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The Regius Professorship of Hebrew in the University of Cambridge is an ancient academic chair at the University of Cambridge founded by King Henry VIII in 1540.

When created, the professorship carried a permanent stipend of £40 per year. In 1848 this was increased a canonry of Ely Cathedral being attached to the post in perpetuity.

List of Regius Professors[edit]

The chair has been held by:

  • 1549–1549 Paul Fagius[2]
  • 1550–1553 Immanuel Tremellius[3]
  • 1569 Antoine Rodolphe Chevallier
  • 1572 Philippe Bignon
  • 1575 Edward Lively
  • 1605 Robert Spaldinge
  • 1607 Geoffrey Kynge
  • 1608 Andrew Byng
  • c. 1622 Robert Metcalfe
  • 1645 Ralph Cudworth
  • 1688 Wolfram Stubbe
  • 1699 James Talbot
  • 1705 Henry Sike
  • 1712 Philip Bouquett
  • 1748 Thomas Harrison
  • 1753 Charles Torriano
  • 1757 William Disney
  • 1771 William Collier
  • 1790 John Porter
  • 1795 Henry Lloyd
  • 1831 Samuel Lee
  • 1848 William Hodge Mill
  • 1854 Thomas Jarrett
  • 1882 Alexander Francis Kirkpatrick
  • 1903 Robert Hatch Kennett
  • 1932 Stanley Arthur Cook
  • 1938 David Winton Thomas
  • 1968 John Adney Emerton
  • 1995 Robert P. Gordon[4]
  • 2012 Geoffrey Khan[5]
  • References[edit]

    1. ^ 'Wakefeld, Thomas', in Dictionary of National Biography (London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900)
  • ^ "Paul Fagius (FGS549P)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  • ^ Kenneth Austin, From Judaism to Calvinism: the Life and Writings of Immanuel Tremellius (c. 1510–1580) (2007)
  • ^ Robert Gordon Archived 2009-04-27 at the Wayback Machine at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
  • ^ "Elections". Cambridge University Reporter (6266). 16 May 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2019.
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