REGIUS PROFESSOR OF PHYSIC (CAMBRIDGE)

The 'Regius Professorship of Physic' is one of the oldest professorships at the University of Cambridge, founded by Henry VIII in 1540. "Physic" is an old word for medicine, ''not physics''.

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Regius Professors of Physic

Regius Professors of Physic

★ John Blyth (1540)

★ John Hatcher (1554)

★ Henry Walker (1555)

★ Thomas Lorkyn (1564)

★ William Ward (1591)

★ William Burton (1596)

★ John Gostlyn (1623)

★ John Collins (1625)

★ Ralph Winterton (1635)

★ Francis Glisson (1636)

★ Robert Brady (1677)

★ Christopher Green (1700)

★ Russell Plumptre (1741)

★ Isaac Pennington (1793)

★ John Haviland (1817)

★ Henry John Hayles Bond (1851)

★ George Edward Paget (1872)

★ Thomas Clifford Allbutt (1892)

★ Humphry Davy Rolleston (1925)

★ Walter Langdon-Brown (1932)

★ John Alfred Ryle (1935)

★ Lionel Ernest Howard Whitby (1945)

★ Joseph Stanley Mitchell (1957)

★ William John Hughes Butterfield, Baron Butterfield (1975)

★ David Keith Peters (1987)

★ Patrick Sissons (2005)