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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 Sir Robert Rede, ] in the sixteenth century. | ||
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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. It is named for Sir Robert Rede, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in the sixteenth century.
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
- 1867 John Ruskin
- 1872 The Unity of History
- 1875 Henry James Sumner Maine
- 1882 Matthew Arnold Literature and Science
- 1883 T. H. Huxley
- 1884 Francis Galton The Measurement of Human Faculty
- 1885 George John Romanes
- 1886 John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
- 1888 William Muir The Early Caliphate and Rise of Islam
- 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
- 1903 George Walter Prothero
- 1907 J. J. Thomson
- 1909 Archibald Geikie Charles Darwin as Geologist
- 1913 George Nathaniel Curzon Modern Parliamentary Eloquence
- 1918 Louis Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven
- 1919 Science and War
- 1922 William Ralph Inge The Victorian Age
- 1929 John Buchan The Causal and the Casual in History
- 1932 Edgar Allison Peers St. John of the Cross
- 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
- 1997 Leon Brittan Globalisation vs. Sovereignty? The European Response
- 1998 Rosalyn Higgins