Visiting Professors at Gresham College, Holborn, London, give free educational lectures to the general public. The college was founded for this purpose in 1596 / 7, when it appointed seven professors; this has since increased to eight and plus the Visiting Professors.
The first Visiting Professors were appointed in 2000.
| 1 | Baroness Warnock of Weeke | Rhetoric | 1 Sept 2000 |
| 2 | Abdullah Ibrahim | Music | 1 Sept 2000 |
| 3 | Dr Robin Wilson | History of Mathematics | 1 Sept 2001 |
| 4 | Professor Richard Langham Smith | Music | 1 Sept 2003 |
| 5 | Dr Allan Chapman | History of Science | 1 Sept 2003 |
| 6 | Dr Raj Persaud | Psychiatry | 1 Sept 2004 |
| 7 | Professor Richard J. Evans | History | 1 Sept 2008 |
| 8 | Professor Vernon Bogdanor | Political History | 1 Sept 2008 |
| 9 | Dr Glenn D. Wilson | Psychology | 1 Sept 2009 |
| 10 | Dr Simon Thurley | The Built Environment | 1 Sept 2009 |
| 11 | Tony Mann | Computing Mathematics | 1 Sept 2012 |
Famous quotes containing the words visiting and/or professor:
“I have no connections here; only gusty collisions,
rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse.
...
I am the Visiting Poet: a real unicorn,
a wind-up plush dodo, a wax museum of the Movement.
People want to push the buttons and see me glow.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
“Ceremony and ritual spring from our heart of hearts: those who govern us know it well, for they would sooner deny us bread than dare alter the observance of tradition.”
—F. Gonzalez-Crussi, Mexican professor of pathology, author. “On Embalming,” Notes of an Anatomist (1985)