The Disney Professorship of Archaeology is an endowed chair in archaeology at the University of Cambridge. It was endowed by English barrister and antiquarian John Disney in 1851 with a donation of £1,000. He arranged for a further £3,500 bequest upon his death in 1857.[1][2]
As of 2022 Disney Professors have also served as the Directors of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, which was founded in 1990.[3]
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
- 1939–1952 Dorothy Garrod
- 1952–1974 Grahame Clark
- 1974–1981 Glyn Daniel
- 1981–2004 Colin Renfrew
- 2004–2014 Graeme Barker
- 2014– Cyprian Broodbank
See also
References
- ↑ Gill, David. "Disney, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/7686. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ↑ Clark, John Willis (1904). Endowments of the University of Cambridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 222–223 – via Internet Archive.
- ↑ "New Disney Professor Announced". McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. University of Cambridge. 13 December 2013. Retrieved 2018-02-04.
Further reading
- Tilley, C.Y., 1989, "Discourse and power: The genre of the Cambridge inaugural lecture." In Miller, D., Rowlands, M., and Tilley, C.Y. (Eds), Domination and Resistance. London: Routledge.
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