The Disney Professorship of Archaeology is an endowed chair in archaeology at the University of Cambridge. It was endowed by English barrister and antiquarian John Disney in 1851 with a donation of £1,000. He arranged for a further £3,500 bequest upon his death in 1857.Gill, David. "Disney, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/7686. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Disney Professors have also served as the Directors of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, which was founded in 1990.
List of Disney Professors of Archaeology
1851–1865 John Howard Marsden 1865–1879 Churchill Babington 1879–1887 Percy Gardner 1887–1892 George Forrest Browne 1892–1926 William Ridgeway 1926–1938 Ellis Minns 1939–1952 Dorothy Garrod 1952–1974 Grahame Clark 1974–1981 Glyn Daniel 1981–2004 Colin Renfrew 2004–2014 Graeme Barker 2014– Cyprian Broodbank
See also List of professorships at the University of Cambridge
References
Further reading
Tilley, C.Y., 1989, "Discourse and power: The genre of the Cambridge inaugural lecture." In Miller, D., Rowlands, M., and Tilley, C.Y. (Eds), Domination and Resistance. London: Routledge.
External links
Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge