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Lecky Professor of History

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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.

Lecky Professors of History

  • Walter Alison Phillips, 1914–1939.
  • Edmund Curtis, 1939–1943
  • Constantia Maxwell, 1945–1951
  • A. J. Otway-Ruthven, 1951-1980
  • James Francis Lydon, 1980-1993
  • I. S. Robinson, 1993-present

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