Regius Professors of Medicine at the University
The Regius Professorship of Medicine at Oxford was founded by Henry VIII in about 1546. For the sake of completeness, all 29 Regius Professors of Medicine from 1546 to the present day are listed below.
Most Regius Professors already have a full entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) and/or Wikipedia, so no biographies for them are provided on this site. There are, however, eleven regius professors – from Anthony Aylworth (1582–-97) to William Vivian (1772–1801) – who have no proper online biography elsewhere, and so they are each linked to a brief biography on this site.
Right: Bust in the University Museum of
Sir Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland,
Regius Professor of Medicine 1857–1894
Dates held |
Name |
1546–1554 |
John Warner (d.1565): see ODNB or Wikipedia |
1554–1561 |
Thomas Frauncis (Frances/ Francis) (c.1519–1574): see ODNB |
1561–1582 |
Walter Bayley (1529–1593): see ODNB or Wikipedia |
1582–1597 |
Anthony Aylworth (d.1619) |
1597–1612 |
Bartholomew Warner (1556–1619) |
1612–1647 |
Thomas Clayton senior (c.1575–1647) |
1647–1665 |
(Sir) Thomas Clayton junior (c.1612–1693) |
1665–1681 |
James Hyde (1617–1681) |
1681–1698 |
John Luffe (1647–1698) |
1698–1718 |
Thomas Hoy (b.1659, d. in or after 1721): see ODNB or Wikipedia |
1718–1729 |
Joshua Lasher (1647–1729) |
1729–1730 |
William Beauvoir (1681–1730) |
1730–1758 |
William Woodforde (d.1758) |
1759–1772 |
John Kelly (1726–1772) |
1772–1801 |
William Vivian (1727–1801) |
1801–1822 |
(Sir) Christopher Pegge (1764/5–1822) : see ODNB |
1822–1851 |
John Kidd (1775–1851): see ODNB or Wikipedia |
1851–1857 |
James Adey Ogle (1792–1857) |
1857–1894 |
(Sir) Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland (1815–1900): see ODNB or Wikipedia |
1895–1904 |
(Sir) John Scott Burdon-Sanderson: see ODNB or Wikipedia |
1904–1919 |
(Sir) William Osler (1849–1919): see ODNB or Wikipedia |
1920–1927 |
(Sir) Archibald Edward Garrod (1857–1936): see ODNB or Wikipedia |
1928–1943 |
(Sir) (Edward) Farquhar Buzzard (1871–1945): see ODNB or Wikipedia |
1943–1956 |
Arthur Duncan Gardner (1884–1977): see Wikipedia |
1956–1968 |
(Sir) George White Pickering (1904–1980): see ODNB |
1969–1979 |
(Sir) Richard Doll (1912–2005): see Wikipedia |
1979–1992 |
(Sir) Henry Harris (b.1925): see Wikipedia |
1992–2000 |
(Sir) David John Weatherall (b.1933) see: Wikipedia |
2002– |
(Sir) John Irving Bell (b.1952) see Wikipedia |
Above: grave of John Kidd in St Giles’ churchyard.
Kidd was Regius Professor of Medicine 1775–1851 and lived at 37 St Giles’ Street