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The Sadleirian Chair is a Professorship in pure mathematics at Cambridge University.
It was established in 1701 by Lady Sadleir. She made provisions in her will for lectures in algebra to be funded at the university. She died in 1706 and the lectures began in 1710. In 1860 the lectureship was changed to a professorship.

Note: Some references, e.g., Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th edition, refer to the subject as Sadlerian Chair.

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Arthur Cayley, 1863 - 1895
Andrew Forsyth, 1895 - 1910
Ernest Hobson, 1910 - 1931
Godfrey Harold Hardy, 1931 - 1942
Louis Mordell, 1945 - 1953
Philip Hall, 1953 - 1967
John Cassels, 1967 - 1986
John Coates, 1986 - current.

John Coates (341 words)
	Professor John Henry Coates, F.R.S. (born January 26, 1945) is a mathematician who holds the position of Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics[?] at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.
	In 1969, Coates was appointed assistant professor of mathematics at Harvard University in the United States, before moving again in 1972 to Stanford University where he became an associate professor.
	He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1985, and was President of the London Mathematical Society[?] from 1988 to 1990.

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