The Professor of Physic (medicine) at Gresham College in London, England, gives free educational lectures to the general public. The college was founded for this purpose in 1596 / 7, when it appointed seven professors; this has since increased to eight and in addition the college now has visiting professors.

The Professor of Physic is always appointed by the Mercers’ School Memorial Trust, which is administered by the Worshipful Company of Mercers.

(Years given as, say, 1596 / 7 refer to Old Style and New Style dates.)

1	Matthew Gwinne	March 1596 / 7
2	Peter Mounsell	Sept 1607
3	Thomas Winston	25 Oct 1615
4	Paul de Laune	13 June 1643
5	Thomas Winston	20 August 1652
6	Jonathan Goddard FRS	7 Nov 1655
7	John Mapletoft	27 March 1675
8	Henry Paman	21 June 1679
9	Edward Stillingfleet	21 June 1689
10	John Woodward	13 Jan 1692-1703
11	Henry Pemberton	24 May 1728
12	Thomas Healde	27 March 1771
13	Christopher Stranger	25 March 1789
14	Henry Herbert Southey	24 Oct 1834
15	Henry Powell	27 July1965
16	E Symes Thompson	5 July 1867
17	Fleming Mant Sandwith	14 March 1907
18	Robert Armstrong-Jones	24 May 1918
19	George Newman	26 July 1929
20	J Alison Glover	12 Oct 1934
21	Vincent Sutherland Hodson	13 April 1937
1939–45 Lectures in abeyance
22	Hamilton Hartridge	6 June 1946
23	John Leonard d’Silva	1955
24	Arthur John Buller	1962
25	Invited lectures: H Harris and D V Davies	1964-65
26	J P Quilliam	1965
27	H C Stewart	1968
28	David Slome	1970-84?
29	John Daniel Griffiths	1986
30	Sir Kenneth L Stuart	1988
31	Francis G Cox	1 Sept 1992
32	Dame Susan A Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield	1 Sept 1995
33	Hilary Rose and Steven Rose	1 Sept 1999
34	Keith Kendrick	1 Sept 2002
35	Christopher Dye	1 Sept 2006
36	William Ayliffe	1 Sept 2009

[edit] See also

• Gresham Professor of Astronomy
• Gresham Professor of Commerce
• Gresham Professor of Divinity
• Gresham Professor of Geometry (mathematics)
• Gresham Professor of Law
• Gresham Professor of Music
• Gresham Professor of Rhetoric
• Visiting Gresham Professor

[edit] References

• Gresham College old website, Internet Archive List of professors

[edit] Further reading

• Ward, J. The Lives of the Professors of Gresham College. New York & London: Johnson Reprint Corporation.