Regius Professor of English Language and Literature (Glasgow)

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The Regius Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow is a 1861 by Queen Victoria donated Regius Professor of English Language and English Literature .

History of the professorship

The first professorship was the biographer John Nichol, son of John Pringle Nichol , the Regius Professor of Astronomy (1836-1859) in Glasgow. Nichol Jr. had already been recognized as a Snell Exhibitioner during his training in Glasgow and had therefore also studied at Balliol College at the University of Oxford . While Nichol was teaching at Oxford, he had founded the Old Mortality Society with AV Dicey , the then Vinerian Professor of English Law, the philosopher Thomas Hill Green and the poet Algernon Swinburne , a literary discussion group. In Glasgow, Nichol earned a reputation as a literary critic and at the same time taught in Oxford, while he also performed privately as a tutor nationwide. He supported Queen Margaret College and thus the academic education of women. Nichol retired from the professorship in 1889 and died in 1894. In 1895, Nichol's sister, Lucy Jack, donated the Nichol Price for Best Woman in General English Courses to commemorate his joy in teaching women.

Nichol succeeded Andrew Cecil Bradley in 1889 , the most respected literary critic and Shakespearean scholar and brother of Francis Herbert Bradley . Bradley was educated at Balliol College, Oxford and at the time of his appointment was teaching at University College, Liverpool, now the University of Liverpool . In 1892, Bradley described his Glasgow students as "... a set of savages whom it is a loathsome drudgery to teach" ("... a bunch of savages who are disgusting drudgery to teach"). Nonetheless, he remained at the university until 1900 when he was appointed Oxford Professor of Poetry . In 1901 the university honored him with an honorary doctorate (LL.D). He held the Gifford Lectures 1907-1908 and the Bradley Professorship of English Literature was named after Bradley.

The Gifford Lectures, some of which Bradley would give at the university, were established by the estate of Adam Gifford and it was Gifford's nephew, Walter Raleigh, who succeeded Bradley as Regius Professor. Raleigh was University College London and King's College of the University of Cambridge designed where he president of the Cambridge Union Society was. Prior to his appointment to Glasgow, he had taught as First Professor of English Literature at Aligarh Muslim University in Aligarh , India and as Professor of Modern Literature at University College in Liverpool. Raleigh only held the professorship for four years before assuming the Merton Professorship in English Literature at the University of Oxford. In 1906 he was honored with an honorary doctorate from the university, and in 1911 he was ennobled.

In 1904, the celebrated Scottish writer William Macneile Dixon was appointed to the professorship. He had studied at Trinity College Dublin and had taught at the University of Birmingham before becoming Professor of English Literature . He was followed by the Glasgow-trained Shakespeare scholar Peter Alexander, who had previously taught English literature as Queen Margaret. Alexander retired from the professorship in 1963 and was knighted in 1964. In 1965, Peter Butter, trained at Balliol College, Oxford, was appointed. Butter had previously taught as Professor of English at Queen's University Belfast .

After Butter withdrew from the professorship in 1986, Alexander Pricket took office in 1990. Pricket had been funded in the Fulbright program and had taught at a number of universities including the University of Sussex , the University of Minnesota and the Australian National University in Canberra . He left the professorship in 2001.

In 2004, Nigel Leask, reader of romantic literature at the University of Cambridge, was appointed to the chair. Leask is considered to be the leading specialist in British romance.

owner

Surname name suffix from to annotation
John Nichol 1862 1889 Nichol's most important work was American Literature: An Historical Sketch, 1620 to 1880 , published in 1882 .
Andrew Cecil Bradley 1889 1900
Walter Raleigh MA 1900 1904
William Macneile Dixon Esq. 1904 1935
Peter Alexander Esq., MA 1935 1963
Peter Herbert Butter Esq., MA 1965 June 30, 1986
vacant 1986 1990
Alexander Prickett BA (Hons), Dip.Ed., MA, Ph.D. 1990 2001
vacant 2001 2004
Nigel James Leask BA, Ph.D. 2004 today

Individual evidence

  1. ^ English Language and Literature (Regius Chair). The University of Glasgow Story; Retrieved December 3, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b c d e John Nichol. The University of Glasgow Story; Retrieved December 3, 2016.
  3. ↑ Nichol Memorial Prize. The University of Glasgow Story; Retrieved December 3, 2016.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Andrew Cecil Bradley. The University of Glasgow Story; Retrieved December 3, 2016.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f Sir Walter Raleigh. The University of Glasgow Story; Retrieved December 3, 2016.
  6. ↑ a b c William Macneile Dixon. The University of Glasgow Story; Retrieved December 3, 2016.
  7. ^ A b c Notice of the appointment of William Macneile Dixon as Regius Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow. In: London Gazette , October 25, 1904.
  8. ↑ a b c Peter Alexander. The University of Glasgow Story; Retrieved December 3, 2016.
  9. ↑ a b c Peter Herbert Butter. The University of Glasgow Story; Retrieved December 3, 2016.
  10. ↑ a b c Stephen Prickett. The University of Glasgow Story; Retrieved December 3, 2016.
  11. ^ A b c Notice of the appointment of Nigel James Leask as Regius Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow. In: London Gazette , November 22, 2005.
  12. ↑ a b Nigel Leask. The University of Glasgow Story; Retrieved December 3, 2016.
  13. ↑ a b Communication on the appointment of Walter Raleigh as Regius Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow. In: London Gazette , August 28, 1900.
  14. ↑ a b Communication on the appointment of Peter Alexander as Regius Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow. In: London Gazette , October 25, 1935.
  15. ↑ a b Communication on the appointment of Peter Herbert Butter as Regius Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow. In: London Gazette , June 30, 1964.
  16. ↑ a b Communication on the appointment of AT Alexander Pricket as Regius Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow. In: London Gazette , October 11, 1988.