King Edward VII Professor of English Literature
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
- 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]
gollark: I think I actually did use those at some point to measure something, I forget.
gollark: I do know some calculus. It just doesn't come up much in my everyday life (i.e. not school).
gollark: You can just assume some things and use standard formulae, so hardly.
gollark: Really?
gollark: Why? They're an entirely reasonable format.
References
- "Professors". Cambridge. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
- "Professor Clair Wills". Murray Edwards College. University of Cambridge. 3 September 2019. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
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