The Regius Professorship of Greek is a professorship at the

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founded the chair by 1541. He established five

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ships in the university (and five corresponding chairs in

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), the others being the Regius chairs of

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, Civil Law and

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. The duties of a professor include: 1. The Regius Professor of Greek shall lecture and give instruction in the history and criticism of the Greek Language and Literature and on the works of classical Greek authors. 2. The professor shall be subject to the General Provisions of the decree concerning the duties of professors and to those Particular Provisions of the same decree which are applicable to this chair.

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* John Harpsfield, ca. 1541–1545 * George Etheridge (or Etherege), 1547–1550 * Giles Lawrence, 1551–1553 * George Etheridge, reinstated, 1553–1559 * Giles Lawrence, reinstated, 1559–1584 or 1585 * John Harmar (or Harmer), 1585–1590 * Henry Cuffe, 1590–1597 * John Perrin, 1597–1615 * John Hales, 1615–1619 * John Harrys, 1619–1622 * John South, 1622–1625 * Henry Stringer, 1625–1650 * John Harmar (or Harmer), 1650–1660 * Joseph Crowther, 1660–1665 * William Levinz, 1665–1698 *

Humphrey Hody Humphrey Hody (1659 – 20 January 1707) was an England, English scholar and theology, theologian. Life He was born at Odcombe in Somerset in 1659. In 1676 he entered Wadham College, Oxford, of which he became a fellow in 1685. In 1692 he ...

, 1698–1705 * Thomas Milles, 1705–1707 * Edward Thwaytes, 1707–1711 * Thomas Terry, 1712–1735 * John Fanshawe, 1735–1741 * Thomas Shaw, 1741–1751 * Samuel Dickens, 1751–1763 * William Sharp, 1763–1782 * John Randolph, 1782–1783 * William Jackson, 1783–1811 *

Thomas Gaisford Thomas Gaisford (22 December 1779 – 2 June 1855) was an English classical scholar and clergyman. He served as Dean of Christ Church from 1831 until his death. Early life Gaisford was born at Iford Manor, Wiltshire, the son of John Gaisford ...

, 1811–1855 *

Benjamin Jowett Benjamin Jowett (, modern variant ; 15 April 1817 – 1 October 1893) was an English writer and classical scholar. Additionally, he was an administrative reformer in the University of Oxford, theologian, Anglican cleric, and translator of Plato ...

, 1855–1893 * Ingram Bywater, 1893–1908 *

Gilbert Murray George Gilbert Aimé Murray (2 January 1866 – 20 May 1957) was an Australian-born British classical scholar and public intellectual, with connections in many spheres. He was an outstanding scholar of the language and culture of Ancient Greec ...

, 1908–1936 *

E. R. Dodds Eric Robertson Dodds (26 July 1893 – 8 April 1979) was an Irish classical scholar. He was Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford from 1936 to 1960. Early life and education Dodds was born in Banbridge, County Down, the son of ...

, 1936–1960 *

Hugh Lloyd-Jones Sir Peter Hugh Jefferd Lloyd-Jones (21 September 1922 – 5 October 2009)

, 1960–1989 * Peter J. Parsons, 1989–2003 * Christopher Pelling, 2003–2015 * Gregory Hutchinson, 2015–2023

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, 2004. * R. W. Chambers, "Life and Works of Nicholas Harpsfield", in ''The life and death of Sr Thomas Moore, knight, sometymes Lord high Chancellor of England, written in the tyme of Queene Marie by Nicholas Harpsfield, L.D.'', Oxford: EETS O.S. no. 186, 1932, pp. clxxv–ccxiv, esp. pp. clxxviii–clxxx. Important archival information correcting widely repeated mistaken information about the history of the chair in the 1540s. *
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