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| *1929 ] ''The Causal and the Casual in History'' | *1929 ] ''The Causal and the Casual in History'' | ||
| *1930 ] ''The mysterious universe'' | *1930 ] ''The mysterious universe'' | ||
| ⚫ | *1931 ] '']''<ref>Published as book in 1946</ref> | ||
| *1932 ] ''St. John of the Cross'' | *1932 ] ''St. John of the Cross'' | ||
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*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'' | *1941 ] ''Virginia Woolf'' | ||
| *1943 ] ''Lytton Strachey'' | *1943 ] ''Lytton Strachey'' | ||
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| ==1950-1999== | ==1950-1999== | ||
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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
1858-1899
- 1859 Richard Owen On the classifaction and geographical distribution of the Mammalia
- 1860 John Phillips Life on the earth, its origin and succession
- 1861 Robert Willis The social and architectural history of Trinity College
- 1862 Edward Sabine The cosmical features of terrestrial magnetism
- 1863 David Thomas Ansted The correlation of the natural history sciences
- 1864 George Biddell Airy The late observations of total eclipses of the sun, and the inferences from them
- 1865 John Tyndall On Radiation
- 1866 William Thomson The dissipation of energy
- 1867 John Ruskin The relation of national ethics to national art
- 1868 Friedrich Max Müller On the stratification of language
- 1869 William Huggins On the results of spectrum analysis of the heavenly bodies
- 1870 William Allen Miller On some chemical processes of forming organic compounds, with illustrations from the coal tar colours
- 1871 Joseph Norman Lockyer Recent solar discoveries
- 1872 Edward Augustus Freeman The Unity of History
- 1873 Peter Guthrie Tait Thermo-electricity
- 1874 Samuel White Baker Slavery
- 1875 Henry James Sumner Maine The effects of observation of India upon modern European thought
- 1876 Samuel Birch The monumental history of ancient Egypt
- 1877 Charles Wyville Thomson On some of the results of the expedition of H.M.S. Challenger
- 1878 James Clerk Maxwell On the telephone
- 1879 William Henry Dallinger 'The origin of life, illustrated by the life histories of the least and lowest organisms in nature'
- 1880 George Murray Humphry 'Man, prehistoric, present, future'
- 1881 William Muir The early Caliphate
- 1882 Matthew Arnold Literature and Science
- 1883 Thomas Henry Huxley 'The origin of the existing forms of animal life: construction or evolution?
- 1884 Francis Galton The Measurement of Human Faculty
- 1885 George John Romanes Mind and motion
- 1886 John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury On the forms of seedlings and the causes to which they are due
- 1887 John Robert Seeley Greater Britain in the Georgian and in the Victorian era
- 1888 William Muir The Early Caliphate and Rise of Islam
- 1889 George Gabriel Stokes On some effects of the action of light on ponderable matter
- 1890 Richard Claverhouse Jebb Erasmus
- 1891 Alfred Comyn Lyall Natural religion in India
- 1892 Thomas George Bonney The microscope's contributions to the earth's physical history
- 1893 Michael Foster Weariness
- 1894 John Willis Clark Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods
- 1895 Mandell Creighton The Early Renaissance in England
- 1896 Joseph John Thomsom Röntgen rays
- 1897 Arthur William Rücker Recent researches on terrestrial magnetism
- 1898 Henry Irving The theatre in its relation to the state
- 1899 Marie Alfred Cornu La théorie des ondes lumineuses: son influence sur la physique moderne
1900-1949
- 1900 Frederic Harrison Byzantine history in the early middle age
- 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 Napoleon III and the Second Empire
- 1904 James Alfred Ewing The structure of metals
- 1905 Francis Edward Younghusband Our true relationship with India
- 1906 William Mitchell Ramsey The wars between Moslem and Christian for the possession of Asia Minor
- 1907 Aston Webb The art of achitecture, and the training required to practise it
- 1908 Ernest Mason Satow An Austrian diplomatist in the fifties
- 1909 Archibald Geikie Charles Darwin as Geologist
- 1910 Charles Harding Firth The parallel between the English and American Civil Wars
- 1911 Charles Algernon Parsons Steam turbines
- 1912 George Gilbert Aimé Murray The chorus in Greek tragedy
- 1913 George Nathaniel Curzon Modern Parliamentary Eloquence
- 1914 Norman Moore St Bartholomew's Hospital in peace and war
- 1915 Frederic George Kenyon Ideals and characteristics of English culture
- 1916 George Forrest Browne The ancient cross-shafts of Bewcastle and Ruthwell
- 1917 Richard Tetley Glazebrook Science and industry
- 1918 Louis Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven The Royal Navy, 1815-1915
- 1919 Lord Moulton, Science and War
- 1920 James Scorgie Meston, 1st Baron Meston India at the crossways
- 1921 William Napier Shaw The air and its ways
- 1922 William Ralph Inge The Victorian Age
- 1923 Hendrick Antoon Lorentz Clerk Maxwell's electromagnetic theory
- 1924 Herbert Hensley Henson Byron
- 1925 Hugh Walpole Some notes on the evolution of the English novel
- 1926 Arthur Mayger Hind Claude Lorrain and modern art
- 1927 Josiah Stamp On stimulus in the economic life
- 1928 Michael Ernest Sadler Thomas Day: an English disciple of Rousseau
- 1929 John Buchan The Causal and the Casual in History
- 1930 James Hopwood Jeans The mysterious universe
- 1931 George Stuart Gordon Robert Bridges
- 1932 Edgar Allison Peers St. John of the Cross
- 1933 Charles Scott Sherrington Brain and its mechanism
- 1934 Lord Macmillan Two ways of thinking
- 1935 Daniel Hall The pace of progress
- 1936 Cedric Webster Hardwicke The drama to-morrow
- 1937 Harold George Nicolson The Meaning Of Prestige
- 1938 Patrick Playfair Laidlaw Virus diseases and viruses
- 1939 Edward Mellanby Some social and economic implications of the recent advances in medical science
- 1940 Augustus Moore Daniel Some approaches to judgment in painting
- 1941 E. M. Forster Virginia Woolf
- 1943 Max Beerbohm Lytton Strachey
1950-1999
- 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