Gresham Professor of Rhetoric
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The Professor of Rhetoric 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 Rhetoric 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...

. The title is a broad one, and Professors of Rhetoric have included historians, poets, educators and literary critics.

(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...

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1 Caleb Willis  March 1596 / 7
2 Richard Ball  1598
3 Charles Croke
Charles Croke
-Life:He was the third son of Sir John Croke, and was admitted student of Christ Church, Oxford, on 5 January 1604. He proceeded B.A. , M.A., B.D. and D.D. . He was tutor of his college, and held the professorship of rhetoric at Gresham College, London, from 1613 to 1619...

 
14 Jan 1613/ 4
4 Henry Croke  26 May 1619
5 Edward Wilkinson  13 April 1627
6 John Goodridge  6 Nov 1638
7 Richard Hunt  29 Nov 1654
8 William Croune FRS 8 June 1659
9 Henry Jenkes
Henry Jenkes
Henry Jenkes , was a Gresham Professor of Rhetoric.Jenkes was descended from a Prussian family, was a native of England, and received his early education at King's College, Aberdeen, where he was admitted in 1642, and graduated M.A. in 1646. On 21 March 1646 he was admitted a member of Emmanuel...

 
21 Oct 1670
10 John King  2 Oct 1676
11 Charles Gresham  20 August 1686
12 Edward Martyn  4 Dec 1696
13 John Ward
John Ward (academic)
John Ward was an English teacher, supporter of learned societies, and biographer, remembered for his work on the Gresham College professors, of which he was one.-Life:...

 
1 Sept 1720
14 Joseph Whateley  19 Jan 1759
15 Joseph Thomas Waugh 11 April 1797
16 F Newnham  7 Jan 1808
17 Edward Owen 13 Nov 1817
18 Charlton Lane  23 April 1863
19 Thomas Francis Dallin  9 July 1875
20 J E Nixon  4 Feb 1881
21 Foster Watson  22 Jan 1915
22 Oliver Elton
Oliver Elton
Oliver Elton was an English literary scholar whose works include A Survey of English Literature in six volumes, criticism, biography, and translations from several languages including Icelandic and Russian...

 
19 April 1929
23 George Stuart Gordon
George Stuart Gordon
George Stuart Gordon was a British literary scholar.Gordon was educated at Glasgow University, Oriel College, Oxford ....

 
2 May 1930
24 Arthur William Reed  8 Dec 1933
1939–45 Lectures in abeyance
25 Rowland Walter Jepson  6 June 1946
26 Lord David Cecil
Lord David Cecil
Edward Christian David Gascoyne-Cecil, CH , was a British biographer, historian and academic. He held the style of 'Lord' by courtesy, as a younger son of a marquess.-Early life and studies:...

 
27 June 1947
27 Nevill Coghill
Nevill Coghill
Nevill Coghill was a British literary scholar, known especially for his modern English version of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.-Life:...

 
14 Oct 1948
28 William Empson
William Empson
Sir William Empson was an English literary critic and poet.He was known as "燕卜荪" in Chinese.He was widely influential for his practice of closely reading literary works, fundamental to the New Critics...

 
1953
29 Richard Hughes  1954
30 Bonamy Dobrée
Bonamy Dobrée
Bonamy Dobrée , British academic, was Professor of English Literature at the University of Leeds from 1936 to 1955....

 
1957
31 Stephen Spender
Stephen Spender
Sir Stephen Harold Spender CBE was an English poet, novelist and essayist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work...

 
1961
32 John Wain
John Wain
John Barrington Wain was an English poet, novelist, and critic, associated with the literary group "The Movement". For most of his life, Wain worked as a freelance journalist and author, writing and reviewing for newspapers and the radio. He seems to have married in 1947, since C. S...

 
1963 (Hilary term)
33 Cecil Day-Lewis
Cecil Day-Lewis
Cecil Day-Lewis CBE was an Irish poet and the Poet Laureate from 1968 until his death in 1972. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake...

 
1963–64
34 Patric Dickinson
Patric Dickinson
Patric Thomas Dickinson was a British poet, translator from the Greek and Latin classics, and playwright. He also worked for the BBC, from 1942 to 1948. He wrote full time from 1948....

 
1965–67
35 Sir Robert Birley
Robert Birley
Sir Robert Birley was an English educationalist who was head master of Charterhouse School, then Eton College, and an anti-apartheid campaigner.-Biography:...

 
1968–82
1983–84 vacant
36 John Morley Pick  1985
37 Jan Kott
Jan Kott
Jan Kott was a well-known Polish critic and theoretician of the theatre.Born in Warsaw in 1914, Kott moved to the United States in 1966 and lectured at Yale and Berkeley. A poet, translator, and critic, he was also one of the finest essayists of the Polish school...

 
1986
38 John Morley Pick  1987
39 J M Rae  1988
40 Sir Andrew Derbyshire  1990
41 Peter G Moore  1 Sept 1992
42 Peter Hennessy
Peter Hennessy
Peter John Hennessy, Baron Hennessy of Nympsfield, FBA is an English historian of government. Since 1992, he has been Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary, University of London.-Early life:...

 
1 Sept 1994
43 Lynette Hunter  1 Sept 1997
44 Richard Sorabji
Richard Sorabji
Richard Rustom Kharsedji Sorabji CBE, FBA is a British historian of ancient Western philosophy and Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at King's College London. He has written his own 'Intellectual Autobiography' in his Festschrift: R. Salles ed., Metaphysics, Soul and Ethics in Ancient Thought , 1-36...

 CBE FBA
1 Sept 2000
45 Kathleen Burk  1 Sept 2003
46 Rodney Barker
Rodney Barker
Professor Rodney Barker is a British academic and political commentator. He is currently the Professor of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science and he was the Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College in London from September 2006 to September 2009.After gaining his BA...

 
1 Sept 2006
47 Richard J. Evans
Richard J. Evans
Richard John Evans is a British academic and historian, prominently known for his history of Germany.-Life:Evans was born in London, of Welsh parentage, and is now Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge and President of Wolfson College...

1 Sept 2009
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