The Professor of Geometry at Gresham College , London, gives free educational lectures to the general public. The college was founded for this purpose in 1597, when it created seven professorships; this was later increased to ten. Geometry is one of the original professorships as set out by the will of Thomas Gresham in 1575. The Professor of Geometry is appointed in partnership with the City of London Corporation. [1]
Note, the notation used in dates given as, for example, "1596⁄7" refer to the practice of dual dating dates between 1 January and 25 March.
| Name | Started | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Henry Briggs | March 1596⁄7 |
| 2 | Peter Turner | 25 July 1620 |
| 3 | John Greaves | 22 February 1630⁄31 |
| 4 | Ralph Button | 15 November 1643 |
| 5 | Daniel Whistler | 13 June 1648 |
| 6 | Laurence Rooke | 7 August 1657 |
| 7 | Isaac Barrow | 16 July 1662 |
| 8 | Arthur Dacres | 20 May 1664 |
| 9 | Robert Hooke | 20 March 1664⁄5 |
| 10 | Andrew Tooke | 5 July 1704 |
| 11 | Thomas Tomlinson | 3 July 1729 |
| 12 | George Newland | 27 Jan 1731⁄2 |
| 13 | William Roman | 28 Nov 1749 |
| 14 | Wilfred Clarke | 28 August 1759 |
| 15 | S. Kittleby | 5 March 1765 |
| 16 | Samuel Birch [2] | 5 July 1808 |
| 17 | Robert Pitt Edkins [3] | 22 July 1848 |
| 18 | Benjamin Morgan Cowie [4] | 18 Dec 1854 |
| 19 | Karl Pearson | 15 Dec 1890 |
| 20 | William Henry Wagstaff [5] | 13 June 1894 |
| 1939–45 Lectures in abeyance | ||
| 21 | Louis Melville Milne-Thomson | 29 May 1946 |
| 22 | Thomas A. A. Broadbent | 1956 |
| 23 | Sir Bryan Thwaites | 1969 |
| 24 | Clive W. Kilmister [6] | 1972 |
| 25 | Sir Christopher Zeeman [7] | 1988 |
| 26 | Ian Stewart FRS [8] | 1994 |
| 27 | Sir Roger Penrose FRS [9] | 1 Sept 1998 |
| 28 | Harold Thimbleby [10] | 1 Sept 2001 |
| 29 | Robin Wilson [11] | 1 Sept 2004 |
| 30 | John D. Barrow [12] | 1 Sept 2008 |
| 31 | Raymond Flood [13] | 2012 |
| 32 | Chris Budd OBE [14] | 2016 |
| 33 | Sarah Hart [15] | 2020 |
| 34 | Alain Goriely [16] | 2024 |
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