The Regius Professorship of Physic is a Regius Professor

Regius Professor

Regius Professorships are "royal" professorships at the ancient universities of the United Kingdom and Ireland - namely Oxford, Cambridge, St Andrews, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Dublin. Each of the chairs was created by a monarch, and each appointment, save those at Dublin, is approved by the...

ship in Medicine at the University of Dublin

University of Dublin

The University of Dublin , corporately designated the Chancellor, Doctors and Masters of the University of Dublin , located in Dublin, Ireland, was effectively founded when in 1592 Queen Elizabeth I issued a charter for Trinity College, Dublin, as "the mother of a university" – this date making it...

, Trinity College. The seat dates from at least 1637, placing it amongst the oldest academic posts at the university. Mention is made in the college's Register for 1598 of an annual grant of £40 from the government for a "Physitian's pay"; this is sometimes held to be the provision made for the Chair of Physic, but it is possible that it may have been in granted for medical services required by the troops stationed in Dublin.

By 1700, the chair was considered part of the senior academic staff, alongside the Provost

Provost (education)

A provost is the senior academic administrator at many institutions of higher education in the United States, Canada and Australia, the equivalent of a pro-vice-chancellor at some institutions in the United Kingdom and Ireland....

 and Fellow

Fellow

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s (the professorships in other subjects being confined to Fellows at that time).

Regius Professors of Physic

• John Stearne (1656–1659, 1662–1669)
• Thomas Margetson (?-1674)Margetson was elected as the successor to Stearne, but the date of his election is not recorded.
• Ralph Howard (1674–1710)
• Richard Steevens (1710-1710)
• Thomas Molyneux (1711–1733)
• Richard Helsham (1733–1738)
• Henry Cope (?-1742/3)Cope was elected as successor to Helsham, but the date of his election is not recorded.
• Francis Foreside (1742/3-1745)
• Bryan Robinson (1745–1754)
• Edward Barry (1754–1761)
• William Clements (physician) (1761–1781)
• Edward Hill (1781–1830)
• Whitley Stokes (1830–1840)
• William Stokes (1840–1878)
• Alfred Hudson (1878–1880)
• John Thomas Banks (1880–1898)
• James Little
  James Little (physician)
  Dr. James Little was an eminent Irish medical practitioner. After spending an early part of his career as a ship's surgeon, surviving a shipwreck, he became chief physician at the Adelaide Hospital in Dublin and Regius Professor of Physic at the University of Dublin.-Early life:Little was born in...
  
   (1898–1916)
• John Mallet Purser (1917–1925)
• T.G. Moorhead (1925–1956)
• ?
• Victor Synge (1960–1972)
• ?
• Donald Weir (1982-?)