Quain Professor is the professorship title for certain disciplines at
University College London, England. The title honours
Richard Quain Richard Quain may refer to:
* Richard Quain (Irish physician) (1816–1898)
* Richard Quain (English surgeon) (1800–1887), English anatomist and surgeon
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, who became Professor of Anatomy in 1832 at what would become University College, London. Quain left a legacy to the University to endow professorships in four subjects in 1887.
He intended that the funding should recognise his brother,
John Richard Quain
Sir John Richard Quain (1816–1876) was an Irish barrister and judge in England.
Life
The youngest son of Richard Quain of Ratheahy, County Cork, by his second wife, Margaret, daughter of Andrew Mahoney, he was born at Ratheahy in 1816. Jones Qu ...
, as well as himself.
The Burhop prize for Physics, Applied Physics or Mathematics/Physics is also drawn from these funds.
The Quain professorships cover Botany, English language and literature,
Jurisprudence, and Physics.
Botany
*
Francis Wall Oliver (1890–1925)
*
Edward J. Salisbury (1929–1943)
*
William Pearsall (1944–1957)
*Dan Lewis (1958-1978)
*Peter Robert Bell (1979-?)
English
*
William Paton Ker (1889–1920)
*
Raymond Wilson Chambers (1922–1949)
*
Albert Hugh Smith (1949–1963)
*
Randolph Quirk (1968–1981)
*
Sidney Greenbaum
Sidney Greenbaum (31 December 1929 – 28 May 1996) was a British scholar of the English language and of linguistics. He was Quain Professor of English language and literature at the University College London from 1983 to 1990 and Director ...
(1983–1990)
*David Trotter (1991–2001)
*
Rosemary Ashton (2002–2012)
*Susan Irvine (2013 – present)
Jurisprudence
*
Augustine Birrell (1896-1899)
*
Sir John Macdonell[H. J. Randall, 'Sir John Macdonell and the Study of Comparative Law', Journal of Comparative Legislation and International Law, Third Series, Vol. 12, No. 4 (1930), 191. (188–202)]（1901–1920）
*J. E. G. de Montmorency (1920-32)
*
Sir Maurice Amos（1932–1937)
[Negley Harte and John North, ''The World of UCL: 1828–2004'' (London: UCL Press, 2004), pp. 60-61.]
*
Glanville Williams
Glanville Llewelyn Williams (15 February 1911 – 10 April 1997) was a Welsh legal scholar who was the Rouse Ball Professor of English Law at the University of Cambridge from 1968 to 1978 and the Quain Professor of Jurisprudence at University ...
(1945–1955)
*
Dennis Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Hampstead (1956–1982)
*
William Twining
William Lawrence Twining (born 22 September 1934) is the Emeritus Quain Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London, having held the post until 1996. He is a leading member of the Law in Context movement, and has contributed especiall ...
(1983–1996)
*
Ronald Dworkin
Ronald Myles Dworkin (; December 11, 1931 – February 14, 2013) was an American philosopher, jurist, and scholar of United States constitutional law. At the time of his death, he was Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at New Yo ...
(1998–2005; Bentham Professor until 2008)
*
Ross Harrison (2006–2007)
*
G. A. Cohen (2008–2009)
*
John Tasioulas (2011–2014)
Physics
*
George Carey Foster (-1898)
*
Hugh Longbourne Callendar (1899-1901)
*
Frederick Thomas Trouton (1902–1914)
*
William Henry Bragg (1915–1923)
*
Edward Andrade (1928–1950)
*
Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey (1950–1972)
*
Franz Ferdinand Heymann (1975–1987)
*John Finney (1993–1999)
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Gabriel Aeppli (2002 – present)
Notes
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