Lecky Professor of History explained

The Lecky Professorship of History, previously the Lecky Professorship of Modern History is a chair at Trinity College Dublin.

The professorship was founded in 1913 in memory of William Edward Hartpole Lecky, with an endowment from his widow.^[1]

Lecky Professors of History

• Walter Alison Phillips, 1914–1939.^[2]
• Edmund Curtis, 1939–1943^[3]
• Constantia Maxwell, 1945–1951
• A. J. Otway-Ruthven, 1951-1980^[4]
• J. F. Lydon, 1980-1993^[5]
• I. S. Robinson, 1993-2015^[6]
• Ruth Mazo Karras, 2018–present^[7]

Notes and References

1. Journal of Education, vol. 36 (Oxford University Press, 1914)
2. James Johnston Auchmuty, Lecky: a biographical and critical essay (Dublin, 1945), p. 127: "The first holder of the Lecky Chair was Professor Walter Alison Phillips, Litt.D. ... who was appointed in 1914."
3. Howard B. Clarke, Medieval Dublin, the making of a metropolis (1990), p. 259
4. Annette Jocelyn Otway-Ruthven, A History of Medieval Ireland (1980), p. 459
5. Colony and Frontier in Medieval Ireland: essays presented to J. F. Lydon; ed. T. B. Barry et al. (London: Hambledon Press, 1995), p. xi
6. http://www.histories-humanities.tcd.ie/staff.php School of Histories and Humanities
7. https://www.tcd.ie/history/staff/ruth-karras.php Department of History