Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory explained

The Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory is an endowed chair at Harvard University. It was established in 1804, and endowed by the will of a Boston merchant, Nicholas Boylston.^[1]

Image	Name	Start date	End date	References
	John Quincy Adams	1806	1809	^[2]
	Joseph McKean	1809	1818
	Edward Tyrrel Channing	1819	1851
	Francis James Child	1851	1876
	Adams Sherman Hill	1876	1904
	Le Baron Russell Briggs	1904	1925
	Charles Townsend Copeland	1925	1928
	Robert S. Hillyer	1937	1944
	Theodore Spencer	1946	1949
	Archibald MacLeish	1949	1962
	Robert Stuart Fitzgerald	1965	1981
	Seamus Heaney	1984	1995	^[3]
	Jorie Graham	1999		^[4] ^[5]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Letter from John Quincy Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 1819 May 24 . Adams . John Quincy . harvard.edu . 2021-01-16.
2. Hendricks. Jay. July–August 1995. How Harvard Destroyed Rhetoric. Harvard Magazine. 97. 37–43. 6.
3. Web site: Honoring, and feeling, Heaney's presence. 2015-03-31. Harvard Gazette. en-US. 2020-04-11.
4. News: Jorie Graham - Harvard University Department of English. Harvard University Department of English. 2018-02-23. en-US. https://web.archive.org/web/20180402191803/https://english.fas.harvard.edu/faculty/graham/. 2018-04-02. dead.
5. Web site: Poet Jorie Graham to Read on April 26 at Library's Celebration of National Poetry Month. Library of Congress. 2020-04-11.