Challis Professorship

The Challis Professorship are professorships at the University of Sydney named in honour of John Henry Challis, an Anglo-Australian merchant, landowner and philanthropist, whose bequests to the University of Sydney allowed for their establishment.

In 1880 John Henry Challis bequeathed residuary real and personal estate to the University, "to be applied for the benefit of that Institution in such manner as the governing body thereof shall direct".[1] From the income of the Fund a sum of £7,500 was applied for the payment of half the cost of the erection of a new Chemical Laboratory, and a further sum of £1,900 devoted to the erection of a marble statue of Mr Challis, which has been placed in the Great Hall, opposite to that of Mr W. C. Wentworth.[2] The Challis appointments were then created.

Professorships

There are currently Challis Professorships in nine different subjects:

• Challis Professor of English
• Challis Professor of Philosophy
• Challis Professor of History
• Challis Professor of Law
• Challis Professor of International Law[lower-alpha 1]
• Challis Professor of Jurisprudence[lower-alpha 1]
• Challis Professor of Anatomy
• Challis Professor of Zoology
• Challis Professor of Civil Engineering

Holders

English

• John Le Gay Brereton (1921-1933)[4]
• A.J.A. Waldock (1934-50)[5]
• Wesley Milgate (1951-61)[6]
• Sam L. Goldberg (1963–66)[7]
• Gerry Wilkes (1966-96)[8]
• Margaret Harris (2006–07)[9]
• Paul Giles (2010– )[10]

Philosophy

• Francis Anderson (1890-1921)
• John Anderson (1927-1958)
• J. L. Mackie (1959-1963)
• David Malet Armstrong (1964-1991)
• Keith Campbell
• Huw Price (2002-2012)[11]
• Moira Gatens (2012- )[12]

History

• George Arnold Wood (1891-1928)
• Stephen Henry Roberts (1929-1947)
• John Manning Ward (1948-1979)
• Deryck M. Schreuder (1980-1992)[13]
• Ros Pesman (2003-?2004)
• Stephen Garton (?2004-???)[14]
• Shane White (???- )

Law

• Pitt Cobbett (1890-1909)[3]
• John Peden (1910-?1941?)[15]
• James Williams (1942-?1946?)[15]
• Kenneth Owen Shatwell (1947-1974)[16]
• William Loutit Morison (1982-1985)[17]
• Ross Waite Parsons (1986)[18]
• David Harland (1989[19]-2001[20])
• Richard Vann (2002?-)[21][22]

International Law and Jurisprudence (split)

This chair appears to have been the fourth of its kind in the English-speaking world. Its predecessors were the Regius Chair of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations at the University of Edinburgh; the Chair of Jurisprudence and the Law of Nations at UCL; and the Chair of Jurisprudence and International Law at Trinity College, Dublin. It was split after Stone's retirement into two separate chairs.[3]

• Archibald Hamilton Charteris (1920-1940)[23][24]
• Julius Stone (1942-1973)[3]

International Law

• David Johnson (1976-1985)[25]
• James Crawford (1986-1992)[26]
• Ivan Shearer (1993-2003)[27]
• Donald Rothwell (2004-2006)[28]
• Gillian Triggs (2010-2012)[29]
• Ben Saul (2016-)[30]

Jurisprudence

• Alice Erh-Soon Tay (1975-2002)[31][32]
• Wojciech Sadurski (2009- )[33]

Anatomy

• James Thomas Wilson
• John Irvine Hunter
• Arthur Neville Burkitt
• Neil William Macintosh
• Jonathan Stone
• Michael J. Blunt

Zoology

• William Aitcheson Haswell
• Launcelot Harrison
• William John Dakin
• Patrick Desmond Fitzgerald Murray
• Charles Birch

Civil Engineering

• William Henry Warren (29 July 1889-?1925)[34][35]
• Launcelot Harrison
• Jack William Roderick
• John Carter
• Nicholas S. Trahair
• Kim Rasmussen (2009 - )[35]

See also

• List of University of Sydney people

Notes

1. The Chair of International Law and Jurisprudence was established in 1920 under A.H. Charteris and split after the retirement of the second holder J. Stone.[3]

Reference

1. http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks15/1500721h/0-dict-biogCa-Ch.html#challis1
2. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/challis-john-henry-3186
3. Crawford, James. "Public International Law:Realism, Scepticism and the Future World Order: Some Thoughts on Julius Stone's Contribution to International Law" (PDF). Sydney Law Review (13 SydLR 475 ed.). Retrieved 1 October 2017.
4. "Brereton, J. Le Gay (John Le Gay), 1871-1933".
5. Cable, K. J. "Waldock, Arthur John Alfred (1898–1950)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
6. "Obituary - Wesley Milgate - Obituaries Australia". oa.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
7. "Obituary - Samuel Louis (Sam) Goldberg - Obituaries Australia". oa.anu.edu.au. July 1934. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
8. Little, Geoffrey (1996). Imperfect apprehensions: essays in English literature in honour of G.A. Wilkes. Challis Press. p. 288. ISBN 9780646300450. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
9. Gay, Penny; Johnston, Judith (2009). Victorian Turns, NeoVictorian Returns: Essays on Fiction and Culture. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. xi. ISBN 9781443811811. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
10. "Fellows - Australian Academy of the Humanities". www.humanities.org.au. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
11. "Huw Price". The Conversation.
12. "Professor Moira Gatens - The University of Sydney". Retrieved 20 June 2017.
13. "Deryck Schreuder".
14. "Professor Stephen Garton".
15. Morison, William Loutit (March 1986). "Law and Images of History: a Reminiscence" (PDF). Sydney Law Revew. 11: 115–133. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
16. Sydney Law Review (PDF). 12 (02/3): vii. 1990 http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/SydLawRw/1990/21.pdf. Retrieved 26 April 2020. Missing or empty |title= (help)
17. "The Future Scope of Australian Common Law" (PDF). Sydney Law Review. 13 (3): 335. 1991. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
18. "Income Taxation: An Institution in Decay" (PDF). Sydney Law Review. 13 (3): 435. 1991. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
19. Calendar 2000 (PDF). University of Sydney. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
20. Lindgren, Kevin (2006). "Introduction". Sydney Law Review. 28 (1). Retrieved 26 April 2020.
21. The Faculty of Law Handbook 2002 (PDF). The University of Sydney. 2002. p. 1. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
22. The Faculty of Law Handbook 2001 (PDF). The University of Sydney. 2001. p. 1. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
23. Kirby, Michael. 2005 Charteris Lecture:THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION ON BIOETHICS AND HUMAN RIGHTS - PRESENT AT THE CREATION (PDF) (Speech).
24. "Archibald Hamilton Charteris P038".
25. Shearer, Ivan (2000). "Obituary: Professor David Johnson (1920-1999)". The Sydney Law School Reports. Vol. 1. p. 10.
26. "Biography: Judge James Crawford | Squire Law Library". www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
27. "Emeritus Professor Ivan Shearer".
28. "Donald R. Rothwell".
29. "Former President - Professor Gillian Triggs". www.humanrights.gov.au. 14 December 2012. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
30. "Professor Ben Saul". Chatham House. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
31. "A champion of human rights". 25 May 2004.
32. McCallum, Ron (April 2003). "Professor Emeritus Alice Tay" (PDF). The Sydney Law School Reports. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
33. "News | The University of Sydney". sydney.edu.au. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
34. Tanner, Roger; Kent, John. "1. General Introduction". History of the AMME School (PDF).
35. "Kim Rasmussen awarded the Challis Professorship".

External links

• http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks15/1500721h/0-dict-biogCa-Ch.html#challis1
• http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/challis-john-henry-3186