Public Orator
The Public Orator is a traditional official post at universities, especially in the United Kingdom. The holder of this office acts as the voice of the university on public occasions.[1]
The position at
Queen Elizabeth I in 1566. The Public Orator, Thomas Kingsmill, gave a very long historical speech. Sir Isaac Wake addressed King James I
similarly in 1605.
At the University of Cambridge, the title for the position changed from "Public Orator" to "Orator" in 1926.[3] Trinity College Dublin in Ireland also has a Public Orator.[4] There is no equivalent position in American universities.[5]
List of Public Orators
 |
England
Oxford University
See also Category:Public Orators of the University of Oxford.
- Thomas Kingsmill
- Edmund Campion[6]
- William Strode (lived 1602–1644)
- Henry Hammond (1645–1648)[7]
- Ralph Button (1648–1660)[8]
- William Crowe
- Isaac Wake
- William Walter Merry(1880–1910)
- A.D. Godley(1910–1920)
- Arthur Blackburne Poynton (1925–1932)
- Cyril Bailey (1932–1939)
- Thomas Farrant Higham (1939–1958)[9]
- A.N. Bryan-Brown (1958–1967)
- Colin Hardie (1967–1973)
- John G. Griffith (1973–1980)[10]
- Godfrey Bond (1980–1992)[11]
- Jasper Griffin (1992–2004)
- Prof. Richard Henry Austen Jenkyns (2004–2016)
- Jonathan Katz (2016 to present)
Cambridge University
See also Category:Cambridge University Orators.
- Richard Croke (1522)[12]
- George Day (1528–1537)[13]
- John Redman (1537–1538)[14]
- Sir Thomas Smith (1538–1542)[15]
- Sir John Cheke (1544)[16]
- Roger Ascham (1546–1554)[17]
- Thomas Gardiner (1554–1557)[18]
- John Stokes (1557–1559)[19]
- George Ackworth (1559–1560)[20]
- Anthony Girlington (1560–1561)[21]
- William Masters (1563–1565)[22]
- Thomas Byng (1565–1570)[23]
- William Lewin (1570–1571)[24]
- John Becon (1571–1573)[25]
- Richard Bridgewater (1573–1581)[26]
- Anthony Wingfield (1580–1589)[27]
- Henry Mowtlow (1589–1594)[28]
- Sir Robert Naunton (1594–1611)[29]
- Sir Francis Nethersole (1611–1619)[30]
- George Herbert (1619–1627)[31]
- Robert Creighton (1627–1639)[32]
- Henry Molle (1639–1650)[33]
- Ralph Widdrington (1650–1673)[34]
- Henry Paman (1674–1681)[35]
- John Billers (1681–1688)[36]
- Henry Felton (1689–1696)[24]
- William Ayloffe (1696–1726)[37]
- Edmund Castle (1727–1730)[38]
- Philip Williams (1730–1741)[39]
- James Tunstall (1741–1746)[24]
- Philip Yonge (1746–1752)[24]
- John Skynner (1752–1762)[40]
- William Barford (1762–1768)[24]
- Richard Beadon (1768–1778)[24]
- William Pearce (1778–1788)[24]
- William Lort Mansel (1788–1798)[41]
- Edmund Outram (1798–1809)[24]
- Ralph Tatham (1809–1836)[24]
- Christopher Wordsworth (February–April 1836)[42]
- William Henry Bateson (1848–1857)[43]
- William George Clark (1857–1869)[44]
- Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1869–1875)[24]
- Sir John Edwin Sandys (1875–1920; orator emeritus from 1920)[24]
- Terrot Reaveley Glover (1920–1939)[24]
- William Keith Chambers Guthrie (1939–1957)[24]
- Lancelot Patrick Wilkinson (1958–1974)[24]
- Frank Henry Stubbings (1974–1982)[24]
- James Diggle (1982–1993)[24]
- Anthony Bowen (1993[24]–2007)[45]
- Rupert Thompson (2008[46] to present)
Liverpool University
- John Pinsent (1983 to 1987)
Durham University
- Sir Ian Richmond (1949 to 1951)
Birkbeck, University of London
- Steven Connor (2001 to 2012)
- Joanna Bourke (2012 to present)
Ireland
Trinity College, Dublin
- Caesar Williamson (1660)
- Thomas Ebenezer Webb (1879 to 1887)[47]
- Arthur Palmer (1888 – no later than 1897)[48]
- Robert Yelverton Tyrrell (1899)
- Louis Claude Purser (1904)
- Sir Robert Tate, (1914 to 1952)[49]
- John V. Luce, (1972 to 2005)
- Brian McGing, (2005 to 2008)
- Anna Chahoud, (2008 to present)
Russia
Lomonosov Moscow State University
See also
References
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- ^ Cf. Bowen, Anthony. 2009. Cambridge Orations, 1993–2007: A Selection. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511609626.
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- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1901). . Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). Vol. 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ A selection of his speeches is published in Tate, Robert William. 1941. Orationes et epistolae Dublinenses: (1914 - 40). Dublin: Hodges, Figgis.