Lecky Professor of History
Professorship and chair at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
The Lecky Professorship of History, previously the Lecky Professorship of Modern History is a chair at Trinity College Dublin.
The professorship was founded in 1913 in memory of William Edward Hartpole Lecky, with an endowment from his widow.[1]
Lecky Professors of History
- Walter Alison Phillips, 1914–1939.[2]
- Edmund Curtis, 1939–1943[3]
- Constantia Maxwell, 1945–1951
- A. J. Otway-Ruthven, 1951-1980[4]
- J. F. Lydon, 1980-1993[5]
- I. S. Robinson, 1993-2015[6]
- Ruth Mazo Karras, 2018–present[7]
Notes
- ^ Journal of Education, vol. 36 (Oxford University Press, 1914)
- ^ James Johnston Auchmuty, Lecky: a biographical and critical essay (Dublin, 1945), p. 127: "The first holder of the Lecky Chair was Professor Walter Alison Phillips, Litt.D. ... who was appointed in 1914."
- ^ Howard B. Clarke, Medieval Dublin, the making of a metropolis (1990), p. 259
- ^ Annette Jocelyn Otway-Ruthven, A History of Medieval Ireland (1980), p. 459
- ^ Colony and Frontier in Medieval Ireland: essays presented to J. F. Lydon; ed. T. B. Barry et al. (London: Hambledon Press, 1995 ISBN 1852851228), p. xi
- ^ School of Histories and Humanities at tcd.ie, accessed 26 November 2010
- ^ Department of History at tcd.ie, accessed 13 May 2020
