The Gladstone Chair of Greek was one of the original endowments of the foundation of the University of Liverpool

University of Liverpool

The University of Liverpool is a teaching and research university in the city of Liverpool, England. It is a member of the Russell Group of large research-intensive universities and the N8 Group for research collaboration. Founded in 1881 , it is also one of the six original "red brick" civic...

 in 1881. The Chair was named in recognition of the scholarship of W E Gladstone, the British prime minister

Prime minister

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, and the close association of the Gladstone family with Liverpool

Liverpool

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.

With the decline in the teaching of Classics

Classics

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 the chair has been vacant since Professor Long

A. A. Long

Anthony Arthur Long is a British and naturalised American classical scholar and Professor of Classics and Irving Stone Professor of Literature at the University of California, Berkeley....

 left in 1983 to take up a position in the United States.

Gladstone Professors of Greek

• 1891-1898 Gerald Henry Rendall
  Gerald Henry Rendall
  Gerald Henry Rendall was an English educator and college administrator, born at Harrow, where his father was assistant master. He was educated at Harrow and at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating BA as 4th Classic in 1874. He was a fellow and assistant tutor at Trinity from 1875 to 1880...
  
  
• 1898-1906 Gilbert Austin Davies
  Gilbert Austin Davies
  Gilbert Austin Davies was an English classical scholar.-Life:After education at Aldenham Grammar School and Owen’s College, Manchester, Davies went up to Trinity College, Cambridge as a scholar in 1887...
  
  
• 1907-1910 Sir John Lynton Myres
  John Myres
  Sir John Linton Myres was a British archaeologist. He conducted excavations in Cyprus in 1904. He became the first Wykeham Professor of Ancient History, at the University of Oxford, in 1910, having been Gladstone Professor of Greek and Lecturer in Ancient Geography, University of Liverpool from 1907...
  
  
• 1911-1914 Carl Friedrich Ferdinand Lehmann-Haupt
• 1919-1921 Alfred Chilton Pearson
  Alfred Chilton Pearson
  Alfred Chilton Pearson was an English classical scholar, noted for his work on Greek tragedy.-Life:After education at King's College School and Highgate School Pearson went up to Christ's College, Cambridge to read classics where he graduated in 1883...
  
   (subsequently Regius Professor of Greek
  Regius Professor of Greek (Cambridge)
  The Regius Professorship of Greek is one of the oldest professorships at the University of Cambridge. The chair was founded by Henry VIII in 1540 with a stipend of £40 per year, subsequently increased in 1848 by a canonry of Ely Cathedral....
  
   at Cambridge University
  University of Cambridge
  The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
  
  )
• 1922-1950 Archibald Young Campbell
  A. Y. Campbell
  Archibald Young Campbell was a classical scholar, translator, and published poet of the 1920s and 1930s.-Life:Campbell was born at Blantyre, near Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland in 1885, and received his education at Hamilton Academy and Fettes College, in Edinburgh.In 1904 he went up to St...
  
  
• 1950-1972 Arthur Hilary Armstrong
  A. H. Armstrong
  Arthur Hilary Armstrong FBA was an English educator and author. Armstrong is recognized as one of the foremost authorities on the philosophical teachings of Plotinus ca. 205–270 CE. His multi-volume translation of the philosopher's teachings is regarded as an essential tool of classical studies.-...
  
  
• 1973-1983 Anthony Arthur Long
  A. A. Long
  Anthony Arthur Long is a British and naturalised American classical scholar and Professor of Classics and Irving Stone Professor of Literature at the University of California, Berkeley....