List of fellows of the British Academy elected in the 1900s

The Fellowship of the British Academy consists of world-leading scholars and researchers in the humanities and social sciences. Fellows are elected each year in July at the Academy's annual general meeting.^[1]

First fellows[edit]

The following fellows were appointed in the Charter of the Incorporation of the British Academy on 8 August 1902:^[2]

• The Right Honourable The Earl of Rosebery, KG, KT
• The Right Honourable The Viscount Dillon, President of the Society of Antiquaries
• The Right Honourable The Lord Reay, GCSI, GCIE, President of the Royal Asiatic Society
• The Right Honourable Arthur James Balfour, MP
• The Right Honourable John Morley, MP
• The Right Honourable James Bryce, MP
• The Right Honourable William Edward Hartpole Lecky, MP
• Sir William Reynell Anson, Baronet, MP, Warden of All Souls College, Oxford
• Sir Frederick Pollock, Baronet, Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence in the University of Oxford
• Sir Edward Maunde Thompson, KCB., Director and Principal Librarian, British Museum
• Sir Henry Churchill Maxwell-Lyte, KCB, Deputy-Keeper of the Public Records
• Sir Courtenay Peregrine Ilbert, KCSI, CIE
• Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb, MP, Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge
• David Binning Monro, Provost of Oriel College and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford
• Adolphus William Ward, Master of Peterhouse and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
• Edward Caird, Master of Balliol College, Oxford
• Henry Francis Pelham, President of Trinity College and Camden Professor of Ancient History in the University of Oxford
• John Rhys, Principal of Jesus College and Professor of Celtic in the University of Oxford
• The Reverend George Salmon, DD, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin
• John Bagnell Bury, Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Dublin
• Samuel Henry Butcher, Professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh
• Ingram Bywater, Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford
• Edward Byles Cowell, Professor of Sanskrit in the University of Cambridge
• The Reverend William Cunningham, DD
• Thomas William Rhys Davids, Professor of Pali in University College, London
• Albert Venn Dicey, KC, Vinerian Professor of English Law in the University of Oxford
• The Reverend Canon Samuel Rolles Driver, DD, Regius Professor of Hebrew in the University of Oxford
• Robinson Ellis, Corpus Professor of Latin in the University of Oxford
• Arthur John Evans, Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
• The Reverend Andrew Martin Fairbairn, DD, Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford
• The Reverend Robert Flint, DD, Professor of Divinity in the University of Edinburgh
• James George Frazer
• Israel Gollancz, University Lecturer in English in the University of Cambridge
• Thomas Hodgkin
• Shadworth Hollway Hodgson
• Thomas Erskine Holland, KC, Professor of International Law and Diplomacy in the University of Oxford
• Frederick William Maitland, Downing Professor of English Law in the University of Cambridge
• Alfred Marshall, Professor of Political Economy in the University of Cambridge
• The Reverend John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, Professor of Latin in the University of Cambridge
• James Augustus Henry Murray
• William Mitchell Ramsay, Professor of Humanity in the University of Aberdeen
• The Reverend Canon William Sanday, DD, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxford
• The Reverend Walter William Skeat, Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Cambridge
• Leslie Stephen
• Whitley Stokes CSI, CIE
• Rev Henry Barclay Swete, DD, Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge
• Rev. Henry Fanshawe Tozer
• Robert Yelverton Tyrrell, Professor of Ancient History in the University of Dublin
• James Ward, Professor of Mental Philosophy in the University of Cambridge

1903[edit]

The following were elected fellows in March 1903:^[3]

• Professor B. Bosanquet
• Professor E. G. Browne
• Arthur Cohen, KC
• F. C. Conybeare
• F. Y. Edgeworth
• C. H. Firth
• A. Campbell Fraser
• Sir Edward Fry
• Dr F. J. Furnivall
• Professor P. Gardner
• Dr Henry Jackson
• Dr M. R. James
• Dr F. G. Kenyon
• Professor W. P. Ker
• The Lord Lindley
• Sir A. Lyall, KCB, GCIE
• Professor W. R. Morfill
• Dr A. S. Murray
• Professor J. S. Nicholson
• Dr G. W. Prothero
• Very Rev. J. Armitage Robinson, DD
• Professor G. F. Stout

1904[edit]

The following were elected fellows in June 1904:^[4]

• Rev. Professor T. K. Cheyne, DD
• F. J. Haverfield
• Professor Henry Jones
• Professor A. S. Napier
• Professor A. Seth Pringle Pattison
• Dr John Peile
• Professor W. M. Flinders Petrie
• Dr R. L. Poole
• Professor W. Ridgeway
• Sir G. O. Trevelyan, Baronet
• Sir Spencer Walpole, KCB
• Professor Joseph Wright

1905[edit]

• Professor F. C. Burkitt
• Professor H. S. Foxwell
• Professor W. M. Lindsay
• Sir Charles W. C. Oman, KBE, MP
• Professor W. R. Sorley
• Edward Armstrong
• Lord Davey
• Lord Goschen
• Professor B. P. Grenfell
• Dr D. G. Hogarth, CMG
• Sir Paul Vinogradoff
• John Wordsworth

1906[edit]

• Sir G. F. Warner
• Ven. Archdeacon Charles
• Dr W. J. Courthope, CB
• Professor J. FitzMaurice-Kelly
• Andrew Lang
• Professor A. A. MacDonell
• Dr J. Ellis McTaggart
• Rev. Canon Moore

1907[edit]

• H. A. L. Fisher
• Dr Henry Bradley
• Professor J. P. Postgate
• Professor J. Cook Wilson

1908[edit]

• Marquess Curzon of Keddleston, KG

1909[edit]

• Professor Hume Brown
• Lord Justice Kennedy
• Professor C. S. Kenny
• Very Rev. Hastings Rashdall
• Sir John E. Sandys
• Professor Cuthbert H. Turner

See also[edit]

• List of fellows of the British Academy

References[edit]

Unless stated otherwise, the names are from the list of fellows, alive and dead, in Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. xviii (1932), pp. vii–x.

Citations[edit]