Woodwardian Professor of Geology
The
Woodwardian Professor of Geology is a professorship at the
University of Cambridge. It was founded by John Woodward in
1728. Woodward's will dictated that the professor would be elected by the
Archbishop of Canterbury, the
Bishop of Ely, the President of the
Royal Society, the President of the
Royal College of Physicians, the Member of Parliament for the
University of Cambridge, and the University Senate.
Incumbents of the Woodwardian Professorship of Geology
- Conyers Middleton, 1731
- Charles Mason, 1734
- John Michell, 1762
- Samuel Ogden, 1764
- Thomas Green, 1778
- John Hailstone, 1788
- Adam Sedgwick, 1818
- Thomas McKenny Hughes, 1873
- John Edward Marr, 1917
- Owen Thomas Jones, 1930
- William Bernard Robinson King, 1943
- Oliver Meredith Boone Bulman, 1955
- Harry Blackmore Whittington, 1966-1983
- Ian Nicholas McCave, 1985
See also