Regius Professor of Physic

The Regius Professorship of Physic is one of the oldest and most prestigious of the professorships at the University of Cambridge, founded by Henry VIII in 1540.

Regius Professors of Physic

• John Blyth (1540)
• John Hatcher (1554)
• Henry Walker (1555)
• Thomas Lorkyn (1564)
• William Ward (1591)
• William Burton (1596)
• John Gostlyn (1623)
• John Collins (1625)
• Ralph Winterton (1635)
• Francis Glisson (1636)
• Robert Brady (1677)
• Christopher Green (1700)
• Russell Plumptre (1741)
• Isaac Pennington (1793)
• John Haviland (1817)
• Henry John Hayles Bond (1851)
• George Edward Paget (1872)
• Thomas Clifford Allbutt (1892)
• Humphry Davy Rolleston (1925)
• Walter Langdon Brown (1932)
• John Alfred Ryle (1935)
• Lionel Ernest Howard Whitby (1945)
• Joseph Stanley Mitchell (1957)
• William John Hughes Butterfield, Baron Butterfield (1975)
• David Keith Peters (1987)