Linacre Chair of Zoology
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The position of Linacre Professor of Zoology in the University of Oxford
was founded in 1860, initially as the Linacre Professorship of Physiology and then as the chair of Human and Comparative Anatomy, although its origins can be traced back a further 300 years, to the Linacre Lectureships at Merton College. The post is attached to a fellowship at Merton.
It is named in honour of Thomas Linacre
(1460–1524), Physician to Henry VIII
and founder of the Royal College of Physicians
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The Linacre Professor is on the Board of Management for the J.W.Jenkinson Memorial Lectureship
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University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
was founded in 1860, initially as the Linacre Professorship of Physiology and then as the chair of Human and Comparative Anatomy, although its origins can be traced back a further 300 years, to the Linacre Lectureships at Merton College. The post is attached to a fellowship at Merton.
It is named in honour of Thomas Linacre
Thomas Linacre
Thomas Linacre was a humanist scholar and physician, after whom Linacre College, Oxford and Linacre House The King's School, Canterbury are named....
(1460–1524), Physician to Henry VIII
Henry VIII of England
Henry VIII was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was Lord, and later King, of Ireland, as well as continuing the nominal claim by the English monarchs to the Kingdom of France...
and founder of the Royal College of Physicians
Royal College of Physicians
The Royal College of Physicians of London was founded in 1518 as the College of Physicians by royal charter of King Henry VIII in 1518 - the first medical institution in England to receive a royal charter...
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The Linacre Professor is on the Board of Management for the J.W.Jenkinson Memorial Lectureship
J.W.Jenkinson Memorial Lectureship
John Wilfred Jenkinson was a pioneer in the field of comparative developmental biology and one of the first to introduce experimental embryology to the UK at the start of the twentieth century. He was the first Lecturer in Embryology at the University of Oxford...
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List of Linacre professors
- 1860–1881 George RollestonGeorge RollestonGeorge Rolleston MA MD FRCP FRS was an English physician and zoologist. He was the first Linacre Professor of Anatomy and Physiology to be appointed at the University of Oxford, a post he held from 1860 until his death in 1881...
- 1881–1891 Henry Nottidge MoseleyHenry Nottidge MoseleyHenry Nottidge Moseley, FRS was a British naturalist who sailed on the global scientific expedition of the HMS Challenger in 1872 through 1876....
- 1891–1898 Sir Edwin Ray LankesterRay LankesterSir E. Ray Lankester KCB, FRS was a British zoologist, born in London.An invertebrate zoologist and evolutionary biologist, he held chairs at University College London and Oxford University. He was the third Director of the Natural History Museum, and was awarded the Copley Medal of the Royal...
- 1899–1906 Walter F.R. WeldonWalter Frank Raphael WeldonWalter Frank Raphael Weldon DSc FRS generally called Raphael Weldon, was an English evolutionary biologist and a founder of biometry...
- 1906–1921 Gilbert C. Bourne
- 1921–1946 Edwin Stephen GoodrichEdwin Stephen GoodrichEdwin Stephen Goodrich , was an English zoologist, specialising in comparative anatomy, embryology, paleontology, and evolution. He held the Linacre Chair of Zoology in the University of Oxford from 1921 to 1946...
- 1946–1961 Sir Alister Hardy
- 1961–1979 John William Sutton PringleJohn William Sutton PringleSir John William Sutton Pringle FRS was a British zoologist. His research interests were in insect physiology, especially proprioception, flight muscle, and cicada song....
- 1979–1993 Sir Richard SouthwoodRichard SouthwoodSir Thomas Richard Edmund Southwood DL, FRS was Professor of zoology and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford....
- 1993–2000 Sir Roy AndersonRoy Anderson (zoologist)Sir Roy Malcolm Anderson FRS is a leading British expert on epidemiology. He has mathematically modelled the spread of diseases such as new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and AIDS...
- 2002– Peter W. H. Holland