The Waynflete Professorships are four professorial fellowships at the University of Oxford endowed
by Magdalen College and named in honour of the college founder William of Waynflete,
who had a great interest in science. These professorships are statutory professorships
of the University, that is, they are professorships established in the university's regulations,
and which are by those regulations attached to Magdalen College in particular. The oldest
professorship is the Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy. The three science
professorships were created following the recommendation of the University Commission
in 1857, in recognition of William of Waynflete's lifetime support of science. The professorships
are the Waynflete Professor of Chemistry, the Waynflete Professor of Physiology, and
the Waynflete Professor of Pure Mathematics.
== Waynflete Professors of Metaphysical Philosophy ==
This Waynflete Professorship is one of five statutory professorships in philosophy at
the University of Oxford, the other four being the Wykeham Professorship in Logic, the White’s
Professorship of Moral Philosophy, the Wilde Professor of Mental Philosophy, as well as
the untitled professorship in Ancient Philosophy. Currently incomplete
1859–1867 Henry Longueville Mansel 1867–1889 Henry William Chandler
1889–1910 Thomas Case 1910–1936 John Alexander Smith
1936–1941 Robin G. Collingwood 1945–1967 Gilbert Ryle
1968–1987 P. F. Strawson 1989–2000 Christopher Peacocke
2003–2006 Dorothy Edgington 2006–2015 John Hawthorne
2016– Ofra Magidor
== Waynflete Professors of Chemistry ==
The four heads of the Dyson Perrins Laboratory were four consecutive Waynflete Professors
of Chemistry, from its foundation in 1916 as the University's research centre for organic
chemistry to its retirement in 2003.
1865–1872 Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 2nd Baronet
1872–1912 William Odling 1912–1930 William Henry Perkin, Jr., first
head of Dyson Perrins Laboratory; 1930–1954 Sir Robert Robinson
1954–1978 Ewart Jones 1978–2005 Sir Jack Baldwin, last head of
Dyson Perrins Laboratory; 2006– Stephen G. Davies, ex-Chairman of
Chemistry.
== Waynflete Professors of Physiology == 1882–1905 John Scott Burdon-Sanderson
1905–1913 Francis Gotch 1913–1935 Charles Scott Sherrington
1936–1939 John Mellanby 1940–1960 Edward George Tandy Liddell
1960–1967 George Lindor Brown 1968–1979 David Whitteridge
1979–2007 Colin Blakemore 2007– Gero Miesenböck
== Waynflete Professors of Pure Mathematics ==
1892–1921 Edwin Bailey Elliott 1922–1945 Arthur Lee Dixon
1947–1960 J. H. C. Whitehead 1960–1984 Graham Higman
1984–2006 Daniel Quillen 2007–2013 Raphaël Rouquier
2013– Ben Green
== Notes ==