The Professor of Physic 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,...

in London

London

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, England

England

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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 Physic is always appointed by the Mercers’ School Memorial Trust, which is administered by the Worshipful Company of Mercers

Worshipful Company of Mercers

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

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1	Matthew Gwinne Matthew Gwinne -Life:He was of Welsh descent, son of Edward Gwinne, grocer, and was born in London. On 28 April 1570 he entered Merchant Taylors' School. He was elected to a scholarship at St. John's College, Oxford, in 1574, and afterwards became a fellow there. He proceeded B.A. 14 May 1578, and M.A. 4 May 1582...	March 1596 / 7
2	Peter Mounsell	Sept 1607
3	Thomas Winston Thomas Winston -Life:He was the son of Thomas Winston, a carpenter, of Painswick, Gloucestershire, and his wife Judith, daughter of Roger Lancaster of Hertfordshire. He graduated M.A. at Clare Hall, Cambridge in 1602, and continued a fellow of that college till 1617...	25 Oct 1615
4	Paul de Laune	13 June 1643
5	Thomas Winston Thomas Winston -Life:He was the son of Thomas Winston, a carpenter, of Painswick, Gloucestershire, and his wife Judith, daughter of Roger Lancaster of Hertfordshire. He graduated M.A. at Clare Hall, Cambridge in 1602, and continued a fellow of that college till 1617...	20 August 1652
6	Jonathan Goddard Jonathan Goddard Jonathan Goddard was an English physician, known both as army surgeon to the forces of Oliver Cromwell, and as an active member of the Royal Society.-Life:...  FRS	7 Nov 1655
7	John Mapletoft John Mapletoft -Life:His father was Joshua Mapletoft, vicar of Margaretting and rector of Wickford, Essex, and his mother Susanna, daughter of John Collet by Susanna, sister of Nicholas Ferrar of Little Gidding. She afterwards married James Chedley, and, dying on 31 October 1657, was buried at Little Gidding....	27 March 1675
8	Henry Paman Henry Paman -Life:Son of Robert Paman, he was born at his father's estate of Chevington, Suffolk. He entered as a sizar at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, on 22 June 1643, where William Sancroft was his tutor. They became friends for life. He migrated to St. John's College, on 22 July 1646, graduated B.A. the...	21 June 1679
9	Edward Stillingfleet	21 June 1689
10	John Woodward John Woodward (naturalist) John Woodward was an English naturalist, antiquarian and geologist, and founder by bequest of the Woodwardian Professorship of Geology at Cambridge University...	13 Jan 1692-1703
11	Henry Pemberton Henry Pemberton Henry Pemberton was an English physician and man of letters. He became Gresham Professor of Physic, and edited the third edition of Principia Mathematica.-Life:...	24 May 1728
12	Thomas Healde	27 March 1771
13	Christopher Stanger	25 March 1789
14	Henry Herbert Southey Henry Herbert Southey -Life:The son of Robert Southey by his wife, Margaret Hill, and younger brother of Robert Southey, the poet, he was born at Bristol in 1783. After education at private schools in and near Great Yarmouth, his brother Robert proposed to establish him in his house in London in order that he might...	24 Oct 1834
15	Henry Powell	27 July1965
16	E Symes Thompson	5 July 1867
17	Fleming Mant Sandwith	14 March 1907
18	Robert Armstrong-Jones Robert Armstrong-Jones Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones, CBE was a Welsh physician and psychiatrist. He was the grandfather of the Earl of Snowdon.He was born Robert Jones in Ynyscynhaearn, Caernarvonshire, the son of a Congregational minister...	24 May 1918
19	George Newman	26 July 1929
20	James Alison Glover	12 Oct 1934
21	Vincent Sutherland Hodson	13 April 1937
1939–45 Lectures in abeyance
22	Hamilton Hartridge Hamilton Hartridge Hamilton Hartridge was a British eye physiologist and medical writer.Hamilton Hartridge was educated at Harrow and King's College, Cambridge, where he became a fellow from 1912 to 1926. He graduated in medicine from St George's Hospital in 1914, serving during the war as an experimental officer at...	6 June 1946
23	John Leonard d’Silva	1955
24	Arthur John Buller	1962
25	Invited lectures: H Harris and D V Davies	1964-65
26	J P Quilliam	1965
27	H C Stewart	1968
28	David Slome	1970-84?
29	John Daniel Griffiths	1986
30	Sir Kenneth L Stuart	1988
31	Francis G Cox	1 Sept 1992
32	Susan Adele Greenfield Susan Greenfield Susan Adele Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield, CBE is a British scientist, writer, broadcaster, and member of the House of Lords. Greenfield, whose specialty is the physiology of the brain, has worked to research and bring attention to Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.Greenfield is... , Baroness Greenfield	1 Sept 1995
33	Hilary Rose Hilary Rose (sociologist) Hilary Rose is a prominent British feminist of sociology of science and social policy. Currently she is Visiting Research Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics, Professor Emeritus of Social Policy at the University of Bradford and Professor Emeritus of Physick, Gresham College,...  and Steven Rose Steven Rose Steven P. Rose is a Professor of Biology and Neurobiology at the Open University and University of London.-Life:...	1 Sept 1999
34	Keith Kendrick	1 Sept 2002
35	Christopher Dye Christopher Dye Christopher Dye is Director of Health Information in the Office of HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases at the World Health Organization and, from 2006–2009, was also Gresham Professor of Physic in the City of London.-Career:...	1 Sept 2006
36	William Ayliffe	1 Sept 2009