Aldrichian Chairs
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The Aldrichian chairs were professorial positions at the University of Oxford during the nineteenth century, endowed by George Oakley Aldrich.
Chair of Chemistry
The initial holder of the Aldrichian Chair of Chemistry was John Kidd, from 1803. He resigned when the Regius Chair of Physic became vacant on the death of Christopher Pegge in 1822.[1] Kidd made sure he was succeeded as Aldrichian Professor by Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny. For financial reasons Daubeny held onto the chair until 1854, when a college stipend he held was increased.[2]
The third and final holder of the Chair was Benjamin Collins Brodie, elected in 1855. It was renamed the Waynflete Chair of Chemistry in 1865.[3] The funding was transferred in the 1870s to create the Aldrichian Demonstrator in Chemistry.[4]
Chair of Physic
From 1803 to 1824 Robert Bourne was the first Aldrichian professor of physic.[5] The endowment was also supposed to support an anatomy professor.[6] In practice the anatomy funds were added to those from the benefaction of Richard Tomlins, to provide an anatomy reader.[7]
George Oakley Aldrich
Aldrich matriculated at Merton College in 1739. He graduated B.A. in 1742, M.A. in 1745, M.B. and M.D. in 1755.[8]
Notes
- ^ Clark, J. F. M. "Kidd, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/15511. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Goddard, Nicholas. "Daubeny, Charles Giles Bridle". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/7187. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Brock, W. H. "Brodie, Sir Benjamin Collins, second baronet". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/3485. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Brock, M. G.; Curthoys, Mark C. (1997). Nineteenth-century Oxford. Clarendon Press. p. 675 note 120. ISBN 9780199510160.
- ^ Brock, W. H. "Bourne, Robert". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/3009. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Townsend, George Henry (1867). The Manual of Dates: A Dictionary of Reference to the Most Important Events in the History of Mankind to be Found in Authentic Records. Frederick Warne&Company. p. 739.
- ^ Oxford, University of; Ward, G. R. M.; Heywood, James (1851). Oxford University Statutes. William Pickering. p. 238.
- ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.