Meaning of regius professor | Babel Free

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1. A professor who holds a position created by or filled by a royal patron.
2. Part of the title of a regius professor.

Examples

“All doctors, in whatever faculty, were called likewise professores, and possessed and equal capacity to claim and occupy the chair (cathedra) on solemn inceptions and other occasions; this privilege was first restricted, by the Elizabethan statutes, to the three regii professores.”

“In Oxford there are some forty professors, of whom seven or eight are regius professors appointed by the Crown, and paid by revenues derived from the Crown.”

“For very good reasons, the College professors were keen to exclude the new regius professors - who often received a mere £50 per year from the Crown - from a share in the College revenue, and so men like the chemist Thomas Thomson and the engineer Lewis Gordon (unlike the five older regius professors of astronomy, church history, civil law, medicine, and anatomy) were without administrative and academic power in the Glasgow institution.”

“Sir Henry Acland, regius professor from 1857 to 1895, fought a series of good and largely successful fights to develop biological sciences at the university, overcoming the objections of anti-Darwinians, antivivisectionists, and others committed to tranquil inertia.”

“As our wish and our object is not so much to blame as to praise, we regret, that we gave reason (p. 216) to expect any notice of this pamphlet, whose Author, besides railing at the present arrangements of our prelacy, tythes, &c., would, by a fixed perpetual rent-charge, do that for the clergy, which, by a similar error, was badly done for our Regii Professores, i.e. provide for the clergy an unalterable annual maintenance! which, according to the present value of money, might, possibly, compensate the Clergy; but which, as the value of money changes, must, ere long, leave them paupers indeed!”

““The sum of two hundred and fifty pounds nineteen shillings and tenpence, standing in the names of the Reverend James Ameraux Jeremie, D.D., John Thomas Abdy, Esquire, LL.D., and Henry John Hayles Bond, Esquire, M.D. (three of the Regii Professores in the University of Cambridge), being the produce of two hundred and forty pounds, the purchase-money for property in Cambridge taken under the powers and provisions of the Cambridge Improvement Act, 28 George III. / “The sum of six hundred and eight pounds nine shillings and eight pence, also standing in the names of the Reverend James Ameraux Jeremie, D.D., John Thomas Abdy, Esquire, LL.D., and Henry John Hayles Bond, Esquire, M.D., the three Regii Professores in the University of Cambridge, being the produce of five hundred and sixty-two pounds seventeen shillings and sixpence, the purchase-money for property in Cambridge taken by Saint John’s College.”

“...some of us wish to avail ourselves of the opportunity to discuss them, and, as we think most proper, to make our Regius Professor a party to the discussion; and we do so because our ultimate and chief object is to co-operate with the Head of our Faculty in the duties of his chair as he has officially defined them.”

“New Troy. London was supposed to have been founded by Aeneas, descendant of Brutus, after his defeat by the Greeks. Accordingly it was also called Troynovant, as Brathwait humorously referred to it in Mercurius Britanicus: "In Troynovant . . . thou shalt see Coblers and Hucksters, that arise out of old Shoes and Panniers, beating the Pulpit and broaching new doctrines, as if they were Regii Professores, and held by the Rabble to be most profound Divinity. . . ." Quoted in Black, Richard Brathwait, An Account of His Life and Works (Philadelphia, 1928), p.76.”

“The forty-first chapter of a draft of new statutes for the college, drawn up in the reign of Queen Mary, is exclusively concerned with the three Regius Professors; and though these draft statutes were never formally approved by the Crown, and therefore never became operative, the code which Queen Elizabeth gave to the college was almost identical with them, except for such modifications as the religious changes required.”

“And this Statute, so far as the letter is concerned at any rate, does not give the powers, now claimed, to the Regius Professor — for one plain reason — that it does not once mention his name throughout.”

“A VACANCY having occurred in the HEAD MASTERSHIP of this Institution, Candidates for the Office are requested to send in their Names and Testimonials on or before the 1st of July next, to the Rev. the Regii Professores of Divinity, Hebrew, and Greek, in the University of Cambridge, under cover to the Rev. Professor Lee, D.D., College-green, Bristol, from whom information as to the duties and emoluments of the Office may be obtained.”

“Acquainted, however, as you would have us believe you are, with the internal economy of the Church, you cannot be ignorant of the fact, that the Bishops have been in the habit of requiring from all candidates for holy orders certificates of having attended the Lectures of the Divinity Regii Professores of Oxford and Cambridge, whoever these might be.”

“There were but three Regii Professores of Physic at Cambridge in the last century (Chr. Green, Cai. 1700: Russell Plumptre, Qu. 1741: Sir Isaac Pennington 1793—1817), which speaks well for their professional treatment of themselves, but I do not know that they ever lectured.”

“Finally they appointed the Regius Professors of Divinity both at Oxford and at Cambridge to provide for the occasion, and it took both of these a long series of months to propound their answers to Campion’s tract, which is only as long as a magazine article.”

“The Divinity School consists of the Regius Professor of Divinity, and Archbishop King's Lecturer, each of whom has his assistants.”

“In 1895 Sanderson succeeded Acland as Regius Professor of Medicine. Other medical sciences, including anatomy and pathology, were strengthened, the curriculum and organization of Oxford medicine was reformed, and by the 1890s it was possible to get a decent training in the preclinical medical sciences at Oxford, walk the wards for a year or two in London, and, upon examination by a regius professor who still had very few other duties, get an Oxford medical degree.”

“Sir Farquhar Buzzard on being appointed Regius Professor of Medicine in 1929 did not wish to occupy the house, and it was let by Christ Church successively to two tenants, first Miss H. L. Hurlston and later a Miss Fairburn.”

“When indeed a Popish monarch may fill our throne, and the successor of St. Peter shall be the spiritual head of our Church; then shall your “esoterics,” alias “Church principles,” be in the ascendant in our Universities, and Who shall say that we may not have a Thorp lecturer in each of our Colleges, Neale and Webb scholarships, Regii professores supplying the places of those who shall now be superannuated, all teaching, and empowered to confer degrees in the, symbolism of mystical divinity:—the professor of music, not dealing as he now must, with crotchets and quavers, but in the far higher branches of the sacramentality of sounds, with their correspondent colours, instruments, bearing, &c. &c., and so of others?”

“Prior to the passing of the ordinance of the Scottish University Commissioners, the Regius professors then in office had their share of the graduation fees as well as the parliamentary salary, and the Commissioners reserved to the then holders of those Regius Chairs the privilege of still taking their share of the graduation fees so long as they lived;”

“The agitation thus begun by Hooper, which received in1551 the 'support of Peter Martyr and Martin Bucer, foreign divines who had become Regius professors of divinity at Oxford and Cambridge, finally enlisted the sympathy of the young king, who probably gave the weight of his personal authority to a revision the history of whose making is not recorded.”

“The previous chapter outlined some of the contrasts in the thinking of Garrod and Osler, the two Regius professors.”

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