The chair of the Professor of Anatomy at the University of Cambridge was founded by the university in 1707. In 1924, the scope of the professorship was extended from purely human anatomy to cover the anatomy of all vertebrates, as well as embryology.

Professors of Anatomy

  1. George Rolfe (1707)
  2. John Morgan (1728)
  3. George Cuthbert (1734)
  4. Robert Bankes (1735)
  5. William Gibson (1746)
  6. Charles Collignon[1] (1753)
  7. Sir Busick Harwood[2] (1785)
  8. John Haviland (1814)
  9. William Clark[2] (1817–1866)[3]
  10. George Humphry (1866)
  11. Alexander MacAlister (1883–1919)
  12. James Thomas Wilson (1920)
  13. Henry Harris (1934)
  14. James Dixon Boyd (1951)
  15. Richard John Harrison (1968)
  16. Hans Kuypers (1984–1989)
  17. Raymond Lund (1992–1995)
  18. Bill Harris (1997)
  19. Ewa Paluch (2018)[4]

References

  1. ↑ Michael Bevan, ‘Collignon, Charles (1725–1785)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 11 Nov 2014
  2. 1 2 Rolleston, Sir Humphry Davy (1932). The Cambridge Medical School: A Biographical History. CUP Archive. p. 61. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
  3. ↑ "A Cambridge Alumni Database".
  4. ↑ "Elections, appointments, and grants of title". Cambridge University Reporter (6490). 10 January 2018. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
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