Lecky Professor of History

The Lecky Professorship of History, previously the Lecky Professorship of Modern History is a chair at Trinity College Dublin.

The professorship was founded in 1913 in memory of William Edward Hartpole Lecky, with an endowment from his widow.

Lecky Professors of History

 * Walter Alison Phillips, 1914–1939.
 * Edmund Curtis, 1939–1943
 * Constantia Maxwell, 1945–1951
 * A. J. Otway-Ruthven, 1951-1980
 * J. F. Lydon, 1980-1993
 * I. S. Robinson, 1993-2015
 * Ruth Mazo Karras, 2018–present