Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature
The Regius Chair of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh was established in 1762. It is arguably the first professorship of English Literature established anywhere in the world. Its first holder was Professor Hugh Blair.
List of Regius Professors of Rhetoric and English Literature
- Hugh Blair
- William Greenfield
- Hugh Blair
- Andrew Brown
- George Moir
- William Spalding
- William Edmonstoune Aytoun
- David Mather Masson
- George Saintsbury
- Herbert John Clifford Grierson
- John Dover Wilson
- William Lindsay Renwick
- John Everett Butt
- Harold Jenkins
- Alastair David Shaw Fowler
- Vacant
- Charles Ian Edward Donaldson
- John Anthony Frow
- Vacant
- Laura Marcus
- Greg Walker ; incumbent