Ilchester Lectures
The Ilchester Lectures are a series of academic lectures in the University of Oxford, England, founded by William Fox-Strangways, 4th Earl of Ilchester.
History
Lord Ilchester was a diplomat representing United [Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|Great Britain and Ireland] and later a Whig politician. He served as Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs under Lord Melbourne from 1835 to 1840 and then was List of [Ambassadors from the United Kingdom to Germany|Minister Plenipotentiary to the German Confederation] from 1840 to 1849. On his death in 1865 he left a bequest for the founding of a series of lectures in Slavonic studies, the first of which was given in 1870.List of lecturers since 1870
- 1870: W. R. Morfill
- 1874: William Ralston Shedden Ralston, published as Early Russian History
- 1876: Vilhelm Thomsen, published as The Relations Between Ancient Russia and Scandinavia, and the Origin of the Russian State
- 1877: Albert Henry Wratislaw, published as The Native Literature of Bohemia in the Fourteenth Century
- 1883: Carl Abel, published as Slavic and Latin. Ilchester Lectures on comparative lexicography
- 1884: Arthur Evans, six lectures on the Slavonic conquest of Illyricum
- 1886: Moses Gaster, published as Ilchester Lectures on Greeko-Slavonic literature
- 1889–1890: Maxime Kovalevsky, published as Modern Customs and Ancient Laws of Russia: Being the Ilchester Lectures for 1889-1890
- 1900: Fedor Zigel, published as Lectures on Slavonic law: being the Ilchester lectures for the year 1900
- 1904: Count Lützow, published as Lectures on the Historians of Bohemia: Being the Ilchester Lectures for the Year 1904
- 1923: Roman Dyboski, published as Periods of Polish literary history, being the Ilchester lectures for the year 1923
- 1937: David Talbot Rice, published as ''The Beginnings of Russian Icon Painting''