The Professor of Music at Gresham College, London, gives free educational lectures to the general public. The college was founded for this purpose in 1597, when it created seven professorships; this was later increased to ten. Music is one of the original professorships as set out by the will of Thomas Gresham in 1575.[1]
The Professor of Music is appointed in partnership with the City of London Corporation.
Note, years given as, say, 1596 / 7 refer to Old Style and New Style dates.
| Name | Started | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 1596 / 7 | ||
| 2 | Thomas Clayton | 20 December 1607 | |
| 3 | John Taverner | 17 November 1610 | |
| 4 | Richard Knight | 28 August 1638 | |
| 5 | 7 February 1650 / 1 | ||
| 6 | Thomas Baynes | 8 March 1660 / 1 | |
| 7 | William Perry | 9 August 1681 | |
| 8 | 9 October 1696 | ||
| 9 | Robert Shippen | 4 December 1705 | |
| 10 | Edward Shippen | 7 October 1710 | |
| 11 | John Gordon | 16 January 1723 / 4 | |
| 12 | Thomas Brome | 12 March 1739 / 40 | |
| 13 | Charles Gardner | 6 December 1745 | |
| 14 | Thomas Griffin | 11 January 1763 | |
| 15 | 5 June 1771 | ||
| 16 | 17 March 1801 | ||
| 17 | 24 October 1837 | ||
| 18 | 10 July 1863 | ||
| 19 | 30 April 1890 | ||
| 20 | 11 July 1924 | ||
| 1939–45 Lectures in abeyance | |||
| 21 | Peter Latham | 29 May 1946 | |
| 22 | 1963 | ||
| 23 | 1971 | ||
| 24 | 1975 | ||
| – vacant – | 1978-79 | ||
| 25 | A Percival | 1980 | |
| – vacant – | 1983 | ||
| 26 | 1984 | ||
| 27 | 1986 | ||
| 28 | David Owen Norris[2] | 1 September 1993 | |
| 29 | Stephen Pratt / Joanna MacGregor[3] [4] | 1 September 1997 | |
| 30 | Piers Hellawell[5] | 1 September 2000 | |
| 31 | Adrian Thomas[6] | 1 September 2003 | |
| 32 | Roger Parker FBA[7] | 1 September 2006 | |
| 33 | Christopher Hogwood CBE[8] | 1 September 2010 | |
| 34 | Christopher Page FBA[9] [10] | 1 September 2014 | |
| 35 | Tom Service[11] | 2018 | |
| 36 | Marina Frolova-Walker[12] | 2019 | |
| 37 | Milton Mermikides[13] | 2023 | |