Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History

Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History is a chair in history at Trinity College Dublin. It was founded in 1762 and funded by the Erasmus Smith Trust,^[1] which was established by Erasmus Smith, who lived 1611–1691.^[2] It had been preceded by a Professorship of Oratory and History in 1724, and in 1762 the original professorship continued as a Professorship of Oratory alone.^[3]

One of its incumbents was the celebrated J. B. Bury (1861-1927), author of History of the Roman Empire (1893), The Life of St. Patrick and his place in History (1905) and A History of Freedom of Thought (1914).^[4][5] The current occupant of the Erasmus Smith’s chair is Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, a historian of the seventeenth-century Irish nobility.^[6]

List of the professors

• William Andrews (1762-1769)^[3]
• Michael Kearney (1769-1776)^[3]
• Henry Dabzac (1778–1790)^[3]
• Digby Marsh (1790-1791)^[3]
• George Hall (1791-1799)^[3]
• Francis Hodgkinson (1799-1840)^[3]
• Joseph Henderson Singer (1840-1860)^[3]
• John Lewis Moore (1850-1855)^[3]
• vacant (1855-1860)^[3]
• James William Barlow (1860-1893)^[3]
• J. B. Bury (1893–1902)^[3]
• John Henry Wardell^[3]
• J. R. H. Weaver (1911–1914)^[3]
• Edmund Curtis (1914–1939)^[3]
• Theodore William Moody (1939–1977)^[3]
• Kenneth Gordon Davies (1977-1986)^[3]
• Aidan Clarke (1986-2001)^[3][7]
• Jane H. Ohlmeyer (2003-present)^[6]

See also

• List of professorships at the University of Dublin

References

This page was last edited on 17 July 2022, at 23:07