Drummond Professor of Political Economy
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The Drummond Professorship of Political Economy at All Souls College
, Oxford has been held by a number of distinguished individuals, including three Nobel laureates. The professorship is named after and was founded by Henry Drummond
. Holders of the Drummond Professorship include:
All Souls College, Oxford
The Warden and the College of the Souls of all Faithful People deceased in the University of Oxford or All Souls College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England....
, Oxford has been held by a number of distinguished individuals, including three Nobel laureates. The professorship is named after and was founded by Henry Drummond
Henry Drummond (1786-1860)
Henry Drummond , English banker, politician and writer, best known as one of the founders of the Catholic Apostolic or Irvingite Church, was born at The Grange, near Northington, Hampshire....
. Holders of the Drummond Professorship include:
- Nassau Senior, 1825-1830 and 1847-52, the first holder
- Richard WhatelyRichard WhatelyRichard Whately was an English rhetorician, logician, economist, and theologian who also served as the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin.-Life and times:...
, 1830-31 - William Forster LloydWilliam Forster LloydWilliam Forster Lloyd FRS was a British writer on economics.He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating BA in 1815 and MA in 1818....
, 1832-37 - Herman MerivaleHerman MerivaleHerman Merivale CB was an English civil servant and historian. He was the elder brother of Charles Merivale, and father of the poet Herman Charles Merivale....
, 1837- - James Edwin Thorold RogersJames Edwin Thorold RogersJames Edwin Thorold Rogers , known as Thorold Rogers, was an English economist, historian and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1886. He deployed historical and statistical methods to analyze some of the key economic and social questions in Victorian England...
, 1862–67 and 1888- - Bonamy PriceBonamy PriceBonamy Price was an English political economist.He was born at St Peter Port, Guernsey, and entered at Worcester College, Oxford, in 1825, where he took a double first in 1829. From 1830 to 1850 he was an assistant master at Rugby school...
, 1868-1888 - Francis Ysidro EdgeworthFrancis Ysidro EdgeworthFrancis Ysidro Edgeworth FBA was an Irish philosopher and political economist who made significant contributions to the methods of statistics during the 1880s...
, 1891-1922 - David Hutchison Macgregor, 1921 to 1945
- Sir Hubert Douglas Henderson, 1945-
- Sir John HicksJohn HicksSir John Richard Hicks was a British economist and one of the most important and influential economists of the twentieth century. The most familiar of his many contributions in the field of economics were his statement of consumer demand theory in microeconomics, and the IS/LM model , which...
, 1952-65 - R. C. O. MatthewsRobin Matthews (economist)Robert Charles Oliver Matthews was an economist and chess problemist.Matthews was born in Edinburgh. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He was the Drummond Professor of Political Economy at Oxford from 1965 to 1975 and the Professor of Political Economy at...
, 1965-76 - Joseph Stiglitz, 1976-1979
- Amartya SenAmartya SenAmartya Sen, CH is an Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory, and for his interest in the problems of society's poorest members...
, 1980-88 - Sir John Vickers, 1991-2008 (on leave 1998-2005)
- Vincent Crawford, 2009-onwards