The Lecky Professorship of History, previously the Lecky Professorship of Modern History is a chair at Trinity College Dublin.
The professorship was founded in 1913 in memory of William Edward Hartpole Lecky, with an endowment from his widow.Journal of Education, vol. 36 (Oxford University Press, 1914)
Lecky Professors of History Walter Alison Phillips, 1914–1939.James Johnston Auchmuty, Lecky: a biographical and critical essay (Dublin, 1945), p. 127: "The first holder of the Lecky Chair was Professor Walter Alison Phillips, Litt.D. ... who was appointed in 1914." Edmund Curtis, 1939–1943Howard B. Clarke, Medieval Dublin, the making of a metropolis (1990), p. 259 Constantia Maxwell, 1945–1951 A. J. Otway-Ruthven, 1951-1980Annette Jocelyn Otway-Ruthven, A History of Medieval Ireland (1980), p. 459 J. F. Lydon, 1980-1993Colony and Frontier in Medieval Ireland: essays presented to J. F. Lydon; ed. T. B. Barry et al. (London: Hambledon Press, 1995 ), p. xi I. S. Robinson, 1993-2015School of Histories and Humanities at tcd.ie, accessed 26 November 2010 Ruth Mazo Karras, 2018–presentDepartment of History at tcd.ie, accessed 13 May 2020
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