Gresham Professor of Music

The Professor of Music at Gresham College, London, 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 Music is always appointed by the City of London Corporation.

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

Christopher Page, current Gresham Professor of Music

Former Gresham Professor of Music, Christopher Hogwood, leads a rehearsal ahead of his lecture on Schubert, January 2013

1	John Bull	March 1596 / 7
2	Thomas Clayton	20 December 1607
3	John Taverner	17 November 1610
4	Richard Knight	28 August 1638
5	William Petty	7 February 1650 / 1
6	Thomas Baynes[1]	8 March 1660 / 1
7	William Perry	9 August 1681
8	John Newey	9 October 1696
9	Robert Shippen	4 December 1705
10	Edward Shippen	7 October 1710
11	John Gordon	16 January 1723 / 4
12	Thomas Brome[2]	12 March 1739 / 40
13	Charles Gardner	6 December 1745
14	Thomas Griffin	11 January 1763
15	Theodore Aylward Sr.	5 June 1771
16	R. J. S. Stevens	17 March 1801
17	Edward Taylor	24 October 1837
18	Henry Wylde	10 July 1863
19	Frederick Bridge	30 April 1890
20	Henry Walford Davies	11 July 1924
1939–45 Lectures in abeyance
21	Peter Latham	29 May 1946
22	Antony Hopkins	1963
23	Brian Trowell	1971
24	Iannis Xenakis	1975
25	– vacant –	1978-79
26	A Percival	1980
27	– vacant –	1983
28	John Dankworth	1984
29	Peter Renshaw	1986
30	David Owen Norris	1 September 1993
31	Stephen Pratt / Joanna MacGregor	1 September 1997
32	Piers Hellawell	1 September 2000
33	Adrian Thomas	1 September 2003
34	Roger Parker	1 September 2006
35	Christopher Hogwood CBE[3]	1 September 2010
36	Christopher Page[4]	1 September 2014

References

1. "Baines, Thomas (BNS638T)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
2. "Brome, Thomas (BRM732T)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
3. Announcement on Christopher Hogwood's website
4. Announcement on the University of Cambridge, Faculty of English website

Sources

• List of professors, Gresham College old website, Internet Archive, 2004.

Further reading

• Ward, John (1740). The Lives of the Professors of Gresham College. New York & London: Johnson Reprint Corporation.