By now he had become Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge and had been honored by the award of the Order of Merit.

Indeed, it is even surprising in the Canon of Christ Church and Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History, who fathered this most peculiar view, and in the brilliant Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge, who inherited it and is now its most eminent proponent.

Wiles is the son of Maurice Frank Wiles ( 1923 – 2005 ), the Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and Patricia Wiles ( née Mowll ).

* John Young ( Regius Professor ) ( 1514 – 1580 ), English Catholic clergyman and academic

In 1928 he returned to the University of Aberdeen as Regius Professor of Physiology, where he remained until his death in 1935.

The professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame Alvin Plantinga criticises it, and the Emiritus Regius Professor of Divinity Keith Ward suggests that materialism is rare amongst contemporary UK philosophers: " Looking around my philosopher colleagues in Britain, virtually all of whom I know at least from their published work, I would say that very few of them are materialists.

* Machiavelli and the Italian City on the BBC's In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg ; with Quentin Skinner, Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge ; Evelyn Welch, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London ; Lisa Jardine, Director of the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters at Queen Mary, University of London

Henri de Roy ( Henricus Regius, 1598 – 1679 ), Professor of Medicine at the University of Utrecht, was condemned by the Rector of the University, Gijsbert Voet ( Voetius ), for teaching Descartes's physics.

* Herbert Butterfield-Historian ; Master of Peterhouse ( 1955 – 1968 ), Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge ( 1959 – 1961 ), and Regius Professor of Modern History ( 1963 — 1968 )

In 1861, Edward transferred to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was tutored in history by Charles Kingsley, Regius Professor of Modern History.

Some outstanding mathematical and Orientalist works emerged at this time – notably, texts edited by Edward Pococke, the Regius Professor of Hebrew – but no university press on Laud's model was possible before the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660.

* Reg ( Professor Urban Chronotis, the Regius Professor of Chronology ), Richard's old college tutor, a fellow of St. Cedd's College, Cambridge with no apparent duties, who is " on the older side of completely indeterminate ".

* Richard Smyth ( theologian ) ( or Smith ), ( 1499 – 1563 ) English Catholic scholar, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford

in 1619, was admitted at Doctor's Commons in January 1618, and was appointed Regius Professor of Civil Law at Oxford in 1620.

Demant, Canon of Christ Church, Oxford and Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford ( an Anglo-Catholic )

In 1548 Vermigli was appointed Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford, in succession to Dr. Richard Smyth, and was incorporated D. D.

Pusey House was opened in 1884 in part as a memorial to Edward Bouverie Pusey, Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford University, Canon of Christ Church Cathedral and for 40 years, a leading figure in the Oxford Movement, a movement of the mid 19th century which sought to bring the Church of England to a deeper understanding of its witness as part of the universal Catholic Church.

), FBA ( Emeritus Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History, University of Oxford )

Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper ( 15 January 1914 – 27 January 2003 ) was an English historian of early modern Britain and Nazi Germany and Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford.

Bain was the inaugural Regius Chair in Logic and Professor of Logic at the University of Aberdeen, where he also held Professorships in Moral Philosophy and English Literature and was twice elected Lord Rector of the University of Aberdeen.

Osler is well known in the field of gerontology for the speech he gave when leaving Hopkins to become the Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford.

Bucer took the position of Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge.

In the same year, the English monarch established the Regius Professorship of Physic at the University of Cambridge.

* August 28 – Augustine dies during the siege of Hippo Regius at age 75, leaving behind his monumental work The City of God and other works that will have influence on Christianity.

* Synod of Hippo: A council at Hippo Regius ( Algeria ) is hosted by the Christian Church.

This date ties in with the survival of a copy of Titulus Regius in the text, and Russell is known to have been at Crowland during April, 1486.

The origins of the dispute went back to 1957 when the Regius Professorship for History at Oxford was vacant.

In 1860 he was appointed by the British Crown to the inaugural Regius Chair of Logic and the Regius Chair of English Literature at the University of Aberdeen, which was newly formed after the amalgamation of King's College, Aberdeen and Marischal College by the Scottish Universities Commission of 1858.

In June he entered a controversy when Peter Martyr, another refugee who had taken the equivalent Regius Professor position at Oxford University, debated with Catholic colleagues over the issue of the Lord's Supper.

In June 1553 he backed the Privy Council's invitation of Philip Melanchthon to become Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University.

In 1811, he was appointed Regius Professor of Greek in the University.

Notable former inhabitants of Coton include Andrew Downes, a famous scholar and Cambridge University Regius Professor of Greek in the late 16th century ; and Sir John Coke, Secretary of State under Charles I from 1625-1639.

* Cuthbert Aikman Simpson-Dean of Christ Church and Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford University

John Nichol ( 8 September 1833 – 11 October 1894 ), was a Scottish literary academic, and the first Regius Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow.

Born in Montrose, Scotland, Nichol was the son of John Pringle Nichol, Regius Professor of Astronomy at the University of Glasgow.

of Edinburgh, and Ph. D. of Göttingen, and honorary student of Christ Church, Oxford ; and in 1894 he declined the appointment of Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, lest its duties should interfere with the accomplishment of his history.

In 1823 he became assistant to Robert Jameson, the Regius Professor of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh.

His former student Robert Jameson, who later became Regius Professor at the University of Edinburgh, founded the Wernerian Natural History Society in 1808 honour of Werner, which, while debating many aspects of natural history, was a bastion of the Wernerian view of the earth.

He was Regius Professor of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations at the University of Edinburgh from 1972 until 2008.

Following this, he was a Fellow and Tutor in Jurisprudence, Balliol College, Oxford 1968-1972, and thereafter held the Regius Chair of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations at Edinburgh University.

Professor MacCormick retired from the Regius Chair on 1 February 2008 after completing 36 years as Professor ( and later Senior Professor ) at Edinburgh University.

Regius Professorships are " royal " professorships at the ancient universities of the United Kingdom and Ireland-namely Oxford, Cambridge, St Andrews, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Dublin.

** Regius Professor of Astronomy, Edinburgh

In 1804, Jameson succeeded Dr Walker as the third Regius Professor of Natural History at Edinburgh University, a post which he held for fifty years.

Alastair Fowler, Regius Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, to whom Lewis served as a doctoral supervisor, wrote in 2003 that he saw portions of The Dark Tower including the Stinging Man and discussed them with Lewis in 1952.

The report was written by Anthony Busuttil ( Regius Professor of Forensic Medicine at the University of Edinburgh ), whose opinions caused the Findhorn Foundation to suspend its breathwork programme.

Balfour became a Professor of Botany, first at the University of Glasgow in 1841, moving to Edinburgh University and also becoming Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and Her Majesty's Botanist in Scotland in 1845.

* Robert Graham ( botanist ) ( 1786 – 1845 ), chair of botany at the University of Edinburgh and Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

Robert Blair was the first Regius Professor of Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh ( 1785 ).

The Edinburgh site is the main garden and the headquarters of the public body, which is led by Regius Keeper, Professor Stephen Blackmore.

From 1980 to 1990, he held the joint posts of Astronomer Royal for Scotland, Regius Professor of Astronomy of the University of Edinburgh and Director of the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh.

In the 20th-century, the eminent legal theorist Professor Sir Neil MacCormick wrote his seminal texts on legal philosophy as Regius Professor at Edinburgh.

Current members of Edinburgh Law School include current Regius Professor Neil Walker ; Professor of European Union Law Professor Niamh Nic Shuibhne ; the academic and novelist Professor Alexander McCall Smith ; former Judge at the European Court of First Instance Sir David Edward QC ; Scottish Law Commissioner Dr Andrew Steven ; former Scottish Law Commissioners Professor Hector MacQueen, Professor George Gretton, Professor Gerry Maher QC and Professor Kenneth Reid ; Emeritus Professor Robert Black QC ( architect of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial ); Emeritus Professor J. Kenyon Mason ; Honorary Fellow and Lord Lyon King of Arms David Sellar ; Visiting Professor Alan Watson ; and international lawyer Professor Alan Boyle.

This was now the post of Astronomer Royal for Scotland and Regius Professor of Astronomy in the University of Edinburgh.

The office was created in 1699, and from 1768 until 1956 it was combined with the office of Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, who also held the post of Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Edinburgh.