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The Disney Professorship of Archaeology, also known as the Disney Chair, is a professorship in archaeology at the University of Cambridge. It was endowed with a donation of £1,000 by John Disney in 1851, followed by a further £3,500 in a bequest at his death.

There is no association with the Walt Disney Company.

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
  • 1938–1952 Dorothy Garrod
  • 1952–1974 Grahame Clark
  • 1974–1981 Glyn Daniel
  • 1981–2004 Colin Renfrew
  • 2004–2014 Graeme Barker
  • 2014–0000 Cyprian Broodbank
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    Disney Professor of Archaeology Wikipedia


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