The King Edward VII Professorship of English Literature is one of the senior professorships in literature at the University of Cambridge, and was founded by a donation from Sir Harold Harmsworth in 1910 in memory of King Edward VII who had died earlier that year.[1]
King Edward VII Professors
edit- Arthur Woollgar Verrall (1911)
- Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1912–1944)
- Basil Willey (1946)
- Lionel Charles Knights (1965)
- John Frank Kermode (1974)
- Christopher Bruce Ricks (1982)
- Marilyn Butler (1986)
- Gillian Patricia Kempster Beer (1994)[1]
- David Trotter (2002)
- Clair Wills (2019)[2]
References
edit- ^ a b "Professors". Cambridge. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
- ^ "Professor Clair Wills". Murray Edwards College. University of Cambridge. 3 September 2019. Retrieved 25 March 2020.