Chichele Professorship
Statutory professorships at the University of Oxford, England From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Statutory professorships at the University of Oxford, England From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Chichele Professorships are statutory professorships at the University of Oxford named in honour of Henry Chichele (also spelt Chicheley or Checheley, although the spelling of the academic position is consistently "Chichele"), an Archbishop of Canterbury and founder of All Souls College, Oxford. Fellowship of that college has accompanied the award of a Chichele chair since 1870.
Following the work of the 1850 Commission to examine the organization of the university, All Souls College suppressed ten of its fellowships to create the funds to establish the first two Chichele professorships: The Chichele Professor of International Law and Diplomacy, established in 1859 and first held by Mountague Bernard, and the Chichele Professor of Modern History, first held by Montagu Burrows.[citation needed]
The military history chair was originally established in 1909 as the Chichele Professorship of Military History. In 1923, the History Faculty Board first recommended that the name of the chair be changed to the history of war, but this recommendation was not implemented until 1946.[1]
There are currently Chichele Professorships in five different subjects:
The Chair was vacant from 1939 to 1943 and suspended between 1943 and 1946, when it was renamed from of Military History
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