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The John Humphrey Plummer Professorships were established in 1931 from a bequest of £200,000 under the will of John Humphrey Plummer, an estate agent of Southport, to the University of Cambridge for the advancement of science.[1][2] The fund has been used to endow a series of professorships in various scientific fields under a number of titles.

  1. ^ The Staits Times, 16 March 1929
  2. ^ Venn Cambridge University database Archived 2010-06-14 at the Wayback Machine

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