List of Regius Professors of Greek

• Theaker Wilder
  Theaker Wilder
  Theaker Wilder was the first Regius Professor of Greek and Senior Register at Trinity College, Dublin and became famous for being Oliver Goldsmith's 'learned savage' of a tutor.- Family :...
  
   1761- http://www.dennisonzone.com/Alumni%20Dublinenses.html
• John Stokes
  John Stokes
  John Stokes may refer to:*John William Stokes , Australian administrator*John Stokes , Principal of Queen's College, Hong Kong, buried in Wolvercote Cemetery*John Heydon Stokes , British Conservative MP 1970–1992...
  
   1764-5 http://members.westnet.com.au/web/ncgstokes/History/famstokes.htm
• Richard Graves
  Richard Graves
  Richard Graves was an English minister, poet, and novelist.Born at Mickleton Manor, Mickleton, Gloucestershire, to Richard Graves, gentleman, and his wife, Elizabeth, Graves was a student at Abingdon School and Pembroke College, Oxford...
  
   1810-
• Franc Sadleir
  Franc Sadleir
  Franc Sadleir [formerly Francis] , college head, provost of Trinity College, Dublin.-Biography:Sadleir, youngest son of Thomas Sadleir, barrister, by his first wife, Rebecca, eldest daughter of William Woodward of Clough Prior, co. Tipperary, was born in 1774. He was educated at Trinity College,...
  
   1833–1838
• William Hepworth Thompson
  William Hepworth Thompson
  William Hepworth Thompson was an English classical scholar and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.Thompson was born at York and was privately educated in Buckinghamshire before entering Trinity College, Cambridge in 1828. Graduating BA as 4th classic in 1832, he became a fellow of Trinity in 1834...
  
   1853-1866
• John Kells Ingram
  John Kells Ingram
  John Kells Ingram was an economist, Irish patriot and poet.-Academic contributions:Ingram was remarkable for his versatility....
  
   1866-1877
• Robert Yelverton Tyrrell
  Robert Yelverton Tyrrell
  Robert Yelverton Tyrrell was an Irish classical scholar who was Regius Professor of Greek at Trinity College, Dublin.-Biography:...
  
   1880 -1898
• John Bagnell Bury 1898-1902
• John Isaac Beare 1902-1915
• Josiah Gilbart Smyly 1915-1927
• William Bedell Stanford
  William Bedell Stanford
  William Bedell Stanford was an Irish classical scholar and senator. He was Regius Professor of Greek at Trinity College, Dublin between 1940 and 1980 and served as the twenty-second Chancellor of the University between 1982 and 1984.He was born in Belfast, the son of a Dublin-born Church of...
  
   1940-1980
• John Myles Dillon
  John M. Dillon
  John Myles Dillon is an Irish classicist and philosopher who was Regius Professor of Greek in Trinity College, Dublin between 1980 and 2006. Prior to that he taught at the University of California, Berkeley. He was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Athens on 15 June 2010...
  
   1980-2006
• Brian McGing 2006-http://www.tcd.ie/Classics/staff.php

See also

• Regius Professor of Greek (Cambridge)
  Regius Professor of Greek (Cambridge)
  The Regius Professorship of Greek is one of the oldest professorships at the University of Cambridge. The chair was founded by Henry VIII in 1540 with a stipend of £40 per year, subsequently increased in 1848 by a canonry of Ely Cathedral....
  
  
• Regius Professor of Greek (Oxford)
  Regius Professor of Greek (Oxford)
  The Regius Professorship of Greek is a professorship at the University of Oxford in England.Henry VIII founded the chair by 1541. He established five Regius Professorships in the University , the others being the Regius chairs of Divinity, Medicine, Civil Law and Hebrew.-List of holders:* John...