Regius Professor of Medicine (Oxford)
The Regius Professor of Medicine is an appointment held at the University of Oxford. The chair was founded by Henry VIII of England by 1546, and until the 20th century the title was Regius Professor of Physic. Henry VIII established five Regius Professorships in the University, the others being the Regius chairs of Divinity, Civil Law, Hebrew and Greek.
Holders[]
- 1546–1554 John Warner
- 1554–1561 Thomas Frauncis (or Frances/Francis) (c.1519–1574)
- 1561–1582 Walter Bayley (1529–1593)
- 1582–1597 (d.1619)
- 1597–1612 (1556–1619)
- 1612–1647 (1575–1647), first Master of Pembroke
- 1647–1665 Sir Thomas Clayton the Younger (c. 1611–1693), Warden of Merton
- 1665–1681 (1618–1681)
- 1681–1698 (1647–1698)
- 1698–1718 Thomas Hoy (b.1659, d. in or after 1721)
- 1718–1729
- 1729–1730
- 1730–1758
- 1759–1772
- 1772–1801
- 1801–1822 Sir Christopher Pegge
- 1822–1851 John Kidd
- 1851–1857 James Adey Ogle
- 1858–1894 Sir Henry Wentworth Acland
- 1895–1904 Sir John Scott Burdon-Sanderson
- 1905–1919 Sir William Osler
- 1920–1927 Sir Archibald Garrod
- 1928–1943 Sir Edward Farquhar Buzzard
- 1943–1948 Sir Arthur William Mickle Ellis
- 1948–1954 Arthur Duncan Gardner
- 1956–1968 Sir George Pickering
- 1969–1979 Sir Richard Doll
- 1979–1992 Sir Henry Harris
- 1992–2000 Sir David J. Weatherall
- 2002– Sir John Irving Bell, incumbent
See also[]
- Regius Professor of Medicine (Aberdeen)
- Regius Professor of Physic (Cambridge)
- Regius Professor of Medicine (Dublin)
- Regius Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics, Glasgow
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- Professorships in medicine
- 1546 establishments in England
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