Gresham Professor of Geometry

The Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London, gives free educational lectures to the general public. The college was founded for this purpose in 1597, when it created seven professorships; this was later increased to ten. Geometry is one of the original professorships as set out by the will of Thomas Gresham in 1575. The Professor of Geometry is appointed in partnership with the City of London Corporation.^[1]

Alain Goriely FRS, appointed Gresham Professor of Geometry in 2024

List of Gresham Professors of Geometry

Note, the notation used in dates given as, for example, "1596⁄7" refer to the practice of dual dating dates between 1 January and 25 March.

	Name	Started
1	Henry Briggs	March 1596⁄7
2	Peter Turner	25 July 1620
3	John Greaves	22 February 1630⁄31
4	Ralph Button	15 November 1643
5	Daniel Whistler	13 June 1648
6	Laurence Rooke	7 August 1657
7	Isaac Barrow	16 July 1662
8	Arthur Dacres	20 May 1664
9	Robert Hooke	20 March 1664⁄5
10	Andrew Tooke	5 July 1704
11	Thomas Tomlinson	3 July 1729
12	George Newland	27 Jan 1731⁄2
13	William Roman	28 Nov 1749
14	Wilfred Clarke	28 August 1759
15	S. Kittleby	5 March 1765
16	Samuel Birch[2]	5 July 1808
17	Robert Pitt Edkins[3]	22 July 1848
18	Benjamin Morgan Cowie[4]	18 Dec 1854
19	Karl Pearson	15 Dec 1890
20	William Henry Wagstaff[5]	13 June 1894
1939–45 Lectures in abeyance
21	Louis Melville Milne-Thomson	29 May 1946
22	Thomas A. A. Broadbent	1956
23	Sir Bryan Thwaites	1969
24	Clive W. Kilmister[6]	1972
25	Sir Christopher Zeeman[7]	1988
26	Ian Stewart FRS[8]	1994
27	Sir Roger Penrose FRS[9]	1 Sept 1998
28	Harold Thimbleby[10]	1 Sept 2001
29	Robin Wilson[11]	1 Sept 2004
30	John D. Barrow[12]	1 Sept 2008
31	Raymond Flood[13]	2012
32	Chris Budd OBE[14]	2016
33	Sarah Hart[15]	2020
34	Alain Goriely[16]	2024

References

• Gresham College old website, Internet Archive List of professors
• Gresham College website Profile of current professor and list of past professors

Notes

1. "How We Recruit Speakers | Gresham College". www.gresham.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
2. "Birch, Samuel (BRC798S)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
3. "Edkins, Robert Pitt (EDKS826RP)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
4. "Cowie, Benjamin Morgan (CWY833BM)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
5. "Wagstaff, William Henry (WGSF885WH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
6. "Professor Clive Kilmister | Gresham College". www.gresham.ac.uk. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
7. "Sir Christopher Zeeman | Gresham College". www.gresham.ac.uk. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
8. "Professor Ian Stewart FRS | Gresham College". www.gresham.ac.uk. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
9. "Sir Roger Penrose | Gresham College". www.gresham.ac.uk. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
10. "Professor Harold Thimbleby | Gresham College". www.gresham.ac.uk. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
11. "Professor Robin Wilson | Gresham College". www.gresham.ac.uk. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
12. "Professor John D Barrow FRS | Gresham College". www.gresham.ac.uk. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
13. "Professor Raymond Flood | Gresham College". www.gresham.ac.uk. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
14. "Professor Chris Budd | Gresham College". www.gresham.ac.uk. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
15. "Professor Sarah Hart | Gresham College". www.gresham.ac.uk. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
16. "Professor Alain Goriely | Gresham College". www.gresham.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 June 2024.

External links

• '400 Years of Geometry at Gresham College', lecture by Robin Wilson at Gresham College, 14 May 2008 (available for download as PDF, audio and video files)

Further reading

• Ward, John (1740). The Lives of the Professors of Gresham College. New York & London: Johnson Reprint Corporation.