The Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College

Gresham College

Gresham College is an institution of higher learning located at Barnard's Inn Hall off Holborn in central London, England. It was founded in 1597 under the will of Sir Thomas Gresham and today it hosts over 140 free public lectures every year within the City of London.-History:Sir Thomas Gresham,...

, London, gives free educational lectures to the general public. The college was founded for this purpose in 1596 / 7, when it appointed seven professors; this has since increased to eight and in addition the college now has visiting professors.

The Professor of Astronomy is always appointed by the City of London Corporation.

(Years given as, say, 1596 / 7 refer to Old Style and New Style dates

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1	Edward Brerewood Edward Brerewood Edward Brerewood was an English scholar and antiquary. He was a mathematician and logician, and wrote an influential book on the origin of languages.-Life:...	March 1596 / 97
2	Thomas Williams Thomas Williams Thomas Williams may refer to:* Thomas Williams * Williams, Gresham Professor of Astronomy from 11 November 1613* Thomas Williams , signatory of the Mayflower Compact...	11 November 1613
3	Edmund Gunter Edmund Gunter Edmund Gunter , English mathematician, of Welsh descent, was born in Hertfordshire in 1581.He was educated at Westminster School, and in 1599 was elected a student of Christ Church, Oxford. He took orders, became a preacher in 1614, and in 1615 proceeded to the degree of bachelor in divinity...	6 March 1619 / 20
4	Henry Gellibrand Henry Gellibrand Henry Gellibrand was an English mathematician. He is known for his work on the Earth's magnetic field. He discovered that magnetic declination – the angle of dip of a compass needle – is not constant but changes over time...	2 January 1626 / 27
5	Samuel Foster Samuel Foster Samuel Foster was an English mathematician and astronomer. He made several observations of eclipses, both of the sun and moon, at Gresham College and in other places; and he was known particularly for inventing and improving planetary instruments...	2 March 1636 / 37
6	Mungo Murray	25 November 1637
7	Samuel Foster Samuel Foster Samuel Foster was an English mathematician and astronomer. He made several observations of eclipses, both of the sun and moon, at Gresham College and in other places; and he was known particularly for inventing and improving planetary instruments...	26 May 1641
8	Lawrence Rooke Lawrence Rooke Lawrence Rooke was an English astronomer and mathematician. He was also one of the founders of the Royal Society, although he died as it was being formally constituted.-Life:...	23 July 1652
9	Sir Christopher Wren Christopher Wren Sir Christopher Wren FRS is one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history.He used to be accorded responsibility for rebuilding 51 churches in the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666, including his masterpiece, St. Paul's Cathedral, on Ludgate Hill, completed in 1710...	7 August 1657
10	Walter Pope Walter Pope Walter Pope was an English astronomer and poet. He was born in Northamptonshire and was the half brother of John Wilkins, who would become bishop of Chester. He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, with a BA in 1649, MA in 1651...	8 March 1660 / 61
11	Daniel Man	21 September 1687
12	Alexander Torriano	31 July 1691
13	John Machin John Machin John Machin, , a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, is best known for developing a quickly converging series for Pi in 1706 and using it to compute Pi to 100 decimal places.Machin's formula is:...	16 May 1713
14	William Romaine William Romaine William Romaine , evangelical divine of the Church of England, was author of works once held in much favour by the evangelicals, namely the trilogy The Life, the Walk, and the Triumph of Faith....	25 June 1751
15	William Cockayne William Cockayne Sir William Cockayne , London, England, was a seventeenth-century London merchant, alderman, and, in 1619, Lord Mayor.-Life:...	21 April 1752
16	Peter Sandiford	16 July 1795
17	Joseph Pullen	3 December 1833
18	Edmund Ledger	27 July 1875
19	Samuel Arthur Saunder Samuel Arthur Saunder Samuel Arthur Saunder was a British mathematician and selenographer. In 1908 he was made Gresham Professor of Astronomy .The crater Saunder on the Moon is named after him.-See also:* Gresham College...	2 December 1908
20	Arthur Robert Hinks Arthur Robert Hinks Arthur Robert Hinks, CBE, FRS was a British astronomer and geographer..As an astronomer, he is best known for his work in determining the distance from the Sun to the Earth from 1900–1909: for this achievement, he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society and was elected a...	17 April 1913
(1939–45 Lectures in abeyance)
21	William Herbert Steavenson William Herbert Steavenson William Herbert Steavenson was a British amateur astronomer.He lost the vision in his right eye in a childhood accident...	29 May 1946
22	Sir John Carroll John Carroll (astronomer) John A. Carroll was a British astronomer and physicist. In the 1920s he worked at the Solar Physics Observatory, Cambridge, UK with F.J.M...	1964
23	Sir Martin Ryle Martin Ryle Sir Martin Ryle was an English radio astronomer who developed revolutionary radio telescope systems and used them for accurate location and imaging of weak radio sources...	1968
24	Roger Tayler Roger Tayler Roger John Tayler OBE FRS was a British astronomer. In his scientific work, Professor Tayler made important contributions to stellar structure and evolution, plasma stability, nucleogenesis and cosmology. He wrote a number of textbooks used by students world-wide...	1969
25	Sir Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, OM, FRS is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist. He has been Astronomer Royal since 1995 and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge since 2004...  FRS	1975
26	David W Dewhirst	1976-80
27	Michael Rowan-Robinson Michael Rowan-Robinson Michael Rowan-Robinson is an astronomer and astrophysicist. He was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge and is Professor of Astrophysics and until May 2007 was Head of the Astrophysics Group at Imperial College London. From 1981 to 1982, he gave public lectures as professor of astronomy at...	1981
28	Andrew Fabian Andrew Fabian Andrew Christopher Fabian, OBE, FRS is a British astronomer and astrophysicist. He is a Royal Society Research Professor at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, and Vice-Master of Darwin College, Cambridge. He was the President of the Royal Astronomical Society from May 2008 through to 2010...	1982
29	Raymond Hide Raymond Hide Raymond Hide CBE FRS is a British physicist, who was formerly Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford. Since 2000, he has been Senior Research Investigator at Imperial College, London.-Life:...	1984
30	George Porter George Porter George Hornidge Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham, OM, FRS was a British chemist.- Life :Porter was born in Stainforth, near Thorne, South Yorkshire. He was educated at Thorne Grammar School, then won a scholarship to the University of Leeds and gained his first degree in chemistry... , Baron Porter of Luddenham OM FRS	1 September 1990
31	Heather Couper Heather Couper Heather Anita Couper CBE CPhys is a British astronomer who popularized astronomy in the 1980s and 1990s on British television. She is a former president of the British Astronomical Association from 1984 to 1986.-Early life:...  FRAS	1 September 1993
32	Colin Pillinger Colin Pillinger Colin Trevor Pillinger, CBE, is a planetary scientist at the Open University in the UK. He was the principal investigator for the British Beagle 2 Mars lander project, and has done much work studying a group of Martian meteorites.In May 2005 Pillinger was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.-Early...  FRS	1 September 1996
33	Frank Close Frank Close Francis Edwin Close OBE is a noted particle physicist who is currently Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford.-Early life:...  OBE	1 September 2000
34	John D Barrow John D. Barrow -External links:****** The Forum-Publications available on the Internet:************...  FRS	1 September 2003
35	Ian Morison FRAS	1 August 2007
36	Carolin Crawford Carolin Crawford Carolin Susan Crawford is a British communicator of science, astrophysicist researcher, lecturer and academic based at the Institute of Astronomy and Emmanuel College, Cambridge.-Biography:...	1 August 2011