faculty
- 1894 John Willis Clark Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods
- 1895 Mandell Creighton The Early Renaissance in England
- 1899 Marie Alfred Cornu
- 1901 Frederic William Maitland English Law and the Renaissance
- 1902 Osborne Reynolds On an inversion of ideas as to the structure of the Universe
- 1907 J. J. Thomson
- 1909 Archibald Geikie Charles Darwin as Geologist
- 1913 George Nathaniel Curzon Modern Parliamentary Eloquence
- 1919 Science and War
- 1922 William Ralph Inge The Victorian Age
- 1929 John Buchan The Causal and the Casual in History
- 1937 Harold Nicolson The Meaning Of Prestige
- 1941 E. M. Forster Virginia Woolf
- 1943 Max Beerbohm Lytton Strachey
- 1946 George Stuart Gordon Robert Bridges
- 1950 Edward Bridges Portrait of a Profession
- 1952 W. Russell Brain The Contribution of Medicine to our Idea of the Mind
- 1955 Lord David Cecil Walter Pater - the Scholar Artist
- 1956 John Betjeman The English Town in the Last Hundred Years
- 1957 R. W. Ketton-Cremer Matthew Prior
- 1959 C. P. Snow The Two Cultures
- 1963 Douglas Logan The Years of Challenge
- 1978 Margaret Gowing Reflections on Atomic Energy History
- 1982 Fred Hoyle Facts and Dogmas in Cosmology and Elsewhere
- 1993 L. M. Singhvi A Tale of Three Cities
- 1996 Mary Robinson
- 1998 Rosalyn Higgins