The chair of the Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge was founded by the university in 1724. In 2009 the chair was renamed the Regius Professor of Botany.[1]
Professors of Botany
- Richard Bradley (1724)
 - John Martyn (1733)
 - Thomas Martyn (1762)
 - John Stevens Henslow (1825)
 - Cardale Babington (1861)
 - Harry Marshall Ward (1895)
 - Albert Seward (1906)
 - Frederick Tom Brooks (1936)
 - George Edward Briggs (1948)
 - Harry Godwin (1960)
 - Percy Wragg Brian (1968)
 - Richard Gilbert West (1977)
 - Thomas ap Rees (1991)
 - Roger Allen Leigh (1998)
 - Sir David Baulcombe (2007)
 
Regius Professors
- Sir David Baulcombe (2009)
 - Dame Ottoline Leyser (2020)
 
References
- ↑ "A new Regius Professor for the University". 2009-11-24.
 
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