The historical register: a supplement to the Oxford University Calendar, with an alphabetical record of university honours and distinctions completed to the end of Trinity Term, 1900.

University of Oxford

Date:: 1900

Credit: The historical register: a supplement to the Oxford University Calendar, with an alphabetical record of university honours and distinctions completed to the end of Trinity Term, 1900. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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$upon those students who were hound to attend the lectures. After tlie introduction of the first Procuratorial Cycle in 1629, these readers were chosen according to that cycle, and held office for two years. At length these lectures, like the lectures on Moral Philosopliy, fell into disuse, and even the form of electing readers was dropped, although the tax for their maintenance was still collected. This con- tinued till the year 1839, when a statute was passed, which, dealing vnth the subject of Logic only, directed that there should be a regular Prselector of Logic, elected by Convocation for a period of ten years, but capable of re-election, who should receive as his stipend the produce of a small tax imposed upon all Members of the University lielow the degree of Master of Arts. By subsequent statutes the stipend was raised to ^£400 a year, and the Professoi-ship made tenable for life. Under statutes made by the Commissioners of 1877 for the Uni- versity and New College respectively, the Professorship is now styled the Wykeham Professorship of Logic; a Professor-Fellowship in New College is attached to the chair; and the stipend is fixed at £900 a year, namely, ^£400 from the University Chest, and ^300, with the emoluments, amounting to £200, of an Ordinary Pellowship, from the revenues of New College. The Profes.sor is elected by a board consisting of the Vice-Chancellor, the Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy, White's Professor of Moral Philosophy, a person nominated on each occasion by the Warden and Fellows of New Col- lege to act as an elector on that occasion, and a person (at present D. B. Monro, M.A., Provost of Oriel) nominated as a permanent elector by the Hebdomadal Council, subject to the approval of Con- vocation. Professors. 1839 Richard Michel], B.D., Fellow of Lincoln; nfterwnrds Public Orator, and Principal of Magdalen Hall; Principal of Hertford College; D.D. 1849 Henry Wall, M.A., Fellow of Balliol 1873 Tliomas Fowler, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln; afterwards President of Corpus ; D.D. 1889 John Cook Wilson, M.A., Fellow of Oriel; Fellow of New College. ' Eegius Pkofessoeships of Pastoral Theology and Ecclesiastical History. An Act of Parliament of the year ]840 (3 and 4 Yict. c. 113) directed that two canonries of Christ Church should be annexed to two new Professorships, which Her ]\Iajesty was intending to found in this University; and in 1842 these two chairs were established by letters patent under the great seal, the University having undertaken to pay a yearly stipend of £300 to each Professor until he should .'succeed to his canonry. The first canonry fell vacant in 1849, the second in 1858.$