The Professor of Humanity is a Professorship at the

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in Scotland. Under the Nova Erectio of

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the teaching of Latin was in the responsibility of the Regents. The title of Professor of Humanity was, on occasion, attached to one of the Regents' number from 1618. A separate Chair was created in 1682. After lapse it was revived in 1706.

Humanity Professors

* James Young MA (1682) * Andrew Ross MA (1706) * George Ross MA (1735) * George Muirhead MA (1754) * William Richardson MA (1773) * Josiah Walker MA (1815) *

William Ramsay Sir William Ramsay (; 2 October 1852 – 23 July 1916) was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements ...

MA (1831-1863) *

George Gilbert Ramsay George Gilbert Ramsay (1839–1921) was the Professor of Humanity at the University of Glasgow and the first president of the Scottish Mountaineering Club Established in 1889, the Scottish Mountaineering Club is a club for climbing and mountai ...

MA LLD DLitt (1863-1906) *

John Swinnerton Phillimore John Swinnerton Phillimore (26 February 1873 – 16 November 1926) was a British classical scholar, translator, and poet. Born at Boconnoc in Cornwall, Phillimore was, like his father Augustus Phillimore before him, and four brothers, educate ...

MA LLD LittD (1906-1927) * William Rennie CBE MA LLD LittD (1927-1934) * Christian James Fordyce MA LLD (1934-1971) * Peter Gerald Walsh MA PhD DLitt FRSE (1971-1991) * Roger Philip Hywell Green BA BLitt (1995-2008)

Humanity Professors

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