Lecky Professor of History

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

Notes

  1. Journal of Education, vol. 36 (Oxford University Press, 1914)
  2. James Johnston Auchmuty, Lecky: a biographical and critical essay (Dublin, 1945), p. 127: "The first holder of the Lecky Chair was Professor Walter Alison Phillips, Litt.D. ... who was appointed in 1914."
  3. Howard B. Clarke, Medieval Dublin, the making of a metropolis (1990), p. 259
  4. Annette Jocelyn Otway-Ruthven, A History of Medieval Ireland (1980), p. 459
  5. Colony and Frontier in Medieval Ireland: essays presented to J. F. Lydon; ed. T. B. Barry et al. (London: Hambledon Press, 1995 ISBN 1852851228), p. xi
  6. School of Histories and Humanities at tcd.ie, accessed 26 November 2010
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