Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History is a chair in history at Trinity College Dublin. It was founded in 1762 and funded by the Erasmus Smith Trust,[1] which was established by Erasmus Smith, who lived 1611–1691.[2] It had been preceded by a Professorship of Oratory and History in 1724, and in 1762 the original professorship continued as a Professorship of Oratory alone.[3]
One of its incumbents was the celebrated J. B. Bury (1861-1927), author of History of the Roman Empire (1893), The Life of St. Patrick and his place in History (1905) and A History of Freedom of Thought (1914).[4][5] The current occupant of the Erasmus Smith’s chair is Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, a historian of the seventeenth-century Irish nobility.[6]
List of the professors edit
- William Andrews (1762-1769)[3]
- Michael Kearney (1769-1776)[3]
- Henry Dabzac (1778–1790)[3]
- Digby Marsh (1790-1791)[3]
- George Hall (1791-1799)[3]
- Francis Hodgkinson (1799-1840)[3]
- Joseph Henderson Singer (1840-1860)[3]
- John Lewis Moore (1850-1855)[3]
- vacant (1855-1860)[3]
- James William Barlow (1860-1893)[3]
- J. B. Bury (1893–1902)[3]
- John Henry Wardell[3]
- J. R. H. Weaver (1911–1914)[3]
- Edmund Curtis (1914–1939)[3]
- Theodore William Moody (1939–1977)[3]
- Kenneth Gordon Davies (1977-1986)[3]
- Aidan Clarke (1986-2001)[3][7]
- Jane H. Ohlmeyer (2003-present)[6]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ https://www.tcd.ie/history/about/ TCD Department of History
- ^ Mathematics at TCD 1592–1992
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Webb, D.A. (1992). J.R., Barlett (ed.). Trinity College Dublin Record Volume 1991. Dublin: Trinity College Dublin Press. ISBN 1-871408-07-5.
- ^ https://www.tcd.ie/history/about/ TCD History- About
- ^ The Dublin University Calendar, Vol III for the year 1906-7, pp 359-360
- ^ a b https://www.tcd.ie/history/staff/ohlmeyej.php TCD History Staff
- ^ Aidan Clarke 1933-2020