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The '''Professorship of Greek''' is a chair at the [[University of Glasgow]]. Following a bequest by [[Douglas MacDowell]], the chair was renamed the '''MacDowell Professor of Greek''' in his honour.
==History==
Under the Nova Erectio of King [[James VI of Scotland]] the teaching of [[Ancient Greek|Greek]] at the [[University of Glasgow]] in [[Scotland]] was the responsibility of the Regents (university teachers).<ref>{{cite web |title=Teaching at the University to 1914 |url=https://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/teaching/ |website=The University of Glasgow Story |publisher=University of Glasgow |accessdate=11 November 2018}}</ref> From 1581 one of the Regents was sometimes given the title Professor of Greek.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Moss |first=Michael |url=https://www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_61834_smxx.pdf |title=Who, Where and When: The History & Constitution of the University of Glasgow |last2=Rankin |first2=Moira |last3=Richmond |first3=Lesley |publisher=University of Glasgow |year=2001 |isbn=0852617348 |pages=101}}</ref> The Professorship was more formally established in 1704.<ref>{{cite web |title=Professorships: Greek (MacDowell Chair) |url=https://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/chair-and-lectureship/?id=760 |website=The University of Glasgow Story |publisher=University of Glasgow |accessdate=11 November 2018}}</ref>
Following the retirement of Douglas MacDowell in 2001, the University opted to let the Chair of Greek lapse. However, upon his MacDowell's death the University received a bequest from his [[Estate (law)|estate]] of over £2 million. The money was used to re-establish the chair, with the first incumbent of the Macdowell Chair in Greek appointed in 2012.<ref>{{cite web |title=University of Glasgow revives Chair of Greek with £2.4m bequest |url=https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/archiveofnews/2012/january/headline_220540_en.html |website=University of Glasgow |accessdate=11 November 2018 |language=en |date=17 January 2012}}</ref>
==List of Professors of Greek==
The following have held the post:
'''Professor of Greek'''
* [[Alexander Dunlop (scholar)|Alexander Dunlop]] MA LLD (1704–1746)
* James Moore MA LLD (1746–1774)
* [[John Young (professor of Greek)|John Young]] MA (1774–1821)
* Sir [[Daniel Keyte Sandford]] MA DCL MP (1821–1838)
* [[Edmund Law Lushington]] MA LLD (1838–1875)
* Sir [[Richard Claverhouse Jebb]] MA LLD LittD FBA (1875–1889)
* [[Gilbert Murray|George Gilbert Aime Murray]] MA FBA (1889–1899)
* [[John Swinnerton Phillimore]] MA LLD LittD (1899–1906)
* [[Gilbert Austin Davies]] MA (1906–1934)
* William Rennie CBE MA LLD DLitt (1934–1946)
* [[Arnold Wycombe Gomme]] MA LLD FBA (1946–1957)
* [[Donald James Allan]] MA FBA (1957–1971)
* [[Douglas Maurice MacDowell]] MA MLitt DLitt FRSE FBA (1971–2001)<ref>{{cite web |title=Biography of Douglas Maurice MacDowell |url=https://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH2323&type=P |website=The University of Glasgow Story |publisher=University of Glasgow |accessdate=11 November 2018}}</ref>
'''MacDowell Professor of Greek'''
* Jan Stenger (2012–2022?)
* Andrew Morrison (2023–present) <ref>{{cite web|title=Staff profile: Andrew Morrison|url=https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/staff/andrewmorrison/|accessdate=9 September 2023}}</ref>
==See also==
* [[List of Professorships at the University of Glasgow]]
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