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The 'Sir Robert Rede's Lecturer' is an annual appointment to give a public lecture, the 'Sir Robert Rede's Lecture' (usually 'Rede Lecture') at the University of Cambridge.^[1] It is named for Sir Robert Rede, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in the sixteenth century.

Contents

Initial series

1858-1899

1900-1949

1950-1999

Notes

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Initial series

★ 1683 John Naylor

★ 1728 William Neville

★ 1748 John Neville

★ 1750 Richard Newbon

★ 1790 Martin Joseph Naylor

1858-1899

★ 1859 Richard Owen ''On the classifaction and geographical distribution of the Mammalia''

★ 1860 John Phillips ''Life on the earth, its origin and succession''

★ 1861 Robert Willis ''The social and architectural history of Trinity College''

★ 1862 Edward Sabine ''The cosmical features of terrestrial magnetism''

★ 1863 David Thomas Ansted ''The correlation of the natural history sciences''

★ 1864 George Biddell Airy ''The late observations of total eclipses of the sun, and the inferences from them''

★ 1865 John Tyndall ''On Radiation''

★ 1866 William Thomson ''The dissipation of energy''

★ 1867 John Ruskin ''The relation of national ethics to national art''

★ 1868 Friedrich Max Müller ''On the stratification of language''

★ 1869 William Huggins ''On the results of spectrum analysis of the heavenly bodies''

★ 1870 William Allen Miller ''On some chemical processes of forming organic compounds, with illustrations from the coal tar colours''

★ 1871 Joseph Norman Lockyer ''Recent solar discoveries''

★ 1872 Edward Augustus Freeman ''The Unity of History''

★ 1873 Peter Guthrie Tait ''Thermo-electricity''

★ 1874 Samuel White Baker ''Slavery''

★ 1875 Henry James Sumner Maine ''The effects of observation of India upon modern European thought''

★ 1876 Samuel Birch ''The monumental history of ancient Egypt''

★ 1877 Charles Wyville Thomson ''On some of the results of the expedition of H.M.S. Challenger''

★ 1878 James Clerk Maxwell ''On the telephone''

★ 1879 William Henry Dallinger 'The origin of life, illustrated by the life histories of the least and lowest organisms in nature'

★ 1880 George Murray Humphry 'Man, prehistoric, present, future'

★ 1881 William Muir ''The early Caliphate''

★ 1882 Matthew Arnold ''Literature and Science''

★ 1883 Thomas Henry Huxley 'The origin of the existing forms of animal life: construction or evolution?''[2]

★ 1884 Francis Galton ''The Measurement of Human Faculty''

★ 1885 George John Romanes ''Mind and motion''

★ 1886 John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury ''On the forms of seedlings and the causes to which they are due''

★ 1887 John Robert Seeley ''Greater Britain in the Georgian and in the Victorian era''

★ 1888 William Muir ''The Early Caliphate and Rise of Islam''

★ 1889 George Gabriel Stokes ''On some effects of the action of light on ponderable matter''

★ 1890 Richard Claverhouse Jebb ''Erasmus''

★ 1891 Alfred Comyn Lyall ''Natural religion in India''

★ 1892 Thomas George Bonney ''The microscope's contributions to the earth's physical history''

★ 1893 Michael Foster ''Weariness''

★ 1894 John Willis Clark ''Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods''

★ 1895 Mandell Creighton ''The Early Renaissance in England''

★ 1896 Joseph John Thomson ''Röntgen rays''

★ 1897 Arthur William Rücker ''Recent researches on terrestrial magnetism''

★ 1898 Henry Irving ''The theatre in its relation to the state''

★ 1899 Marie Alfred Cornu ''La théorie des ondes lumineuses: son influence sur la physique moderne''

1900-1949

★ 1900 Frederic Harrison ''Byzantine history in the early middle age''

★ 1901 Frederic William Maitland ''English Law and the Renaissance''

★ 1902 Osborne Reynolds ''On an inversion of ideas as to the structure of the Universe''

★ 1903 George Walter Prothero ''Napoleon III and the Second Empire''

★ 1904 James Alfred Ewing ''The structure of metals''

★ 1905 Francis Edward Younghusband ''Our true relationship with India''

★ 1906 William Mitchell Ramsey ''The wars between Moslem and Christian for the possession of Asia Minor''

★ 1907 Aston Webb ''The art of achitecture, and the training required to practise it''

★ 1908 Ernest Mason Satow ''An Austrian diplomatist in the fifties''

★ 1909 Archibald Geikie ''Charles Darwin as Geologist''

★ 1910 Charles Harding Firth ''The parallel between the English and American Civil Wars''

★ 1911 Charles Algernon Parsons ''Steam turbines''

★ 1912 George Gilbert Aimé Murray ''The chorus in Greek tragedy''

★ 1913 George Nathaniel Curzon ''Modern Parliamentary Eloquence''

★ 1914 Norman Moore ''St Bartholomew's Hospital in peace and war''

★ 1915 Frederic George Kenyon ''Ideals and characteristics of English culture''

★ 1916 George Forrest Browne ''The ancient cross-shafts of Bewcastle and Ruthwell''

★ 1917 Richard Tetley Glazebrook ''Science and industry''

★ 1918 Louis Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven ''The Royal Navy, 1815-1915''

★ 1919 Lord Moulton, ''Science and War''

★ 1920 James Scorgie Meston, 1st Baron Meston ''India at the crossways''

★ 1921 William Napier Shaw ''The air and its ways''

★ 1922 William Ralph Inge ''The Victorian Age''

★ 1923 Hendrick Antoon Lorentz ''Clerk Maxwell's electromagnetic theory''

★ 1924 Herbert Hensley Henson ''Byron''

★ 1925 Hugh Walpole ''Some notes on the evolution of the English novel''

★ 1926 Arthur Mayger Hind ''Claude Lorrain and modern art''

★ 1927 Josiah Stamp ''On stimulus in the economic life''

★ 1928 Michael Ernest Sadler ''Thomas Day: an English disciple of Rousseau''

★ 1929 John Buchan ''The Causal and the Casual in History''

★ 1930 James Hopwood Jeans ''The mysterious universe''

★ 1931 George Stuart Gordon ''Robert Bridges''^[2]

★ 1932 Edgar Allison Peers ''St. John of the Cross''

★ 1933 Charles Scott Sherrington ''Brain and its mechanism''

★ 1934 Hugh Pattison Macmillan ''Two ways of thinking''

★ 1935 Daniel Hall ''The pace of progress''

★ 1936 Cedric Webster Hardwicke ''The drama to-morrow''

★ 1937 Harold George Nicolson ''The Meaning Of Prestige''

★ 1938 Patrick Playfair Laidlaw ''Virus diseases and viruses''

★ 1939 Edward Mellanby ''Some social and economic implications of the recent advances in medical science''

★ 1940 Augustus Moore Daniel ''Some approaches to judgment in painting''

★ 1941 E. M. Forster ''Virginia Woolf''

★ 1942 Archibald MacLeish ''American opinion of the war''

★ 1943 Max Beerbohm ''Lytton Strachey's writings''

★ 1944 Richard Livingstone ''Plato and modern education''

★ 1945 Norman Birkett ''National Parks and the countryside''

★ 1946 Edward Victor Appleton ''Terrestrial magnetism and the ionosphere''

★ 1947 Hubert Douglas Henderson ''The uses and abuses of economic planning''

★ 1948 Walter Hamilton Moberly ''Universities and the state''

★ 1949 Ernest William Barnes ''Religion and turmoil''

1950-1999

★ 1950 Edward Bridges ''Portrait of a Profession''

★ 1951 Cecil Maurice Bowra ''Inspiration and poetry''

★ 1952 Walter Russell Brain ''The Contribution of Medicine to our Idea of the Mind''

★ 1953 Arthur Duncan Gardner ''The proper study of mankind''

★ 1954 Charles Alfred Coulson ''Science and religion: a changing relationship''

★ 1955 Lord David Cecil ''Walter Pater - the Scholar Artist''

★ 1956 John Betjeman ''The English Town in the Last Hundred Years''

★ 1957 Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer ''Matthew Prior''

★ 1958 Charles Galton Darwin ''The problems of world population''

★ 1959 C. P. Snow ''The Two Cultures''

★ 1960 Edgar Wind ''Classicism''

★ 1961 Lord Radcliffe ''Censors''

★ 1962 Robert Hall ''Planning''

★ 1963 Douglas William Logan The Years of Challenge

★ 1964 Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson ''The oldest Irish tradition - a window on the early Iron Age''

★ 1965 Gavin de Beer ''Genetics and prehistory''

★ 1966 Harold McCarter Taylor ''Why should we study the Anglo-Saxons?''

★ 1967 Kenneth Wheare ''The university in the news''

★ 1968 Patrick Arthur Devlin, Lord Devlin ''The House of Lords and the Naval Prize Bill 1911''

★ 1969 Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett ''The gap widens''

★ 1970 Kenneth Clark ''The artist grows old''

★ 1971 Herbert Butterfield ''The discontinuities between the generations in History: their effect on the transmission of political experience''

★ 1972 None

★ 1973 Kingsley Dunham ''Non-renewable resources - a dilemma''

★ 1974 Walker Laing Macdonald Perry ''Higher education for adults: where more means better''

★ 1975 Alfred Alistair Cooke ''The American in England: from Emerson to S. J. Perelman''

★ 1976 Rupert Cross ''The golden thread of English Criminal Law: the burden of proof''

★ 1977 Richard Southern ''The historical experience''

★ 1978 Margaret Gowing ''Reflections on Atomic Energy History''

★ 1979 H.R.H. the Prince Philip ''Philosophy, politics and administration''

★ 1980 Shirley Williams ''Technology, employment, and change''

★ 1981 Frederick Sydney Dainton ''British universities: purposes, problems, and pressures''

★ 1982 Fred Hoyle Facts and Dogmas in Cosmology and Elsewhere

★ 1983 David Towry Piper ''The increase of learning and other great objects''

★ 1984 Sir Clive Sinclair ''A time for change''

★ 1985 Brian Urquhart ''The United Nations and international law''

★ 1986 David Attenborough ''Islands''

★ 1987 Sir John Thompson ''A reconsideration of the ideas underlying the international system''

★ 1988 Roy Jenkins ''Lord Jenkins of Hillhead; 'An Oxford view of Cambridge' ''

★ 1989 Peter Alexander Ustinov ''Communication''

★ 1990 Anne, H.R.H. the Princess Royal ''Punishment''

★ 1991 Peter Swinnerton-Dyer ''Policy on Higher Education and Research''

★ 1993 L. M. Singhvi A Tale of Three Cities

★ 1994 Geoffrey Howe ''Nationalism and the Nation State''

★ 1996 Mary Robinson

★ 1997 Leon Brittan ''Globalisation vs. Sovereignty? The European Response''

★ 1998 Rosalyn Higgins ''International Law in a Changing Legal System''

Notes

1. See [1]. The series was put on its current footing in 1858.
2. Published as book in 1946

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