Gresham Professor of Geometry

The Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London, gives free educational lectures to the general public. The college was founded for this purpose in 1597, when it appointed seven professors; this has since increased to ten and in addition the college now has visiting professors.

The Professor of Geometry is always appointed by the City of London Corporation.

List of Gresham Professors of Geometry

Note, years given as, say, 1596/7 refer to Old Style and New Style dates.

Raymond Flood, Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, 2012-2016
NameStarted
1Henry BriggsMarch 1596/7
2Peter Turner25 July 1620
3John Greaves22 February 1630/31
4Ralph Button15 November 1643
5Daniel Whistler13 June 1648
6Laurence Rooke7 August 1657
7Isaac Barrow16 July 1662
8Arthur Dacres20 May 1664
9Robert Hooke20 March 1664/5
10Andrew Tooke5 July 1704
11Thomas Tomlinson3 July 1729
12George Newland27 Jan 1731/2
13William Roman28 Nov 1749
14Wilfred Clarke28 August 1759
15S. Kittleby5 March 1765
16Samuel Birch[1]5 July 1808
17Robert Pitt Edkins[2]22 July 1848
18Benjamin Morgan Cowie[3]18 Dec 1854
19Karl Pearson15 Dec 1890
20William Henry Wagstaff[4]13 June 1894
1939–45 Lectures in abeyance
21Louis Melville Milne-Thomson29 May 1946
22Thomas A. A. Broadbent1956
23Sir Bryan Thwaites1969
24Clive W. Kilmister1972
25Sir Christopher Zeeman1988
26Ian Stewart1994
27Sir Roger Penrose FRS1 Sept 1998
28Harold Thimbleby1 Sept 2001
29Robin Wilson1 Sept 2004
30John D. Barrow1 Sept 2008
31Raymond Flood[5]2012
32Chris Budd OBE[6]2016
33Sarah Hart[7]2020

References

Notes

  1. "Birch, Samuel (BRC798S)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. "Edkins, Robert Pitt (EDKS826RP)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. "Cowie, Benjamin Morgan (CWY833BM)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  4. "Wagstaff, William Henry (WGSF885WH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  5. "Gresham College Press Release, 5 July 2012".
  6. "Gresham Professor of Geometry".
  7. "Gresham Professor of Geometry".

Further reading

  • Ward, John (1740). The Lives of the Professors of Gresham College. New York & London: Johnson Reprint Corporation.
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