Disney Professor of Archaeology explained

The Disney Professorship of Archaeology is an endowed chair in archaeology at the University of Cambridge. It was endowed by English barrister and antiquarian John Disney in 1851 with a donation of £1,000. He arranged for a further £3,500 bequest upon his death in 1857.^{[1] [2]}

Disney Professors have also served as the Directors of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, which was founded in 1990.^[3]

List of Disney Professors of Archaeology

• 1851–1865 John Howard Marsden
• 1865–1879 Churchill Babington
• 1879–1887 Percy Gardner
• 1887–1892 George Forrest Browne
• 1892–1926 William Ridgeway
• 1926–1938 Ellis Minns
• 1939–1952 Dorothy Garrod
• 1952–1974 Grahame Clark
• 1974–1981 Glyn Daniel
• 1981–2004 Colin Renfrew
• 2004–2014 Graeme Barker
• 2014– Cyprian Broodbank

See also

• List of professorships at the University of Cambridge

Further reading

• Tilley, C.Y., 1989, "Discourse and power: The genre of the Cambridge inaugural lecture." In Miller, D., Rowlands, M., and Tilley, C.Y. (Eds), Domination and Resistance. London: Routledge.

External links

• Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge

Notes and References

1. Gill, David. "Disney, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/7686. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
2. Book: Clark, John Willis. Endowments of the University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1904. Cambridge. 222–223. en. John Willis Clark. Internet Archive.
3. Web site: New Disney Professor Announced. 13 December 2013. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. University of Cambridge. en. 2018-02-04.