Quain Professor
Quain Professor is the professorship title for certain disciplines at University College London, England.
Donor
The title honours Richard Quain (1800–1887), who became Professor of Anatomy in 1832 at what would become University College, London. Quain left a legacy to the University to endow professorships in four subjects. He intended that the funding should recognise his brother, John Richard Quain, as well as himself.
Scope
The Burhop prize for Physics, Applied Physics or Mathematics/Physics is also drawn from these funds.[1]
The Quain professorships cover Botany, English language and literature, Jurisprudence, and Physics:
Botany
- Francis Wall Oliver (1890–1925)
- Edward J. Salisbury (1929–1943)
- William Pearsall (1944–1957)
English
- William Paton Ker (1889–1920)
- Raymond Wilson Chambers (1922–1949)
- Albert Hugh Smith (1949–1963)
- Randolph Quirk (1968–1981)
- Sidney Greenbaum (1983–1990)
- David Trotter (1991–2001)
- Rosemary Ashton (2002–2012)
- Susan Irvine (2013 – present)
Jurisprudence
The chair was established as the Quain Professor of Comparative Law in 1984.[2]
- Sir John Macdonell[3]（1901–1920）
- J. E. G. de Montmorency
- Sir Maurice Amos（1932–1937[4]
- Glanville Williams (1945–1955)
- Dennis Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Hampstead (1956–1982)
- William Twining (1983–1996)
- Ronald Dworkin (1998–2005; Bentham Professor until 2008)
- Ross Harrison (2006–2007)
- G. A. Cohen (2008–2009)
- John Tasioulas (2011–2014)
Physics
- Frederick Thomas Trouton (1902–1914)
- William Henry Bragg (1915–1923)
- Edward Andrade (1928–1950)
- Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey (1950–1972)
- Franz Ferdinand Heymann (1975–1987)
- John Finney (1993–1999)
- Gabriel Aeppli (2002 – present)
Notes
- "Money" University College London (website) 2010. burhop
- Peter De Cruz, Comparative Law in a Changing World (London: Routledge, 1999), 15.
- H. J. Randall, 'Sir John Macdonell and the Study of Comparative Law', Journal of Comparative Legislation and International Law, Third Series, Vol. 12, No. 4 (1930), 191. (188–202)
- Negley Harte and John North, The World of UCL: 1828–2004 (London: UCL Press, 2004), pp. 60-61.
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