Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History

Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History is a chair in history at Trinity College Dublin. It was founded in 1762 and funded by the Erasmus Smith Trust, which was established by Erasmus Smith, who lived 1611–1691.^[1]

One of its first incumbents was the celebrated J.B. Bury (1861-1927), author of History of the Roman Empire (1893), The Life of St. Patrick and his place in History (1905) and A History of Freedom of Thought. (1914). Under F.S.L. Lyons (1923-83), the Department played a leading role in the creation of a critical school of modern Irish historical scholarship.^[2] The current occupant of the Erasmus Smith’s chair is Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, a historian of the seventeenth-century Irish nobility.

Professors

• J.B. Bury (1861-1927)
• T.W. Moody (1907-84)
• F.S.L. Lyons (1923-83)
• Jane H. Ohlmeyer (2003-present)^[3]

See also

• List of professorships at the University of Dublin

References