List of fellows of the British Academy elected in the 1900s

The Fellowship of the British Academy consists of world-leading scholars and researchers in the humanities and social sciences. Fellows are elected each year in July at the Academy's annual general meeting.^[1]

First fellows

The following fellows were appointed in the Charter of the Incorporation of the British Academy on 8 August 1902:^[2]

• The Right Honourable The Earl of Rosebery, KG, KT
• The Right Honourable The Viscount Dillon, President of the Society of Antiquaries
• The Right Honourable The Lord Reay, GCSI, GCIE, President of the Royal Asiatic Society
• The Right Honourable Arthur James Balfour, MP
• The Right Honourable John Morley, MP
• The Right Honourable James Bryce, MP
• The Right Honourable William Edward Hartpole Lecky, MP
• Sir William Reynell Anson, Baronet, MP, Warden of All Souls College, Oxford
• Sir Frederick Pollock, Baronet, Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence in the University of Oxford
• Sir Edward Maunde Thompson, KCB., Director and Principal Librarian, British Museum
• Sir Henry Churchill Maxwell-Lyte, KCB, Deputy-Keeper of the Public Records
• Sir Courtenay Peregrine Ilbert, KCSI, CIE
• Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb, MP, Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge
• David Binning Monro, Provost of Oriel College and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford
• Adolphus William Ward, Master of Peterhouse and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
• Edward Caird, Master of Balliol College, Oxford
• Henry Francis Pelham, President of Trinity College and Camden Professor of Ancient History in the University of Oxford
• John Rhys, Principal of Jesus College and Professor of Celtic in the University of Oxford
• The Reverend George Salmon, DD, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin
• John Bagnell Bury, Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Dublin
• Samuel Henry Butcher, Professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh
• Ingram Bywater, Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford
• Edward Byles Cowell, Professor of Sanskrit in the University of Cambridge
• The Reverend William Cunningham, DD
• Thomas William Rhys Davids, Professor of Pali in University College, London
• Albert Venn Dicey, KC, Vinerian Professor of English Law in the University of Oxford
• The Reverend Canon Samuel Rolles Driver, DD, Regius Professor of Hebrew in the University of Oxford
• Robinson Ellis, Corpus Professor of Latin in the University of Oxford
• Arthur John Evans, Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
• The Reverend Andrew Martin Fairbairn, DD, Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford
• The Reverend Robert Flint, DD, Professor of Divinity in the University of Edinburgh
• James George Frazer
• Israel Gollancz, University Lecturer in English in the University of Cambridge
• Thomas Hodgkin
• Shadworth Hollway Hodgson
• Thomas Erskine Holland, KC, Professor of International Law and Diplomacy in the University of Oxford
• Frederick William Maitland, Downing Professor of English Law in the University of Cambridge
• Alfred Marshall, Professor of Political Economy in the University of Cambridge
• The Reverend John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, Professor of Latin in the University of Cambridge
• James Augustus Henry Murray
• William Mitchell Ramsay, Professor of Humanity in the University of Aberdeen
• The Reverend Canon William Sanday, DD, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxford
• The Reverend Walter William Skeat, Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Cambridge
• Leslie Stephen
• Whitley Stokes CSI, CIE
• Rev Henry Barclay Swete, DD, Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge
• Rev. Henry Fanshawe Tozer
• Robert Yelverton Tyrrell, Professor of Ancient History in the University of Dublin
• James Ward, Professor of Mental Philosophy in the University of Cambridge

1903

The following were elected fellows in March 1903:^[3]

• Professor B. Bosanquet
• Professor E. G. Browne
• Arthur Cohen, KC
• F. C. Conybeare
• F. Y. Edgeworth
• C. H. Firth
• A. Campbell Fraser
• Sir Edward Fry
• Dr F. J. Furnivall
• Professor P. Gardner
• Dr Henry Jackson
• Dr M. R. James
• Dr F. G. Kenyon
• Professor W. P. Ker
• The Lord Lindley
• Sir A. Lyall, KCB, GCIE
• Professor W. R. Morfill
• Dr A. S. Murray
• Professor J. S. Nicholson
• Dr G. W. Prothero
• Very Rev. J. Armitage Robinson, DD
• Professor G. F. Stout

1904

The following were elected fellows in June 1904:^[4]

• Rev. Professor T. K. Cheyne, DD
• F. J. Haverfield
• Professor Henry Jones
• Professor A. S. Napier
• Professor A. Seth Pringle Pattison
• Dr John Peile
• Professor W. M. Flinders Petrie
• Dr R. L. Poole
• Professor W. Ridgeway
• Sir G. O. Trevelyan, Baronet
• Sir Spencer Walpole, KCB
• Professor Joseph Wright

1905

• Professor F. C. Burkitt
• Professor H. S. Foxwell
• Professor W. M. Lindsay
• Sir Charles W. C. Oman, KBE, MP
• Professor W. R. Sorley
• Edward Armstrong
• Lord Davey
• Lord Goschen
• Professor B. P. Grenfell
• Dr D. G. Hogarth, CMG
• Sir Paul Vinogradoff
• John Wordsworth

1906

• Sir G. F. Warner
• Ven. Archdeacon Charles
• Dr W. J. Courthope, CB
• Professor J. FitzMaurice-Kelly
• Andrew Lang
• Professor A. A. MacDonell
• Dr J. Ellis McTaggart
• Rev. Canon Moore

1907

• H. A. L. Fisher
• Dr Henry Bradley
• Professor J. P. Postgate
• Professor J. Cook Wilson

1908

• Marquess Curzon of Keddleston, KG

1909

• Professor Hume Brown
• Lord Justice Kennedy
• Professor C. S. Kenny
• Very Rev. Hastings Rashdall
• Sir John E. Sandys
• Professor Cuthbert H. Turner

See also

• List of fellows of the British Academy

References

Unless stated otherwise, the names are from the list of fellows, alive and dead, in Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. xviii (1932), pp. vii–x.

Citations

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