Lectureships: Special Foundations

Lectureships are of two kinds. The post of University Lecturer came into being with the statutes of 1882; appointment is by the General Board in consultation with the appropriate faculty or department (or, in earlier years, Special Board). Others, listed in the Historical Register and its Supplements under 'Special Foundations' are temporary appointments, with the appointed lecturer giving either a single lecture or a single course of lectures annually.

 Agriculture, History and Economics of, Gilbey Lectureship in

Established in 1896 by Sir Walter Gilbey, President of the Royal Agricultural Society, with a sum sufficient to give an honorarium of £25 a year for twenty-one years to a Lecturer on Agricultural History and Economics. Appointment (by the Managing Syndicate for the Examinations in the Science and Practice of Agriculture, in consultation with the President for the time being of the Royal Agricultural Society) was for not more than three years at a time, and was to end at the end of the 21-year period. By grace of 4 June 1921 the lecturer was to be appointed by the Special Board for Agriculture and Forestry, and the duties of the Managing Syndicate were transferred to the Special Board. The lectureship having lapsed was re-established by grace 4 of 14 November 1925 and by grace of 30 November 1929 it was decided that the normal limitation of tenure of University Lectureships should apply to this lectureship also. From 1921 the holders are listed with University Lecturers.

1897            Clarke, Ernest, Sir
1901            Smith, H. Herbert
1904            Nicholson, Joseph Shield
1907            Craigie, Patrick George, Major
1910            Salter, Frank Reyner
1912            Fay, Charles Ryle


 Bibliography, Sandars Readership in

Established by a bequest of Samuel Sandars, M.A., d. 1894, accepted by grace of 22 November 1894. The electors are the Vice-Chancellor, the Master of Trinity (when not Vice-Chancellor) and the members of the Library Syndicate. For further details of the lecturers and of their logic topics, go to http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/hobo/ and click on 'Sandars' under 'Resources'.

1895            Thompson, Edward Maunde, Sir
1896            Wake, Charles Henry Middleton-
1897            Stevenson, William Henry
1898            Duff, Edward Gordon
1899            Clark, John Willis
1900            Kenyon, Frederic George, Sir
1901            Thompson, Henry Yates
1902            James, Montague Rhodes
1903            Duff, Edward Gordon     (again)
1904            Thompson, Henry Yates     (again)
1905            Thompson, Edward Maunde, Sir     (again)
1906            Maitland, Frederic William
1907, 1908      Jenkinson, Francis John Henry
1909            Madan, Falconer
1910            Lindsay, Wallace Martin
1911            Duff, Edward Gordon     (again)
1912            Cowley, Arthur Ernest
1913            Greg, Walter Wilson
1914            Loew, E. A.
1915            Pollard, Alfred William     (in place of Konrad Haebler)
1916-20         Suspended
1921            Hulme, E. Wyndham
1922            Bolland, William Craddock
1923            James, Montague Rhodes     (again)
1924            Walker, Emery
1925            Minns, Ellis Hovell, Sir
1926            Esdaile, Arundell James Kennedy
1927            Hobson, Geoffrey Dudley
1928            McKerrow, Ronald Brunlees
1929            Ricci, Seymour de
1930            Scholderer, Julius Victor
1931            Morison, Stanley
1932            Wilson, John Dover
1933            Keynes, Geoffrey Langdon
1934            Millar, Eric George
1935            Gaselee, Stephen, Sir
1936            Gordon, Cosmo Alexander
1937            Sadleir, Michael
1938            Sisson, Charles Jasper
1939            Creswick, Harry Richardson
1940            Election suspended
1947            Carter, John Waynflete
1948            Wormald, Francis
1950            Williams, Harold Herbert
1951            Bennett, Henry Stanley
1952            Oates, John Claud Trewinard
1953            Goldschmidt, Ernst Philip
1954            Roberts, Sydney Castle
1955            Ker, Neil Ripley
1956            Lewis, Wilmarth Sheldon
1957            Bowers, Fredson Thayer
1958            Pollard, Graham
1959            Hunt, Richard William
1960            Roberts, Colin Henderson
1961            King, Alexander Hyatt
1962            Norton, Frederick John
1963            Sparrow, John Hanbury Angus
1964            Stearn, William Thomas
1965            Oates, John Claud Trewinard
1966            Smith, Sydney
1967            Nixon, Howard Millar
1968            Dickins, Bruce
1969            Munby, Alan Noel Latimer
1970            Gilmour, John Scott Lennox
1971-72         Stopp, Frederick John
1972-73         Hoskin, Michael Anthony
1973-74         Simmons, John Simon Gabriel
1974-75         Hobson, Anthony
1975-76         McKenzie, Donald Francis
1976-77         Wells, James M.
1977-78         Foxon, David Fairweather
1978-79         Gaskell, John Philip Wellesley
1979-80         Dreyfus, John
1980-81         Kirsop, Wallace
1981-82         Bond, William Henry
1981-82         McLean, John David Ruari McDowall Hardie
1982-83         Isaac, Peter Charles Gerald
1984-85         Alexander, Jonathan James Graham
1985-86         Mason, John Harley-
1986-87         Leigh, Ralph Alexander
1987-88         Owen, Dorothy Mary
1988-89         Ratcliffe, Frederick William
1989-90         Page, Raymond Ian
1990-91         Brewer, Derek Stanley


 Cayley Lecturer

1903            Baker, Henry Frederick     (elected Lowndean Professor 1914)
1914            Hardy, Godfrey Harold
1920            Littlewood, John Edensor


 Christian Theology, Hulsean Lectureship in

Established by Statute E, VI, and adopted by grace of 21 June 1927. The lecturer is elected every second year, for a two-year term, and may be re-elected after an interval of six years. During the period of office the lecturer is required to deliver a course of not fewer than four nor more than eight lectures on some branch of Christian Theology. The stipend is derived from the Hulsean Fund. By grace of 11 December 1954 the lecturer was no longer obliged to publish his lectures, but was to deposit a printed or typewritten copy in the University Library.

1928            Scott, Charles Archibald Anderson
1931            Macdonald, Allan John Smith
1933            Wood, Herbert George
1935            Creed, John Martin
1937            Burnaby, John
1939            Neill, Stephen Charles
1941            Election suspended
1946            Neill, Stephen Charles
1947            Dewick, Edward Chisholm
1949            Chadwick, William Owen, Sir
1950            Thouless, Robert Henry
1952            Browne, Laurence Edward
1954            Chadwick, Henry
1956            Kraemer, Hendrik
1958            Dugmore, Clifford William
1960            Ackroyd, Peter Runham
1962            Woods, George Frederick
1964            Baelz, Peter Richard
1966            Edwards, David Lawrence
1968            Robinson, John Arthur Thomas
1970            Legh, Kathleen Louise Wood-
1973            Wiles, Maurice Frank
1975            Hinchcliff, Peter Bingham
1977            Davis, Charles
1979            Stephenson, Alan Malcolm George
1981            Kendal, Gordon McGregor
1983            Thompson, David Michael
1985            Nicholls, David Gwyn
1987            Dalferth, Ingolf Ulrich
1989            Barton, John, Rev. Dr


 Classics, J. H. Gray Lectureship in

Endowed by a gift in 1926 of £1000 from the Cambridge University Rugby Union Football Club to commemorate the services of the Reverend Canon J. H. Gray as President of the Club since 1895. It was Canon Gray's wish that the income of the fund should be at the disposal of the Faculty of Classics to provide lectures, or courses of lectures, on subjects not adequately catered for in the regular routine.

1928            Gardiner, Edward Norman
1929            Murray, George Gilbert Aimé
1930            Collingwood, Robin George
1930            Gaselee, Stephen, Sir
1931            Halliday, William Reginald
1932            Beazley, John Davidson
1934            Baynes, Norman Hepburn
1936            Cook, Arthur Bernard
1936            Fraenkel, Eduard David Mortier
1937            Boethius, Carl Axel
1938            Dodds, Eric Robertson
1939            Henry, Robert Mitchell
1940            Appointment suspended
1947            Ashmole, Bernard
1948            Trypanis, Constantine Athanasius
1949            Gery, Henry Theodore Wade
1950            Roberts, Colin Henderson
1951            Jones, Arnold Hugh Martin
1954            Gomme, Arnold Wycombe
1955            Grant, Michael
1956            Ingram, Reginald Pepys Winnington-
1957            Walbank, Frank William
1958            Sinclair, Thomas Alan
1959            Dover, Kenneth James
1960            Thompson, Homer Armstrong
1961            Jones, Peter Hugh Jefferd Lloyd-
1962            Webster, Thomas Bertram Lonsdale
1963            Momigliano, Arnaldo Dante
1964            Mynors, Roger Aubrey Baskerville, Sir
1965            Carpenter, Rhys
1966            White, Adrian Nicholas Sherwin-
1967            Daube, David
1968            Kraay, Colin Mackennal
1969            Cook, John Manuel
1970            Lejeune, Michel
1971            Turner, Eric Gardner
1972            Dihle, Albrecht
1973            Croix, Geoffrey Ernest Maurice de Ste
1974            Kirk, Geoffrey Stephen
1975            Goold, George P.
1976            Raven, John Earle
1977            Hopkins, Morris Keith
1978            Sullivan, John Patrick
1979            Burkert, Walter
1980            Wedeking, Ernst Homan-
1981            Russell, Donald Andrew Frank Moore
1982            Parsons, Peter John
1983            Finley, Moses, Sir
1984            Savidis, George Panos
1985            Honoré, Antony Maurice
1986            Williams, Bernard Arthur Owen
1987            Rudd, Niall
1988            Lyons, John, Sir
1989            Cunliffe, Barrington Windsor
1990            Trapp, Joseph Burney


 Commonwealth Studies, Smuts Memorial Lectureship in

By grace of 2 May 1959 the Managers of the Smuts Memorial Fund (created by grace 3 of 23 February 1952 in memory of Jan Christiaan Smuts, sometime Chancellor of the University), were authorised to appoint a Smuts Memorial Lecturer from time to time who would lecture on some aspect of Commonwealth Studies.

1960            Menzies, Robert Gordon, Rt Hon.
1963            Deshmukh, Chintaman, Sir
1964            Hancock, Keith, Sir
1966            Caradon, Lord
1967            Oppenheimer, Harry
1969            Yew, Lee Kuan
1970            Pearson, Lester, Rt Hon.
1971            Robinson, Edward Austin Gossage
1975            Nicol, Davidson
1976            Mansergh, Philip Nicholas Seton
1977            Windeyer, Victor, Sir
1984            Cowen, Zelman, Rt Hon. Sir
1985            Béteille, André
1987-88         Wilson, Francis
1988-89         Zines, Leslie Ronald
1990-91         Harris, Wilson


 Economic History, Ellen McArthur Lectureship in

Established by Statute, approved by grace of 25 March 1961 and by the Queen in Council on 27 November 1961, empowering the University to use surplus income from the Ellen McArthur Fund for the establishment of a biennial course of lectures on some aspect of Economic History.

1963-64         Landes, D. S.
1967-68         Gershenkron, Alexander
1969-70         Miller, Edward
1971-72         Hobsbawm, Eric John Ernest
1974-75         Cipolla, Carlo M.
1976-77         Saul, Samuel Berrick
1978-79         Ladurie, Emmanuel Le Roy
1980-81         Milward, Alan Steele
1982-83         Crouzet, François
1984-85         Berend, Ivan
1987            Wrigley, Edward Anthony, Sir
1989            Wee, Herman Van Der


 Economics, Alfred Marshall Lectureship in

Established by grace of 11 February 1933. The lecturer is appointed annually by the Faculty Board of Economics and Politics and is required to give in full term three lectures dealing with some development of Economics, or of Economic History, or of some kindred subject.

1932            Salter, James Arthur, Sir
1933            Copland, Douglas Berry
1934            Tawney, Richard Henry
1935            Bowley, Arthur Lyon
1936            Ohlin, Bertil
1937            Hawtrey, Ralph George
1938            Zeeland, Paul van
1939            Butler, Harold Beresford
1940            Appointment suspended
1946            Viner, J.
1947            Robbins, Lionel Charles
1948            Hopkins, Richard Valentine Nind, Rt Hon. Sir
1949            Marshall, Thomas Humphrey
1950            Hancock, William Keith
1950-51         Myrdal, Gunnar
1951-52         Tinbergen, J.
1952-53         Pigou, Arthur Cecil
1953-54         Parsons, Talcott
1954-55         Hicks, John Richard
1955-56         Easterbrook, William Thomas
1956-57         Marjolin, Robert Ernest
1957-58         Fellner, William
1958-59         Lundberg, Erik
1959-60         Habakkuk, Hrothgar John
1960-61         Robertson, Dennis Holme, Sir
1961-62         Brown, Ernest Henry Phelps
1962-63         Swan, Trevor Winchester
1963-64         Solow, Robert Merton
1964-65         Prebisch, Raul
1965-66         Robinson, Edward Austin Gossage
1966-67         Aron, Raymond
1967-68         Kerr, Clark
1968-69         Kuznets, Simon Smith
1969-70         Arrow, Kenneth J.
1970-71         Zweezy, Paul M.
1971-72         Harrod, Roy, Sir
1972-73         Dobb, Maurice Herbert
1973-74         Mundell, Robert
1974-75         Leijonhufvud, Axel
1975-76         Sik, Ota
1976-77         Gurley, John
1977-78         Malinvaud, Edmond
1978-79         Mandel, Ernest
1979-80         Hobsbawm, Eric John Ernest
1980-81         Morishima, Michio
1981-82         Vacant
1983-84         Marglin, Stephen
1984-85         Lucas, Robert E.
1985-86         Kindleberger, Charles Poor
1986-87         Taylor, Lance Jerome


 Hausa Language, Lectureship in

Endowed for three years by the Executive Committee of the Hausa Association in May 1896, and renewed for three years by graces of 14 December 1889 and 18 December 1902 and for a final year by grace of 30 January 1906. The Lectureship then lapsed.

1897-1906       Robinson, Charles Henry


 History, George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectureship in

Established by grace of 9 March 1957 from contributions in recognition of the services to the University and to the study of history of Dr G. M. Trevelyan, sometime Master of Trinity College and Regius Professor of Modern History. The income of the fund is applied to meet the cost of a biennial course of historical lectures.

1958-59         Rowse, Alfred Leslie
1960-61         Carr, Edward Hallett
1962-63         Geyl, Pieter
1964-65         Roper, Hugh Redwald Trevor-     Lord Dacre of Glanton
1966-67         Deutscher, Isaac
1968-69         Venturi, Franco
1969-70         Bailyn, Bernard
1972-73         Momigliano, Arnaldo Dante
1974-75         Stone, Lawrence
1978-79         Thomas, Keith Vivian
1980-81         Southern, Richard, Sir
1982-83         Elliott, John Huxtable
1984-85         Constable, Giles
1986-87         Smith, Denis Mack
1988-89         McManners, John


 Kingsley Martin Memorial Lectureship

Established by grace of 9 June 1971. The lecturer is required to give one lecture in Full Term on a South Asian topic, preference being given to a topic relating to Burma.

1971-72         Woodruff, Alan Waller
1972-73         Leach, Edmund Ronald, Sir
1973-74         Robinson, Edward Austin Gossage
1974-75         Nehru, Braj Kumar, His Excellency
1975-76         Fisher, Charles Alfred
1976-77         Ungphakorn, Puey
1977-78         Béteille, André
1978-79         Low, Donald Anthony
1980-81         Jones, Wyndraeth Humphreys Morris-
1981-82         Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraj
1982-83         Brass, Paul R.
1983-84         Johnson, Gordon
1984-85         Farmer, Bertram Hughes
1985-86         Tinker, Hugh
1986            Gordhanbhai, Indaprasad
1987            Thapar, Romila
1988            Toye, John Francis Joseph
1990            Bayly, Christopher Alan


 Literature, Leslie Stephen Lectureship in

Endowed by the sum of £630 contributed by friends of the late Sir Leslie Stephen, accepted by grace of 27 April 1905. The lecturer is appointed every second year by the Vice-Chancellor, the Master of Trinity Hall, the Knightbridge Professor and the Regius Professor of Modern History, the Master of Trinity substituting should the Master of Trinity Hall be Vice-Chancellor. The subject of 'Literature' was to include criticism, biography and ethics.

1907            Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir
1909            Bradley, Andrew Cecil     (not delivered on account of Bradley's illness)
1910            Ker, William Paton
1911            Lee, Sidney, Sir
1913            Warren, Thomas Herbert
1915            Dixon, William Macneile
1917            Whibley, Charles
1919            Mackail, John William
1921            No appointment
1923            Grierson, Herbert John Clifford
1925            Strachey, Giles Lytton
1927            Taylor, Alfred Edward
1929            Abercrombie, Lascelles
1931            Masefield, John
1933            Housman, Alfred Edward
1935            Cecil, David, Lord
1937            MacCarthy, Charles Otto Desmond
1937            Nicolson, Harold George, Hon.
1939            Wilson, John Dover
1941            Gordon, George Stuart
1943            No appointment
1949            Young, George Malcolm
1950            Knox, Edmund George Valpy
1953            Bryant, Arthur
1955            Bennett, John Wheeler Wheeler-
1957            Wedgwood, Cicely Veronica
1959            Namier, Lewis Bernstein, Sir
1961            Taylor, Alan John Percivale
1963            Wilson, Angus
1965            Clark, George Norman, Sir
1966-67         Murdoch, Iris
1968-69         Blake, Robert Norman William
1970-71         Hampshire, Stuart Newton
1973-74         Bell, Quentin
1974-75         Bullock, Alan Louis Charles, Sir
1975-76         Bullock, Alan Louis Charles, Sir     Lord Bullock
1977-78         Berlin, Isaiah, Sir
1979            Wollheim, Richard Arthur
1979-80         Gittings, Robert
1981-82         Dacre of Glatton, Lord     (Trevor-Roper, Hugh Redwald)
1983-84         Warnock, Mary     Baroness Warnock
1985-86         Steiner, George
1988            Heaney, Seamus
1989            Gilbert, Martin John


 Michael Perkins Lectureship

Established by grace of 5 February 1949 and provided for from a fund given by the Rev. J. H. T. Perkins in memory of his son, Michael Gerard Laurence Perkins, in 1936. The fund had previously been devoted to the provision of a prize. The lecturer is appointed annually and is to give one lecture dealing with original investigation of interpretation of the natural history of animals.

1940            Hardy, A. C.     'Insects and their aerial environment'
1953            Young, John Zachary     'Form discrimination and memory in octopus'
1959            Koshtoyants, Ch. S.
1960            Callan, Harold Garnet
1963            Denton, E. J.     Dr
1968            Hoyle, Graham
1982            Kandel, Eric Richard
1984            Mountcastle, Vernon Benjamin


 Mordell Lectureship [in Pure Mathematics]

Established by grace of 12 November 1969. The lecturer is appointed for one year and is required to give one lecture on some aspect of or topic in pure mathematics.

1969            Cassels, John William Scott
1970-71         Rogers, Claude Ambrose
1971-72         Zariski, O.
1972-73         Halmos, P.
1973-74         Atiyah, Michael Francis, (Sir)
1974-75         Hirzebruch, Friedrich E. P.
1975-76         Chung, Kai Lai
1976-77         Choquet, Gustave
1977-78         Tits, Jacques
1978-79         Erdös, Paul
1979-80         Lewis, Donald J.
1980-81         Baumslag, Gilbert
1982            Kahane, Jean Pierre
1983            Taylor, Samuel James
1984            Haefliger, André
1985            Coates, John Henry
1986            Burkholder, Donald L.
1987            Jones, Vaughan F. R.
1988            Baker, Alan
1989            Green, James Alexander
1990            Schrijver, Alexander


 Organic Chemistry, Morrell Lectureship in

Established by grace of 22 February 1958 from the bequest of Robert Selby Morrell, formerly Fellow of Gonville and Caius. The lecturer is appointed from time to time by the Faculty Board of Physics and Chemistry.

1959-60         Woodward, Robert Burns
1962-63         Westheimer, Frank Henry


 Pastoral Theology, Lecturer in

Established at his own expense for the year 1883 by Charles Anthony Swainson, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, the courses were subsequently financed by a contribution to the Special Board for Divinity (which appoints) from the Financial Board (except in 1893, when they were financed by an anonymous private donor). Further details of the lecturers may be found in the Historical Register and its supplements.

1883            How, William Walsham
1884            Norris, John Pilkington
1885            Gott, John
1886            Maclear, George Frederick
1887            Blunt, R. F. L.     (King's College, London)
1888            Maclagan, William Dalrymple
1889            James, Herbert
1890            Jacob, Edgar
1891            Leeke, Edward Tucker
1892            Mason, Arthur James
1893            Gibson, Edgar Charles Sumner
1894            Carpenter, William Boyd
1895            Ingram, Arthur Foley Winnington
1896            Body, George
1897            Chavasse, Francis James
1898            Gore, Charles
1899            Kennion, George Wyndham
1900            Newbolt, William Charles Edmund
1901            Knox, Edmund Arbuthnot
1902            Wilson, James Maurice
1903            Lang, Cosmo Gordon
1904            Coles, Vincent Stuckey Stratton
1905            Savage, Henry Edwin
1906            Ede, William Moore
1907            Cunningham, William
1908            Diggle, John William
1909            Montgomery, Henry Hutchinson
1910            Burrows, Winfrid Oldfield
1911            Drury, Thomas Wortley
1912            Ditchfield, John Edwin Watts-
1913            Green, Peter
1914            Greig, John Harold
1915-19         Suspended
1920            Inge, William Ralph, Very Rev.
1921            Sheppard, Hugh Richard Lawrie
1922            Cunningham, Bertram Keir
1923            Kempthorne, John Augustine
1924            Shebbeare, Charles John
1925            Knight, Samuel Kirshbaum
1926            Bell, George Kennedy Allen
1927            Head, Frederick Waldegrave
1928            Rogers, Travers Guy
1929            Pym, Thomas Wentworth
1930            Woodward, Clifford Salisbury
1931            Grensted, Laurence William
1932            Thomson, Leonard Jauncey White-
1933            Taylor, Robert Oswald Patrick
1934            Nicholson, Sydney Hugo
1935            Macleod, George Fielden
1936            Andrews, Charles Freer
1937            Cockin, Frederic Arthur
1938            Mannering, Leslie George
1939            Dwelly, Frederick William
1940            Appointment suspended
1948            Mace, David Robert
1949            Wickham, Edward Ralph
1950            Tomkins, Oliver Stratford


 Philosophy of Religion, Stanton Lectureship in

Established by grace of 28 April 1904 from a benefaction offered by Dr Stanton, Ely Professor of Divinity. Tenure is for three years, renewable once. The lecturer is to deliver at least twelve lectures in each academical year.

1904-07         Storr, Vernon Faithfull
1907-13         Tennant, Frederick Robert
1913            Oman, John Wood     (to 1921)
1922            Widgery, Alban Gregory
1928            Oman, John Wood
1931            Bouquet, Alan Coates
1934            Smith, John Sandwith Boys
1937            Farmer, Herbert Henry
1940            Appointment suspended
1947            Ramsey, Ian Thomas
1950            Emmet, Dorothy Mary
1953            Woods, George Frederick
1956            MacKinnon, Donald Mackenzie
1959            Mitchell, Basil George
1962            Bambrough, John Renford
1965            Hepburn, Ronald William
1969            Cupitt, Don
1971            Geach, Peter Thomas
1974            Hick, John Harwood
1977            Hesse, Mary Brenda
1980            Kenny, Anthony John Patrick
1983            Anscombe, Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret
1987            Clark, Stephen Richard Lyster
1989            Plant, Raymond


 Physics, Scott Lectureship in

Provided for from a sum of about £11,000 accepted by grace of 20 May 1927 from Professor A. W. Scott of Lampeter, for the furtherance of Physical Science. From this sum £100 was to be paid to a lecturer, appointed by the Faculty Board of Chemistry and Physics, who was to give an annual short course of lectures in the Department of Physics.

1930            Bohr, Niels     'The principles of atomic theory'
1931            Langmuir, Irving
1932            Debye, Peter
1933            Geiger, Hans
1934            Heisenberg, Werner
1935            Hevesy, G. von
1936            Appleton, Edward Victor, Sir
1937            Haas, Wander Johannes de
1938            Seigbahn, M.
1939            Blackett, Patrick Maynard Stuart
1940            Appointment suspended
1949            Gorter, C. J.
1950            Powell, Cecil Frank
1951            Mott, Nevill Francis, Sir
1952            Pryce, Maurice Henry Lecorney
1953            Simon, Franz Eugen
1954            Martyn, David Forbes
1955            Bullard, Edward Crisp, Sir
1956            Woolley, Richard van der Riet
1957            Urey, Harold Clayton
1958            Cockcroft, John Douglas, Sir
1959            Friedman, H.
1960            Delbrück, Max
1961            Wilkinson, Denys Haigh
1962            Massey, Harrie, Sir
1963            Townes, Charles Hard
1964            Bondi, Hermann
1965            Salam, Abdus
1966            Gennes, Pierre Gilles de
1967            Ginzburg, Vitali Lazarevich     (Michaelmas Term)
1967            Salam, Abdus     (Lent Term)
1968            Turkey, John W.
1969            Turkey, John W.
1970            Gold, Thomas
1971            Fowler, W. A.
1972            Marr, David
1975            Weinberg, Steven
1976            Bradley, Daniel Joseph
1977            Dicke, Richard Henry
1978            Vacant
1979            Flory, Paul John
1980            Higgins, Hugh Christopher Longuet-
1981            Hunt, Garry Edward
1982            Gabathuler, Erwin
1983            Krumhansl, James Arthur
1984            Hide, Raymond
1985            Swithinbank, C. W. M.
1986            Hall, Laurance David
1987            Chandrasekhar, Sivaramakrishna
1988            Pais, Abraham
1989            Darriulat, Pierre
1990            Fritzsche, Hellmut


 Plant Physiology, F. F. Blackman Memorial Lectureship in

Established in 1961 from the sum of £1,000 given to the University for the benefit of the Sub-Department of Plant Physiology by Mrs Elsie Blackman, widow of Frederick Frost Blackman of St John's, Reader in Botany, 1904-36. Regulations approved by grace 65 of 27 May 1961. The lecture is to be delivered, if possible, at intervals of not more than three years.

1963            Briggs, George Edward
1966            Northcote, Donald Henry


 Poetry or Drama, Judith E. Wilson Lectureship in

Established by grace of 12 May 1956 from the gift by Miss Judith E. Wilson of £3,000 to endow a University Lectureship in Poetry and Drama (q.v.) and to provide for an annual lecture on the drama 'by some distinguished exponent of the dramatic art'.

1957-58         Guthrie, Tyrone
1958-59         MacNeice, Louis
1959-60         Hall, Peter Reginald Frederick
1960-61         Wickham, Glynne William Gladstone
1961-62         Donoghue, Denis
1962-63         Barton, John Bernard Adie
1963-64         Speaight, Robert William
1964-65         Arden, John
1965-66         Browne, Elliott Martin
1966-67         Jellicoe, Ann
1967-68         Church, James Anthony
1968-69         Gascoigne, Bamber
1969-70         Evans, Edith, Dame
1971-71         Jacquot, Jean
1971-72         Hands, Terry
1972-73         Kerman, Joseph
1973-74         Hodges, Cyril Walter
1974-75         Bond, Edward
1976-77         Northam, John Richard
1977-78         Griffiths, Trevor
1978-79         Heaney, Seamus     (Poetry)
1978-79         Howell, Jane     (Drama)
1979-80         Hill, Geoffrey William     (Poetry)
1979-80         Trodd, Kennet     (Drama) (not delivered)
1980-81         Thomas, Ronald Stuart     (Poetry)
1980-81         Weimann, Robert     (Drama)
1981-82         Redgrove, Peter     (Poetry)
1981-82         Trukan, Bohdan     (Drama)
1982-83         Harrison, Tony     (Drama)
1982-83         Longley, Michael     (Poetry)
1982-84         Alfreds, Mike     (Drama)
1983-84         Morgan, Edwin     (Poetry)
1984-85         Gurr, Andrew John     (Drama)
1984-85         MacLean, Sorley     (Poetry)
1985-86         Fenton, James     (Poetry)
1985-86         Pennington, Michael     (Drama)
1986-87         Thwaite, Anthony     (Poetry)
1987-88         Dunn, Douglas     (Poetry)
1987-88         Willett, John     (Drama)
1988-89         Pinter, Harold     (Drama)
1989-90         Deane, Seamus     (Poetry)
1989-90         Peter, John     (Drama)


 Rayleigh Lecturer

An honorary lectureship, to be called the Rayleigh Lectureship, was created by grace of 4 June 1921, and by grace of 12 June 1931 the General Board were authorised to re-appoint Sir Horace Lamb for so long as he should desire to hold the Lectureship.

1921            Lamb, Horace


 Rouse Ball Lecturer

The Rouse Ball Lectureship was endowed by the gift of £500 from W. W. Rouse Ball of Trinity College for the annual or biennial appointment of a lecturer who was to deal with some particular development of mathematics or with some application of mathematics to science. Revised regulations were approved by grace 4 of 13 March 1931.

1923            Lamb, Horace
1925            Jeans, James Hopwood, Sir
1926            Whittaker, Edmund Taylor
1927            MacMahon, Percy Alexander
1928            Hardy, Godfrey Harold
1929            Chapman, Sydney
1930            Weyl, Hermann
1931            No appointment
1932            Einstein, Albert
1933            Waerden, B. L. van der
1934            Heisenberg, Werner
1935            Landau, Edmund
1936            Alexander, J. W.
1937            Kármán, Th. von
1938            Cartan, E.
1939            Neugebauer, O.
1940            Appointment suspended
1945            Bohr, Harald
1947            Störmer, Carl
1948            Corput, J. G. van der
1949            Pauli, W.
1950            Cramér, H.
1951            Nevanlinna, R.
1952            Siegel, Carl L.
1953            Zariski, O.
1954            Zygmund, A.
1955            Wijngaarden, A. van
1956            Bethe, Hans Albrecht
1957            Erdös, Paul
1958            Salam, Abdus
1959            Sandage, Allan
1960            Artin, Emil
1961            Lighthill, Michael James, Sir
1962            Schwartz, Laurent
1963            Chew, Geoffrey Foucar
1964            Milnor, John Willard
1965            Massey, Harrie, Sir
1966            Bott, Raoul
1967            Fox, Leslie
1968            Renyi, Alfred
1969            Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice
1970            Cohen, Paul Joseph
1971            Cook, Alan Hugh
1972            Billingsley, P.
1973            Dyke, M. d. Van
1974            Blackwell, David
1975            Matthews, Paul Taunton
1976            Mumford, David
1977            Penrose, Roger
1978            Kingman, John Frank Charles, Sir
1979            Benjamin, Thomas Brooke
1980            Hammersley, John Michael
1981            Hunt, Garry Edward
1982            Haken, Hermann
1983            Berry, Michael Victor
1984            Williams, David
1985            Sciama, Dennis William Siahou
1986            Eckmann, Beno
1987            Lorenz, Edward N.
1988            Hirzebruch, Friedrich E. P.
1989            Wallace, David James
1990            Mandelbrot, Benoît B.


 Social Anthropology, Frazer Lectureship in

Endowed by a fund raised by a Committee 'for the purpose of commemorating Sir James Frazer's great services to learning', and established by grace of 26 November 1920, the lecture is delivered in the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Glasgow and Liverpool in rotation, the administration being in the hands of the Financial Board. When the lecture is due to be given in Cambridge, appointment is by the Vice-Chancellor.

1923            Roscoe, John
1927            Marett, Robert Ranulph
1931            Evans, Arthur John, Sir
1935            Gardiner, Alan Henderson
1939            Brown, Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-
1944            Myres, John Linton
1947            Pritchard, Edward Evan Evans-
1951            Halmendorf, Christopher von Fürer-
1955            Firth, Raymond William
1959            Wilson, Mary Monica
1963            Little, Kenneth Lindsay
1966            Mair, Lucy Philip
1971            Eggan, Fred
1976            Douglas, Mary
1983            Barth, Fredrik


 Spanish or Portuguese Literature, Norman Maccoll Lectureship in

Established by a bequest of £500 by Norman Maccoll, M.A. of Downing, accepted by grace of 2 February 1905. The appointment is made every fourth year by the Special Board for Medieval and Modern Languages, and the lecturer's duty is to deliver, in the academical year following his appointment (in Easter Term) a course of not fewer than five public lectures on the language or literature of Spain or Portugal. The minimum number of lectures was reduced to four by grace 20 of 27 May 1961.

1908            Kelly, James Fitzmaurice-
1912            Kelly, James Fitzmaurice-
1916            Thomas, Henry, Sir
1920            Young, George
1924            Pereira, Fernando de Areaga y
1928            Salinas, Pedro
1932            Prestage, Edgar
1936            Jiménez, Alberto
1940            Appointment suspended
1948            Procter, Evelyn Amma Stefanos
1952            Jiménez, Alberto
1956            Redondas, Dámaso Alonso y Fernández de las
1960            Bataillon, Marcel
1964            Parker, Alexander Augustine
1968            Russell, Peter Edward Lionel
1972            Nadal, Raphael M.
1977            Fuentes, Carlos, His Excellency D.
1981            Boxer, Charles Ralph
1985            Ribbans, Geoffrey
1989            Carr, Raymond, Sir


 Stokes Lecturer

1903            Hobson, Ernest William     (elected Sadleirian Professor 1910)
1910-12         Jeans, James Hopwood, Sir


 Vertebrate Zoology, Hans Gadow Memorial Lectureship

Established by grace of 28 October 1950 from the income of the Mrs C. M. Gadow's bequest. Tenure is for one year, but appointments are not necessarily made every year. The lecturer is required to give one or more lectures on a subject, approved by the Managers of the Hans Gadow Memorial Fund, on some aspect of vertebrate zoology.

1955            Romer, Alfred Sherwood
1961            Griffin, Donald Redfield
1970            Nielsen, Knut Schmidt-
1981            Kurtén, Björn
1987            Goodall, Jane