Regius Professor of Hebrew (Cambridge)

The Regius Professorship of Hebrew in the University of Cambridge is an ancient academic chair at the University of Cambridge founded by King Henry VIII in 1540.

When created, the professorship carried a permanent stipend of £40 per year. In 1848 this was increased a canonry of Ely Cathedral being attached to the post in perpetuity.

List of Regius Professors

The chair has been held by:

1540 Thomas Wakefeld^[1]
1549–1549 Paul Fagius^[2]
1550–1553 Immanuel Tremellius^[3]
1569 Antoine Rodolphe Chevallier
1572 Philippe Bignon
1575 Edward Lively
1605 Robert Spaldinge
1607 Geoffrey Kynge
1608 Andrew Byng
c. 1622 Robert Metcalfe
1645 Ralph Cudworth
1688 Wolfram Stubbe
1699 James Talbot
1705 Henry Sike
1712 Philip Bouquett
1748 Thomas Harrison
1753 Charles Torriano
1757 William Disney
1771 William Collier
1790 John Porter
1795 Henry Lloyd
1831 Samuel Lee
1848 William Hodge Mill
1854 Thomas Jarrett
1882 Alexander Francis Kirkpatrick
1903 Robert Hatch Kennett
1932 Stanley Arthur Cook
1938 David Winton Thomas
1968 John Adney Emerton
1995 Robert P. Gordon^[4]
2012 Geoffrey Khan^[5]

Official coat of arms

According to a grant of 1590, the office of Regius Professor of "Hebrew" at Cambridge has a coat of arms with the following blazon:^[6]

Coat of arms of Regius Professor of Hebrew
	Crest On a wreath "silver and sables," a turtle-dove azure. Escutcheon Argent, the Hebrew letter ת (Tawe) sable, on a chief gules, a lion passant guardant or, charged on the side with the letter H sable.

References

^ 'Wakefeld, Thomas', in Dictionary of National Biography (London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900)
^ "Paul Fagius (FGS549P)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
^ Kenneth Austin, From Judaism to Calvinism: the Life and Writings of Immanuel Tremellius (c. 1510–1580) (2007)
^ Robert Gordon Archived 2009-04-27 at the Wayback Machine at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
^ "Elections". Cambridge University Reporter (6266). 16 May 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2019.
^ A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies (1909), pp. 587-588.

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[1] 'Wakefeld, Thomas', in Dictionary of National Biography (London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900)

[2] "Paul Fagius (FGS549P)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

[3] Kenneth Austin, From Judaism to Calvinism: the Life and Writings of Immanuel Tremellius (c. 1510–1580) (2007)

[rpg-4] Robert Gordon Archived 2009-04-27 at the Wayback Machine at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

[5] "Elections". Cambridge University Reporter (6266). 16 May 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2019.

[6] A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies (1909), pp. 587-588.

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