Regius Professor of Modern History
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Regius Professor of Modern History is one of the senior professorships in history at Cambridge University, and was founded in 1724 by George I.
Regius Professors of History
- Samuel Harris 1724
- Shallet Turner 1735
- Laurence Brockett 1762
- Thomas Gray 1768
- William Smyth 1807
- James Stephen 1849
- Charles Kingsley 1860
- John Seeley 1869
- John Dalberg, Baron Acton of Aldenham 1895
- John Bagnell Bury 1902
- George Macaulay Trevelyan 1927
- George Norman Clark 1943
- James Ramsay Montagu Butler 1947
- Michael Clive Knowles 1954
- Herbert Butterfield 1963
- William Owen Chadwick 1968
- Geoffrey Elton 1983
- Patrick Collinson 1988
- Quentin Skinner 1996