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Revision as of 06:55, 24 December 2006 by Charles Matthews (talk | contribs) (→From 1858: expand)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)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 ThomasAnsted '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 Locker Recent solar discoveries
- 1872 Edward Augustus Freeman The Unity of History
- 1878 James Clerk Maxwell On the telephone
- 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
1900-1999
- 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