Regius Professor of Physic (Cambridge)
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The Regius Professorship of Physic is one of the oldest professorships at the University of Cambridge, founded by Henry VIII in 1540. "Physic" is an old word for medicine, (and the root of the word physician),not physics.
[edit] Regius Professors of Physic
- John Blyth (1540)
- John Hatcher (1554)
- Henry Walker (1555)
- Thomas Lorkyn (1564)
- William Ward (1591)
- William Burton (1596)
- John Gostlyn (1623)
- John Collins (1625)
- Ralph Winterton (1635)
- Francis Glisson (1636)
- Robert Brady (1677)
- Christopher Green (1700)
- Russell Plumptre (1741)
- Isaac Pennington (1793)
- John Haviland (1817)
- Henry John Hayles Bond (1851)
- George Edward Paget (1872)
- Thomas Clifford Allbutt (1892)
- Humphry Davy Rolleston (1925)
- Walter Langdon-Brown (1932)
- John Alfred Ryle (1935)
- Lionel Ernest Howard Whitby (1945)
- Joseph Stanley Mitchell (1957)
- William John Hughes Butterfield, Baron Butterfield (1975)
- David Keith Peters (1987)
- Patrick Sissons (2005)
