Regius Professor of Modern History (Cambridge)

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Regius Professor of Modern History is one of the senior professorships in history at Cambridge University. It was founded in 1724 by George I.

Regius Professors of History

• Samuel Harris 1724
• Shallet Turner 1735
• Laurence Brockett 1762
• Thomas Gray 1768
• John Symonds 1771
• William Smyth (history professor) 1807
• James Stephen 1849
• Charles Kingsley 1860
• John Seeley 1869
• John Dalberg, Baron Acton of Aldenham 1895
• John Bagnell Bury 1902
• George Macaulay Trevelyan 1927
• George Norman Clark 1943
• James Ramsay Montagu Butler 1947
• Michael Clive Knowles 1954
• Herbert Butterfield 1963
• William Owen Chadwick 1968
• Geoffrey Elton 1983
• Patrick Collinson 1988
• Quentin Skinner 1996

See also: Regius Professor of Modern History (Oxford)