Gresham Professor of Physic

The Professor of Physic (the term for medicine at the time the post was created in 1597) at Gresham College in London, England, gives free educational lectures to the general public on medicine, health and related sciences. The college was founded to give public lectures in 1597 (New Style). Professors of Physic and more recently visiting Professors have been giving public lectures on major topics in medicine in London since 1597; recently these have also been put on line as a free resource for a wider public including outside the UK. Gresham Professors have included some of the leading scientists in Britain including Sir Christopher Wren and Robert Boyle. Gresham Professors of Physic listed below included leaders in medicine, public health, surgery and clinical science. In addition eminent medical scientists and physicians were Gresham Professors of other disciplines, such as Sir William Petty, one of the founders of demography (Gresham Professor of Music from 1651).

The Professor of Physic is always appointed by the Mercers' Side of the Joint Grand Gresham Committee, a body administered jointly by the Worshipful Company of Mercers and the City of London Corporation.

## List of Gresham Professors of Physic[edit]

Professor Martin Elliott delivering a Gresham College lecture, October 2014 | Name | Started

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1 | Matthew Gwinne | March 1596 / 7
2 | Peter Mounsell | Sept 1607
3 | Thomas Winston | 25 Oct 1615
4 | Paul de Laune | 13 June 1643
5 | Thomas Winston | 20 August 1652
6 | Jonathan Goddard FRS | 7 Nov 1655
7 | John Mapletoft FRS | 27 March 1675
8 | Henry Paman FRS | 21 June 1679
9 | Edward Stillingfleet FRS | 21 June 1689
10 | John Woodward FRS | 13 Jan 1692-1703
11 | Henry Pemberton FRS | 24 May 1728
12 | Thomas Healde FRS | 27 March 1771
13 | Christopher Stanger | 25 March 1789
14 | Henry Herbert Southey FRS | 24 Oct 1834
15 | Henry Powell | 27 July 1865
16 | Edmund Symes-Thompson | 5 July 1867
17 | Fleming Mant Sandwith | 14 March 1907
18 | Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones | 24 May 1918
19 | Sir George Newman | 26 July 1929
20 | James Alison Glover[1] | 12 Oct 1934
21 | Vincent Sutherland Hodson | 13 April 1937
1939–45 Lectures in abeyance
22 | Hamilton Hartridge FRS | 6 June 1946
23 | John Leonard d’Silva | 1955
24 | Arthur John Buller | 1962
25 | Invited lectures: H Harris and D V Davies | 1964-65
26 | J P Quilliam | 1965
27 | H C Stewart | 1968
28 | David Slome | 1970-84?
29 | John Daniel Griffiths | 1986
30 | Sir Kenneth L Stuart | 1988
31 | Francis G Cox | 1 Sept 1992
32 | Susan Adele Greenfield,
Baroness Greenfield | 1 Sept 1995
33 | Hilary Rose and Steven Rose | 1 Sept 1999
34 | Keith Kendrick | 1 Sept 2002
35 | Christopher Dye FRS | 1 Sept 2006
36 | William Ayliffe | 1 Sept 2009
37 | Martin Elliott | 1 Sept 2014
38  | Sir Chris Whitty | 2018

## References[edit]

* Gresham College old website, Internet Archive List of professors

## Notes[edit]

1. ^ "Glover, James Alison (GLVR894JA)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

## Further reading[edit]

* Ward, John (1740). The Lives of the Professors of Gresham College. New York & London: Johnson Reprint Corporation.

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