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,[1] which was established by Erasmus Smith, who lived 1611–1691.[2] It had been preceded by a Professorship of Oratory and History in 1724, and in 1762 the original professorship continued as a Professorship of Oratory alone.[3]

One of its 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).[4][5] The current occupant of the Erasmus Smith’s chair is Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, a historian of the seventeenth-century Irish nobility.[6]

List of the professors

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References

  1. ^ https://www.tcd.ie/history/about/ TCD Department of History
  2. ^ Mathematics at TCD 1592–1992
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Webb, D.A. (1992). J.R., Barlett (ed.). Trinity College Dublin Record Volume 1991. Dublin: Trinity College Dublin Press. ISBN 1-871408-07-5.
  4. ^ https://www.tcd.ie/history/about/ TCD History- About
  5. ^ The Dublin University Calendar, Vol III for the year 1906-7, pp 359-360
  6. ^ a b https://www.tcd.ie/history/staff/ohlmeyej.php TCD History Staff
  7. ^ Aidan Clarke 1933-2020