Lecky Professor of History
The Lecky Professorship of History, previously the Lecky Professorship of chair at Trinity College Dublin.
The professorship was founded in 1913 in memory of William Edward Hartpole Lecky, with an endowment from his widow.[1]
Lecky Professors of History
- Walter Alison Phillips, 1914–1939.[2]
- Edmund Curtis, 1939–1943[3]
- Constantia Maxwell, 1945–1951
- A. J. Otway-Ruthven, 1951-1980[4]
- J. F. Lydon, 1980-1993[5]
- I. S. Robinson, 1993-2015[6]
- Ruth Mazo Karras, 2018–present[7]
Notes
- ^ Journal of Education, vol. 36 (Oxford University Press, 1914)
- ^ James Johnston Auchmuty, Lecky: a biographical and critical essay (Dublin, 1945), p. 127: "The first holder of the Lecky Chair was Professor Walter Alison Phillips, Litt.D. ... who was appointed in 1914."
- ^ Howard B. Clarke, Medieval Dublin, the making of a metropolis (1990), p. 259
- ^ Annette Jocelyn Otway-Ruthven, A History of Medieval Ireland (1980), p. 459
- ISBN 1852851228), p. xi
- ^ School of Histories and Humanities at tcd.ie, accessed 26 November 2010
- ^ Department of History at tcd.ie, accessed 13 May 2020