The Regius Professorship of Greek is one of the oldest and most prestigious of the professorships at the University of Cambridge. This is a list of professorships at the University of Cambridge. ... The University of Cambridge (often called Cambridge University), located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...

The chair was founded by Henry VIII in 1540 with a stipend of £40 per year, subsequently increased in 1848 by a canonry of Ely Cathedral. Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England and Lord of Ireland (later King of Ireland) from 22 April 1509 until his death. ... Events January 6 - King Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves, his fourth Queen consort. ... 1848 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Front of Ely Cathedral Ely Cathedral (in full, The Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Ely) is the principal church of the diocese of Ely, in Cambridgeshire, England, and the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Ely. ...

Regius Professors of Greek

• John Cheke (1540)
• Nicholas Carr (1547)
• Francisco de Enzinas, alias Dryander (1549)
• Bartholomew Dodington (1562)
• Andrew Downes (1585)
• Robert Creighton (1625)
• James Duport (1639)
• Ralph Widdrington (1654)
• Isaac Barrow (1660)
• James Valentine (1663)
• Robert Creighton (1666)
• Thomas Gale (1672)
• John North (1672)
• Benjamin Pulleyn (1674)
• Michael Payne (1686)
• Joshua Barnes (1695)
• Thomas Pilgrim (1712)
• Walter Taylor (1726)
• William Fraigneau (1744)
• Thomas Francklin (1750)
• Michael Lort (1759)
• James Lambert (1771)
• William Cooke (1780)
• Richard Porson (1792)
• James Henry Monk (1808)
• Peter Paul Dobree (1823)
• James Scholefield (1825)
• William Hepworth Thompson (1853)
• Benjamin Hall Kennedy (1867)
• Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1889)
• Henry Jackson (1906)
• Alfred Chilton Pearson (1921)
• Donald Struan Robertson (1928)
• Denys Lionel Page (1950)
• Geoffrey Stephen Kirk (1974)
• Eric Walter Handley (1984)
• Patricia Elizabeth Easterling (1994)
• Richard Hunter (2001)

Sir John Cheke (16 June 1514 - 13 September 1557) was an English classical scholar and statesman, notable as the first Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge. ... Nicholas G. Carr (b. ... Andrew Downes (b. ... James Duport (1606, Cambridge - July 17th 1679, Peterborough) was an English classical scholar. ... Isaac Barrow Isaac Barrow (1630 - May 4, 1677) was an English divine, scholar and mathematician who is generally given minor credit for his role in the development of modern calculus; in particular, for his work regarding the tangent; for example, Barrow is given credit for being the first to calculate... James Valentine James Burgon Valentine (born October 5, 1978 in Lincoln, Nebraska) is an American musician. ... Thomas Gale (?1636-1702), English classical scholar and antiquarian, was born at Scruton, Yorkshire. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Joshua Barnes (January 10, 1654 - August 3, 1712), English scholar, was born in London. ... Walter Willard Taylor Jr (1913 – 1997) was an American anthropologist and archaeologist most famous for his work at Coahuila in Mexico and his Conjunctive archaeology, a method of studing of the past combining elements of both the traditional archaeology of the period and the allied field of anthropology. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Richard Porson (December 25, 1759–September 25, 1808), was an English classical scholar. ... James Henry Monk (1784-1856), English divine and classical scholar, was born at Buntingford, Herts. ... Peter Paul Dobree (1782 - September 24, 1825), English classical scholar and critic, was born in Guernsey. ... James Scholefield (November 15, 1789 - April 4, 1853), English classical scholar, was born at Henley-on-Thames. ... William Hepworth Thompson (27 March 1810 - 1 October 1886) was an English classical scholar and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. ... Benjamin Hall Kennedy (November 6, 1804 _ April 6, 1880) was an English scholar. ... Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb (August 27, 1841 - December 9, 1905) was a British classical scholar and politician. ... Several notable persons have been named Henry Jackson: Henry Bradwardine Jackson, British First Sea Lord in World War I Henry M. Jackson, US Senator Henry R. Jackson, US general in 19th century See also: William Henry Jackson, Henry Jackson van Dyke, Henry Jackson Hunt This is a disambiguation page — a...

See also

• Regius Professor of Greek (Oxford)