The Professor of Law 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. (Years given as, say, 1596/7 refer to Old Style and New Style dates

Old Style and New Style dates

Old Style and New Style are used in English language historical studies either to indicate that the start of the Julian year has been adjusted to start on 1 January even though documents written at the time use a different start of year ; or to indicate that a date conforms to the Julian...

.) This has since increased to eight and in addition the college now has visiting professors. The Professor of Law is always appointed by the Mercers’ School Memorial Trust, which is administered by the Worshipful Company of Mercers

Worshipful Company of Mercers

The Worshipful Company of Mercers is the premier Livery Company of the City of London and ranks first in order of precedence. It is the first of the so-called "Great Twelve City Livery Companies". It was incorporated under a Royal Charter in 1394...

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1	Henry Mowtlowe	March 1596/7
2	Clement Corbet Clement Corbet -Life:He was the sixth son of Sir Miles Corbet of Sprowston, Norfolk, who was high sheriff of that county in 1591, by Katherine, daughter of Sir Christopher Heydon. He was admitted a scholar of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, on 7 December 1592, took the degree of LL.B. in 1598, was elected a fellow of...	May 1607
3	Thomas Eden Thomas Eden Thomas Eden was an English jurist, academic and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1645.-Life:Eden was the youngest son of Richard Eden of South Hanningfield, Essex and his wife Margaret Payton, daughter of Christopher Payton of Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, and was born in the...	10 Nov 1613
4	Benjamin Thorneton	27 July 1640
5	Joshua Crosse	29 March 1644
6	Thomas Leonard	4 May 1649
7	John Bond John Bond (jurist) John Bond LL.D. was an English jurist, Puritan clergyman, member of the Westminster Assembly, and Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.-Life:...	12 March 1649/50
8	Benjamin Thorneton	23 Oct 1660
9	Richard Pearson	8 Oct 1667
10	John Clarke	9 August 1670
11	Roger Meredith	7 March 1672/3
12	Robert Briggs	7 Feb 1686/7
13	John Cumyng	1 May 1719
14	William Mace	30 August 1744
15	Joseph Jeffries	20 May 1767
16	T Taylor	23 Jan 1784
17	William Jocelyn Palmer	14 Jan 1808
18	William Palmer	5 Feb 1836
19	John Thomas Abdy John Thomas Abdy John Thomas Abdy was Regius Professor of Civil Law at Cambridge University.-Life:John Thomas Abdy was the son and heir of Lt.-Col. James Nicholas Abdy of the East India Company. His early education was at the Kensington Proprietary Grammar School. He graduated in 1844 from Trinity Hall,...	18 June 1858
20	George Holmes Blakesley	23 April 1896
21	William Blake Odgers	27 March 1907
22	Geoffrey Walter Wrangham	22 May 1925
23	William Arthian Davies William Arthian Davies Sir William Arthian Davies was a lawyer and judge in England and Wales.William Arthian Davies was appointed a Justice of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of England and Wales on 1 October 1952. He was knighted a few days later. He was transferred to the Queen's Bench...	16 March 1934
1939-45 Lectures in abeyance
24	Eric Sachs	6 June 1946
25	Richard O’Sullivan	6 July 1950
26	Richard Jon Harvey	1962
27	R F V Heuston	1965
28	P R Glazebrook	1971
29	Clive M Schmitthoff	1976–86?
30	Kenneth R Simmonds	1988
31	Sir David Calcutt David Calcutt Sir David Charles Calcutt QC was an eminent barrister and public servant, knighted in 1991. He was the Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge from 1985 until 1994. He was also responsible for the creation of the Press Complaints Commission.-References:...  QC	1 Sept 1992
32	Simon Lee	1 Sept 1995
33	Gerald Wakefield	1 Sept 1998
34	Richard Susskind Richard Susskind Richard Susskind OBE is a British author, speaker, and independent adviser to international professional firms and national governments...  OBE	1 Sept 2000
35	Vernon Bogdanor Vernon Bogdanor Vernon Bogdanor, CBE, FBA is Research Professor at the Institute for Contemporary History at King's College London, and a Fellow of Brasenose College, University of Oxford. He is one of Britain's foremost constitutional experts and has written extensively on political and constitutional issues...  FBA CBE	1 Sept 2004
36	Ruth Deech, Baroness Deech of Cumnor DBE	1 Sept 2008