The Regius Professorship of Greek is a professorship at the University of Oxford in England.
Henry VIII founded the chair by 1541. He established five Regius Professorships in the university (and five corresponding chairs in Cambridge University), the others being the Regius chairs of Divinity, Medicine, Civil Law and Hebrew.
The duties of a professor include:
1. The Regius Professor of Greek shall lecture and give instruction in the history and criticism of the Greek Language and Literature and on the works of classical Greek authors.
2. The professor shall be subject to the General Provisions of the decree concerning the duties of professors and to those Particular Provisions of the same decree which are applicable to this chair.
List of holders
John Harpsfield, ca. 1541–1545
George Etheridge (or Etherege), 1547–1550
Giles Lawrence, 1551–1553
George Etheridge, reinstated, 1553–1559
Giles Lawrence, reinstated, 1559–1584 or 1585
John Harmar (or Harmer), 1585–1590
Henry Cuffe, 1590–1597
John Perrin, 1597–1615
John Hales, 1615–1619
John Harrys, 1619–1622
John South, 1622–1625
Henry Stringer, 1625–1650
John Harmar (or Harmer), 1650–1660
Joseph Crowther, 1660–1665
William Levinz, 1665–1698
Humphrey Hody, 1698–1705
Thomas Milles, 1705–1707
Edward Thwaytes, 1707–1711
Thomas Terry, 1712–1735
John Fanshawe, 1735–1741
Thomas Shaw, 1741–1751
Samuel Dickens, 1751–1763
William Sharp, 1763–1782
John Randolph, 1782–1783
William Jackson, 1783–1811
Thomas Gaisford, 1811–1855
Benjamin Jowett, 1855–1893
Ingram Bywater, 1893–1908
Gilbert Murray, 1908–1936
E. R. Dodds, 1936–1960
Hugh Lloyd-Jones, 1960–1989
Peter J. Parsons, 1989–2003
Christopher Pelling, 2003–2015
Gregory Hutchinson, 2015–present
See also
Regius Professor of Greek (Cambridge) Regius Professor of Greek (Trinity) List of Professorships at the University of Oxford
References
Sources
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. R. W. Chambers, "Life and Works of Nicholas Harpsfield", in The life and death of Sr Thomas Moore, knight, sometymes Lord high Chancellor of England, written in the tyme of Queene Marie by Nicholas Harpsfield, L.D., Oxford: EETS O.S. no. 186, 1932, pp. clxxv–ccxiv, esp. pp. clxxviii–clxxx. Important archival information correcting widely repeated mistaken information about the history of the chair in the 1540s. The historical register of the University of Oxford: being a supplement to the Oxford University calendar, with an alphabetical record of University honours and distinctions completed to the end of Trinity term 1888, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1888, p. 49.