The King Edward VII Professorship of English Literature is one of the senior professorships in literature at the University of Cambridge, and was founded by a donation from Sir Harold Harmsworth in 1910 in memory of King Edward VII who had died earlier that year.
King Edward VII Professors
- Arthur Woollgar Verrall (1911)
- Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1912–1944)
- Basil Willey (1946)
- Lionel Charles Knights (1965)
- John Frank Kermode (1974)
- Christopher Bruce Ricks (1982)
- Marilyn Butler (1986)
- Gillian Patricia Kempster Beer (1994)