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The Disney Professorship of Archaeology is an endowed chair in archaeology at the University of Cambridge. It was endowed by English barrister and antiquarian John Disney in 1851 with a donation of £1,000. He arranged for a further £3,500 bequest upon his death in 1857.<!-- Apparently the Cllark reference says bequest was £2500. -->

Disney Professors have also served as the Directors of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, which was founded in 1990.

List of Disney Professors of Archaeology

  • 1851–1865 John Howard Marsden
  • 1865–1879 Churchill Babington
  • 1879–1887 Percy Gardner
  • 1887–1892 George Forrest Browne
  • 1892–1926 William Ridgeway
  • 1926–1938 Ellis Minns
  • 1939–1952 Dorothy Garrod
  • 1952–1974 Grahame Clark
  • 1974–1981 Glyn Daniel
  • 1981–2004 Colin Renfrew
  • 2004–2014 Graeme Barker
  • 2014– Cyprian Broodbank

See also

  • List of professorships at the University of Cambridge

References

Further reading

  • Tilley, C.Y., 1989, "Discourse and power: The genre of the Cambridge inaugural lecture." In Miller, D., Rowlands, M., and Tilley, C.Y. (Eds), Domination and Resistance. London: Routledge.
  • Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge