Regius Professor of English Language and Literature

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Not to be confused with the Regius Professor of English Literature at the University of Aberdeen.
Regius Chair of English Language and Literature
University of Glasgow
Incumbent
Nigel Leask
since 2004
Formation1861
First holderJohn Nichol
Websitewww.gla.ac.uk/englishliterature

The Regius Chair of English Language and Literature at the

Queen Victoria, and is the only Regius Professorship
in the Faculty of Arts.

History

The first professor appointed was

Thomas Hill Green and poet Algernon Charles Swinburne he formed the Old Mortality Society, a literary discussion society. Whilst at Glasgow, Nichol maintained his strong reputation in literary criticism, lecturing at the same time at Oxford as well as tutoring privately across the country. He was also a supporter of the higher education of women. He left the Chair in 1889 and died in 1894.[1] In 1885, the Nichol Prize for the most distinguished woman student in the Ordinary class of English Literature was founded by his sister, Lucy Jack.[2]

Nichol was succeeded in 1889 by

Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. He delivered the 1907-1908 Gifford Lectures at the University. The Bradley Chair of English Literature was named after him, and his name was placed on the Memorial Gates erected to mark the University's quincentenary in 1951.[4]

The Gifford Lectures, a series of which Bradley delivered at the University, were instituted by the will of

Cambridge Union, and was appointed the first Professor of English Literature at the Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College in Aligarh, India. He then worked as Professor of Modern Literature at University College, Liverpool before being appointed to the Regius Chair in 1900. He remained in the Chair for only four years, being appointed Merton Professor of English Literature in 1904. He was knighted in 1911.[5]

In 1904, the celebrated Scottish author,

Trinity College, Dublin and had previously been Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham.[6] He was succeeded in 1935 by Peter Alexander, who had been the Queen Margaret Lecturer in English Literature. He retired in 1963 and was awarded a CBE in 1964.[7] In 1965, Peter Butter was appointed to the Chair, having previously been Professor of English at Queen's University Belfast.[8] He retired in 1986 and was succeeded in 1990 by Alexander Prickett. Prickett was a Fulbright Scholar in 1979 and has taught at a number of institutions including the University of Sussex, University of Minnesota and Australian National University, Canberra. He retired in 2001.[9] In 2004, Nigel Leask, Reader in Romantic Literature at the University of Cambridge, was appointed to the Chair.[10]

Regius Professors of English Language and Literature

See also

  • List of Professorships at the University of Glasgow

References

  1. ^ "John Nichol". University of Glasgow. 6 August 2008. Retrieved 14 April 2010.
  2. ^ "Nichol Memorial Prize". University of Glasgow. 7 August 2007. Retrieved 14 April 2010.
  3. ^ "Andrew Cecil Bradley". University of Glasgow. 29 May 2008. Retrieved 14 April 2010.
  4. ^ "Memorial Gates". University of Glasgow. Retrieved 14 April 2010.
  5. ^ "Sir Walter Raleigh". University of Glasgow. 16 July 2008. Retrieved 14 April 2010.
  6. ^ "Walter Macneile Dixon". University of Glasgow. 21 April 2008. Retrieved 14 April 2010.
  7. ^ "Peter Alexander". University of Glasgow. 12 August 2008. Retrieved 14 April 2010.
  8. ^ "Peter Butter". University of Glasgow. 11 August 2008. Retrieved 14 April 2010.
  9. ^ "Alexander Prickett". University of Glasgow. Retrieved 14 April 2009.
  10. ^ "Nigel Leask". University of Glasgow. Archived from the original on 5 March 2009. Retrieved 14 April 2009.
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