Regius Professor of Hebrew
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The Regius Professorship of Hebrew is one of the oldest and most prestigious of the professorships at the University of Cambridge.
The chair was founded by Henry VIII in 1540 with a stipend of £40 per year, subsequently increased in 1848 by a canonry of Ely Cathedral.
Regius Professors of Hebrew
- Thomas Wakefield (1540)
- Paulus Fagius (1549)
- Johannes Immanuel Tremellius (1550)
- Antoine Rodolphe Chevallier (1569)
- Philippe Bignon (1572)
- Edward Lively (1575)
- Robert Spaldinge (1605)
- Geoffrey Kynge (1607)
- Andrew Byng (1608)
- Robert Metcalfe (1622?)
- Ralph Cudworth (1645)
- Wolfram Stubbe (1688)
- James Talbot (1699)
- Henry Sike (1705)
- Philip Bouquett (1712)
- Thomas Harrison (1748)
- Charles Torriano (1753)
- William Disney (1757)
- William Collier (1771)
- John Porter (1790)
- Henry Lloyd (1795)
- Samuel Lee (1831)
- William Hodge Mill (1848)
- Thomas Jarrett (1854)
- Alexander Francis Kirkpatrick (1882)
- Robert Hatch Kennett (1903)
- Stanley Arthur Cook (1932)
- David Winton Thomas (1938)
- John Adney Emerton (1968)
- Robert Patterson Gordon (1995)