Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History is a chair in history at Trinity College Dublin. It was founded in 1762 and funded by the Erasmus Smith Trust,https://www.tcd.ie/history/about/ TCD Department of History which was established by Erasmus Smith, who lived 1611–1691.Mathematics at TCD 1592–1992 It had been preceded by a Professorship of Oratory and History in 1724, and in 1762 the original professorship continued as a Professorship of Oratory alone.
One of its incumbents was the celebrated J. B. Bury (1861-1927), author of History of the Roman Empire (1893), The Life of St. Patrick and his place in History (1905) and A History of Freedom of Thought (1914).https://www.tcd.ie/history/about/ TCD History- AboutThe Dublin University Calendar, Vol III for the year 1906-7, pp 359-360 The current occupant of the Erasmus Smith’s chair is Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, a historian of the seventeenth-century Irish nobility.https://www.tcd.ie/history/staff/ohlmeyej.php TCD History Staff
List of the professors
William Andrews (1762-1769) Michael Kearney (1769-1776) Henry Dabzac (1778–1790) Digby Marsh (1790-1791) George Hall (1791-1799) Francis Hodgkinson (1799-1840) Joseph Henderson Singer (1840-1860) John Lewis Moore (1850-1855) vacant (1855-1860) James William Barlow (1860-1893) J. B. Bury (1893–1902) John Henry Wardell J. R. H. Weaver (1911–1914) Edmund Curtis (1914–1939) Theodore William Moody (1939–1977) Kenneth Gordon Davies (1977-1986) Aidan Clarke (1986-2001)Aidan Clarke 1933-2020 Jane H. Ohlmeyer (2003-present)
See also List of professorships at the University of Dublin
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