The Chandos Chair of Medicine and Anatomy is a

Chair A chair is a type of seat, typically designed for one person and consisting of one or more legs, a flat or slightly angled seat and a back-rest. It may be made of wood, metal, or synthetic materials, and may be padded or upholstered in vario ...

Medicine Medicine is the science and Praxis (process), practice of caring for patients, managing the Medical diagnosis, diagnosis, prognosis, Preventive medicine, prevention, therapy, treatment, Palliative care, palliation of their injury or disease, ...

and

Anatomy Anatomy () is the branch of morphology concerned with the study of the internal structure of organisms and their parts. Anatomy is a branch of natural science that deals with the structural organization of living things. It is an old scien ...

of the

University of St Andrews The University of St Andrews (, ; abbreviated as St And in post-nominals) is a public university in St Andrews, Scotland. It is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, oldest of the four ancient universities of Scotland and, f ...

, Scotland. It was established in 1721, by a bequest of £1000 from

James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, (6 January 16739 August 1744) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the English House of Commons, English and House of Commons of Great Britain, British House of Commons from 1698 until 1714, wh ...

- then the Chancellor of the university. His original aim was to establish a ''Chair of Eloquence'', although this was rejected by the university in favour of a chair in Medicine and Anatomy. Holders of the ''Chandos Chair'' are known as ''Chandos Professors''. The Chandos Chair still exists today, although in 1875 it became a chair in

physiology Physiology (; ) is the science, scientific study of function (biology), functions and mechanism (biology), mechanisms in a life, living system. As a branches of science, subdiscipline of biology, physiology focuses on how organisms, organ syst ...

. * Thomas Simson ''1722-1764'' * James Simson ''1764-1770'' * James Flint ''1770-1811'' * Robert Briggs ''1811-1840'' * John Reid ''1841-1849'' * George Edward Day ''1849-1863'' * James Bell Pettigrew ''1875-1905'' * Percy Theodore Herring ''1908-1948'' - first described

Herring bodies Herring bodies or neurosecretory bodies are structures found in the posterior pituitary. They represent the terminal end of the axons from the hypothalamus, and hormones are temporarily stored in these locations. They are neurosecretory termin ...

* Anthony Elliot Ritchie ''1948-1969'' *

Joseph Fairweather Lamb Joseph Fairweather Lamb FRSE (1928–2015) was a 20th-century Scottish physician, who was emeritus Professor of the Chandos Chair of Physiology at the University of St Andrews. Life He was born at Balnacake Farm near Brechin on 18 July 1928A ...

''1969-1993'' * Ian Johnston ''1997-present''

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*{{cite book, title=The Scottish Review, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OFAcAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA61, year=1895, publisher=A. Gardner, pages=61– 1721 establishments in Scotland Professorships in medicine University of St Andrews