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The Regius Chair of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh was established in 1762 (as the Regius Chair of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres). It is arguably the first professorship of English Literature established anywhere in the world. Its first holder was Professor Hugh Blair.

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Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature

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The Regius Chair of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh was established in 1762 (as the Regius Chair of Rhetoric and Belles...

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Regius Professor

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Regius Professor of Anatomy (1863) Regius Professor of Botany Regius Professor of English Literature Regius Professor of Greek Regius Professor of Humanity...

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Laura Marcus

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Fellow of the British Academy. Prior to joining Oxford, Marcus was Professor of English at Sussex University and Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature...

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John Everett Butt

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an English literary scholar, known for his work on Alexander Pope. He was Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh...

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William Lindsay Renwick

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Professor of English Literature at Durham University from 1921 to 1945 and Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh...

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List of professorships at the University of Edinburgh

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Chair of Scots Law (1722) Chair of Botany (1738), now the Regius Chair of Plant Sciences Regius Chair of Rhetoric and English Literature (1762) Chair of Natural...

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List of professorships at the University of Glasgow

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1935 Regius Professorship) Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism (1861) Regius Professor of English Language and Literature (1861) Professor of Modern...

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John Frow

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to the University of Edinburgh as the Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in 2000, where he was also the director of the Institute for...

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William Minto

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assistant professor under Alexander Bain, who held the Regius Chair of Logic and the Regius Chair of English Literature at the University of Aberdeen....

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1936 Birthday Honours

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London and North Eastern Railway. Herbert John Clifford Grierson, MA LLD LittD FBA, lately Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, Edinburgh...

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Neil MacCormick

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Scottish legal philosopher and politician. He was Regius Professor of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations at the University of Edinburgh from 1972 until...

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Richard Frewin

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as Frewin Hall, to the Regius Professor of Medicine for the time being. His library of history and literature, consisting of 2,300 volumes, he left to...

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James Tait Black Memorial Prize

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literary centres of the country. The decision about the award was made by the Regius Chair of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres at the University of Edinburgh. Four...

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Petrus Ramus

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influence of Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine. He obtained a position at the Collège de Navarre. In 1551 Henry II appointed him a regius professor at the Collège...

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Richard Claverhouse Jebb

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was Professor of Greek at Glasgow, and the couple initially lived in that city, spending their summers in Cambridge. In 1889 Jebb was appointed Regius Professor...

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List of In Our Time programmes

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variety of historical, scientific, cultural, religious and philosophical topics, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom since 1998 and hosted by...

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List of people associated with University College London

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English; Gresham Professor of Rhetoric; English poet John Sutherland – Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature; columnist for The...

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Augustine of Hippo

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theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa. His writings influenced the development of Western...

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Horndean Technology College

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Marc Wootton - Actor and Comedian Mark Wingett - Actor Brett Fancy - Actor Greg Walker - Regius Professor of Rhetoric, University of Edinburgh 2018 Cyberquest...

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Science fiction

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called the "literature of ideas", and has sometimes been described as an exploration of the potential consequences of scientific, social, and technological...

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William Blackstone

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Charles Viner, was planning to endow a professorship of English law. The Regius Professorship of Civil Law had also become vacant in 1753; despite support...

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University of Edinburgh

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first Regius Professor of Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres. This formalised literature as a subject and marks the foundation of the English Literature department...

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