rarity of these professorships, means a Regius chair is prestigious and highly sought-after. Regius Professors are traditionally addressed as "Regius" and...
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Regius Professor of Natural History may refer to: Regius Professor of Natural History (Aberdeen), at the University of Aberdeen Regius Professor of Natural...
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The Regius Chair of Astronomy is one of eight Regius Professorships at the University of Edinburgh, and was founded in 1785. Regius Professorships are...
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The Regius Professor of Natural History is a Regius Professorship at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. It was originally called the Regius Professor...
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minister and natural historian. He was Regius Professor of Natural history at the University of Edinburgh from 1779 to 1803. He was joint founder of the Royal...
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Robert Jameson (redirect from Professor Robert Jameson)
Scottish naturalist and mineralogist. As Regius Professor of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh for fifty years, developing his predecessor...
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Museum. In 1767 the museum became the responsibility of the first Regius Professor of natural history, Robert Ramsey, then in 1779 his successor John Walker...
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British Regius Professor of Natural History at Glasgow University and Keeper of the Hunterian Museum from 1866 to 1902. He was born in Edinburgh on 17 November...
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of Natural History (1767) Regius Chair of Astronomy (1785) Regius Chair of Clinical Surgery (1802) Regius Chair of Forensic Medicine (1807) Chair of Military...
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Emeritus Professor of Natural History at Edinburgh University in Scotland. Allman was born in Cork, Ireland, the son of James C. Allman of Bandon, and...
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limited in duration. The Regius Professorships are "royal" professorships, being created by the reigning monarch. The first five Regius Professorships, sometimes...
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solution. Robert Jameson, Regius Professor of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh, was the founder and life president of the Society. In 1800,...
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advances at Edinburgh. The Regius Chair in Engineering in 1868, and the Regius Chair in Geology in 1871, were also founded. In 1991 the Faculty of Science...
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advances at Edinburgh. The Regius Chair in Engineering was established in 1868, and the Regius Chair in Geology in 1871. In 1991 the Faculty of Science was...
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James Barr (biblical scholar) (category Regius Professors of Hebrew (University of Oxford))
of Oxford, he was the Oriel Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture from 1976 to 1978, and the Regius Professor of Hebrew from 1978 to 1989. Born...
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John Hutton Balfour (redirect from Professor Balfour)
a Professor of Botany, first at the University of Glasgow in 1841, moving to the University of Edinburgh and also becoming the 7th Regius Keeper of the...
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of Edinburgh, at what is now known as the City Observatory. The University of Edinburgh in 1785 and by Royal Warrant of George III created the Regius...
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Fleeming Jenkin (category Regius Professors of Engineering in Edinburgh University)
1885) was Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh, remarkable for his versatility. Known to the world as the inventor of the cable...
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Professor of Botany also becoming Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and Her Majesty's Botanist. Isaac Bayley Balfour, Regius Professor of Botany...
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William MacGillivray (category Academics of the University of Edinburgh)
the Regius Professor of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh. He was curator of the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh from...
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V. C. Wynne-Edwards (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh)
him the Regius Professor in Natural History and he continued this until retiral in 1974. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1950...
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first Regius Keeper of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh James Hutton, geologist, born in Edinburgh Elsie Inglis, doctor and suffragist, founder of maternity...
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Henry Alleyne Nicholson (category Alumni of the University of Edinburgh)
professor of natural history in the University of St. Andrews. This last post he held until 1882, when he became Regius Professor of natural history in the...
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Monica Taylor (category Alumni of the University of Glasgow)
with a chaperone. After the intervention of biologist John Graham Kerr, who was Regius Professor of Natural History at Glasgow at the time, she was finally...
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preacher, but the impact of phrenological thinking pushed him into education. He became a famous lecturer and Regius Professor of Astronomy in Glasgow University...
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Superintendence of the Late Sir C. Wyville Thomson, Knt., F. R. S., &c., Regius Professor of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh, Director of the Civilian...
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2019. "The Queen awards Regius professorships". The Royal Family. 29 January 2013. Retrieved 19 December 2019. "Regius Professor of Engineering". Imperial...
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beyond the ordinary (e.g. Chair of English Feudal Law).[citation needed] Regius Chair of Physic (1637). Regius Professor of Laws (1668). Donegall Lectureship...
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John Goodsir (category Academics of the University of Edinburgh)
conservator. In Edinburgh Goodsir had befriended Edward Forbes, who would later become Regius Professor of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh, and George...
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executive of Reed Elsevier. Sir John Elliott – Eminent English historian and former Regius Professor of Modern History. Robert John Weston Evans – Regius Professor...
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