Gresham Professor of Physic
# Gresham Professor of Physic

The Professor of Physic (the term for medicine at the time the post was created in 1597) at Gresham College in London, England, gives free educational lectures to the general public on medicine, health and related sciences. The college was founded to give public lectures in 1597 (New Style). Professors of Physic and more recently visiting Professors have been giving public lectures on major topics in medicine in London since 1597; recently these have also been put on line as a free resource for a wider public including outside the UK. Gresham Professors have included some of the leading scientists in Britain including Sir Christopher Wren and Robert Boyle. Gresham Professors of Physic listed below included leaders in medicine, public health, surgery and clinical science. In addition eminent medical scientists and physicians were Gresham Professors of other disciplines, such as Sir William Petty, one of the founders of demography (Gresham Professor of Music from 1651).

The Professor of Physic is always appointed by the Mercers' Side of the Joint Grand Gresham Committee, a body administered jointly by the Worshipful Company of Mercers and the City of London Corporation.

## List of Gresham Professors of Physic

| | Name | Started |
| - | - | - |
| 1 | Matthew Gwinne | March 1596 / 7 |
| 2 | Peter Mounsell | Sept 1607 |
| 3 | Thomas Winston | 25 Oct 1615 |
| 4 | Paul de Laune | 13 June 1643 |
| 5 | Thomas Winston | 20 August 1652 |
| 6 | Jonathan Goddard FRS | 7 Nov 1655 |
| 7 | John Mapletoft FRS | 27 March 1675 |
| 8 | Henry Paman FRS | 21 June 1679 |
| 9 | Edward Stillingfleet FRS | 21 June 1689 |
| 10 | John Woodward FRS | 13 Jan 1692-1703 |
| 11 | Henry Pemberton FRS | 24 May 1728 |
| 12 | Thomas Healde FRS | 27 March 1771 |
| 13 | Christopher Stanger | 25 March 1789 |
| 14 | Henry Herbert Southey FRS | 24 Oct 1834 |
| 15 | Henry Powell | 27 July 1865 |
| 16 | Edmund Symes-Thompson | 5 July 1867 |
| 17 | Fleming Mant Sandwith | 14 March 1907 |
| 18 | Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones | 24 May 1918 |
| 19 | Sir George Newman | 26 July 1929 |
| 20 | James Alison Glover | 12 Oct 1934 |
| 21 | Vincent Sutherland Hodson | 13 April 1937 |
| 1939–45 Lectures in abeyance |||
| 22 | Hamilton Hartridge FRS | 6 June 1946 |
| 23 | John Leonard d’Silva | 1955 |
| 24 | Arthur John Buller | 1962 |
| 25 | Invited lectures: H Harris and D V Davies | 1964-65 |
| 26 | J P Quilliam | 1965 |
| 27 | H C Stewart | 1968 |
| 28 | David Slome | 1970-84? |
| 29 | John Daniel Griffiths | 1986 |
| 30 | Sir Kenneth L Stuart | 1988 |
| 31 | Francis G Cox | 1 Sept 1992 |
| 32 | Susan Adele Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield | 1 Sept 1995 |
| 33 | Hilary Rose and Steven Rose | 1 Sept 1999 |
| 34 | Keith Kendrick | 1 Sept 2002 |
| 35 | Christopher Dye FRS | 1 Sept 2006 |
| 36 | William Ayliffe | 1 Sept 2009 |
| 37 | Martin Elliott | 1 Sept 2014 |
| 38 | Sir Chris Whitty | 2018 |
