The Professor of Music at Gresham College

Gresham College

Gresham College is an institution of higher learning located at Barnard's Inn Hall off Holborn in central London, England. It was founded in 1597 under the will of Sir Thomas Gresham and today it hosts over 140 free public lectures every year within the City of London.-History:Sir Thomas Gresham,...

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, gives free educational lectures to the general public. The college was founded for this purpose in 1596 / 7, when it appointed seven professors; this has since increased to eight and in addition the college now has visiting professors.

The Professor of Music is always appointed by the City of London Corporation.

(Years given as, say, 1596 / 7 refer to Old Style and New Style dates

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1	John Bull John Bull (composer) John Bull was an English composer, musician, and organ builder. He was a renowned keyboard performer of the virginalist school and most of his compositions were written for this medium.-Life:...	March 1596 / 7
2	Thomas Clayton	20 December 1607
3	John Taverner John Taverner (clergyman) John Taverner was the second son of Peter Taverner, the second son of Richard Taverner.Peter established himself at Hexton, Hertfordshire before John's birth. John was first educated at Westminster School and then at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he matriculated c. 1597, became a scholar in...	17 November 1610
4	Richard Knight	28 August 1638
5	Sir William Petty William Petty Sir William Petty FRS was an English economist, scientist and philosopher. He first became prominent serving Oliver Cromwell and Commonwealth in Ireland. He developed efficient methods to survey the land that was to be confiscated and given to Cromwell's soldiers...  FRS	7 February 1650 / 1
6	Thomas Baynes Thomas Baines (physician) Sir Thomas Baines, M.D. was an English physician, the lifelong companion of the ambassador Sir John Finch, M.D.-Life:Baines was born about 1622. He was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, under the tuition of Henry More, and took the degree of B.A. in 1642, and M.A. in 1649...	8 March 1660 / 1
7	William Perry	9 August 1681
8	John Newey	9 October 1696
9	Robert Shippen Robert Shippen Robert Shippen D.D. FRS was an English academic administrator at the University of Oxford.Shippen was the brother of the Tory politician WIlliam Shippen.He was educated at Stockport Grammar School and Merton College, Oxford...	4 December 1705
10	Edward Shippen	7 October 1710
11	John Gordon	16 January 1723 / 4
12	Thomas Brome	12 March 1739 / 40
13	Charles Gardner Charles Gardner Charles Austin Gardner was a Western Australian botanist.Born in Lancaster, England on 6 January 1896, he emigrated to Western Australia with his family in 1909....	6 December 1745
14	Thomas Griffin	11 January 1763
15	Theodore Aylward Sr. Theodore Aylward Sr. Theodore Aylward was and English organist.He was an Organist, successively of St Lawrence Jewry and St Michael, Cornhill , in London, and of St. George's Chapel, Windsor . As well as these appointments, he was the Gresham Professor of Music...	5 June 1771
16	R. J. S. Stevens R. J. S. Stevens Richard John Samuel Stevens was an English composer and organist.-Biography:...	17 March 1801
17	Edward Taylor Edward Taylor (music writer) Edward Taylor was an English singer, writer on music, and Gresham Professor of Music from 1837.-Life:The son of John Taylor, he was born at Norwich on 22 January 1784. From 1808 to 1815 Edward Taylor was in business at the corner of Rampant Horse Street, Norwich...	24 October 1837
18	Henry Wylde Henry Wylde Henry Wylde was a conductor, composer, teacher and music critic.Henry Wylde was born at Bushey, Hertfordshire, the elder son of Henry Wylde and Martha Lucy née Paxton. His father, then the organist at St Mary's Watford, was himself a music teacher...	10 July 1863
19	Frederick Bridge	30 April 1890
20	Henry Walford Davies Henry Walford Davies Sir Henry Walford Davies KCVO OBE was a British composer, who held the title Master of the King's Musick from 1934 until 1941.-Early life and education:...	11 July 1924
1939–45 Lectures in abeyance
21	Peter Latham	29 May 1946
22	Anthony Hopkins (sp?)	1963
23	Brian Trowell	1971
24	Iannis Xenakis Iannis Xenakis Iannis Xenakis was a Romanian-born Greek ethnic, naturalized French composer, music theorist, and architect-engineer. He is commonly recognized as one of the most important post-war avant-garde composers...	1975
25	– vacant –	1978-79
26	A Percival	1980
27	– vacant –	1983
28	John Dankworth John Dankworth Sir John Phillip William Dankworth, CBE , known in his early career as Johnny Dankworth, was an English jazz composer, saxophonist and clarinetist...	1984
29	Peter Renshaw	1986
30	David Owen Norris David Owen Norris -Life:Norris was born in 1953. He studied music at Keble College, Oxford where he was organ scholar; he is now an Honorary Fellow of the college. After leaving Oxford, he studied composition, and worked at the Royal Opera House as a repetiteur...	1 September 1993
31	Stephen Pratt / Joanna MacGregor Joanna MacGregor Joanna MacGregor is a classical, jazz and contemporary pianist.-Biography:MacGregor grew up in North London, and was educated at home by her Seventh-day Adventist parents until she attended South Hampstead High School at the age of 11. Her mother is a piano teacher who studied at the Royal...	1 September 1997
32	Piers Hellawell	1 September 2000
33	Adrian Thomas Adrian Thomas Adrian Thomas is Professor of Music at Cardiff University School of Music. He specializes in Polish Music.-Academic career:Thomas began his professional career at Queen's University Belfast in 1973. Between 1983 and 1984, he was a Visiting Fellow at University of California, San Diego, and after...	1 September 2003
34	Roger Parker Roger Parker Roger Parker is an English musicologist, and is currently Thurston Dart Professor of Music at King's College London....	1 September 2007
35	Christopher Hogwood CBE Christopher Hogwood Christopher Jarvis Haley Hogwood CBE, MA , HonMusD , born 10 September 1941, Nottingham, is an English conductor, harpsichordist, writer and musicologist, well known as the founder of the Academy of Ancient Music.-Biography:...	1 September 2010

Sources

• List of professors, Gresham College old website, Internet Archive
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