Lecky Professor of History
Professorship and chair at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
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The Lecky Professorship of History, previously the Lecky Professorship of Modern History is a chair at Trinity College Dublin.
The professorship was founded in 1913 in memory of William Edward Hartpole Lecky, with an endowment from his widow.[1]
Lecky Professors of History
- Walter Alison Phillips, 1914–1939.[2]
- Edmund Curtis, 1939–1943[3]
- Constantia Maxwell, 1945–1951
- A. J. Otway-Ruthven, 1951-1980[4]
- J. F. Lydon, 1980-1993[5]
- I. S. Robinson, 1993-2015[6]
- Ruth Mazo Karras, 2018–present[7]