Regius Professor of Greek (Cambridge)

The Regius Professorship of Greek is one of the oldest professorships at the University of Cambridge. The Regius Professor chair was founded in 1540 by Henry VIII with a stipend of £40 per year, subsequently increased in 1848 by a canonry of Ely Cathedral.

Regius Professors of Greek
• # 1540 John Cheke

• # 1547 Nicholas Carr

• # 1549 Francisco de Enzinas, alias Dryander

• # 1562 Bartholomew Dodington

• # 1585 Andrew Downes

• # 1625 Robert Creighton, sr.

• # 1639 James Duport

• # 1654 Ralph Widdrington

• # 1660 Isaac Barrow

• # 1663 James Valentine

• # 1666 Robert Creighton, jr.

• # 1672 Thomas Gale

• # 1672 John North

• # 1674 Benjamin Pulleyn

• # 1686 Michael Payne

• # 1695 Joshua Barnes

• # 1712 Thomas Pilgrim

• # 1726 Walter Taylor

• # 1743 William Fraigneau

• # 1750 Thomas Francklin

• # 1759 Michael Lort

• # 1771 James Lambert

• # 1780 William Cooke

• # 1792 Richard Porson

• # 1808 James Henry Monk

• # 1823 Peter Paul Dobree

• # 1825 James Scholefield

• # 1853 William Hepworth Thompson

• # 1867 Benjamin Hall Kennedy

• # 1889 Richard Claverhouse Jebb

• # 1906 Henry Jackson

• # 1921 Alfred Chilton Pearson

• # 1928 Donald Struan Robertson

• # 1950 Denys Lionel Page

• # 1974 Geoffrey Stephen Kirk

• # 1984 Eric Handley

• # 1994 Patricia Elizabeth Easterling

• # 2001 Richard Lawrence Hunter

• # 2023 Tim Whitmarsh

Official coat of arms
According to a grant of 1590, the office of Regius Professor of "Greke" at Cambridge has a coat of arms with the following blazon: Per chevron argent and sable, in chief the two Greek letters Alpha and Omega of the second, and in base a cicada (grasshopper) of the first, on a chief gules a lion passant guardant Or, charged on the side with the letter G sable. The crest has an owl.