The Chichele Professorships are statutory professorships at the University of Oxford named in honour of Henry Chichele (also spelt Chicheley or Checheley, although the spelling of the academic position is consistently "Chichele"), an Archbishop of Canterbury and founder of All Souls College, Oxford . Fellowship of that college has accompanied the award of a Chichele chair since 1870.
6-507: Following the work of the 1850 Commission to examine the organization of the university, All Souls College suppressed ten of its fellowships to create the funds to establish the first two Chichele professorships: The Chichele Professor of International Law and Diplomacy, established in 1859 and first held by Mountague Bernard , and the Chichele Professor of Modern History, first held by Montagu Burrows . The military history chair
12-515: The university of Oxford commission of 1876 he was mainly responsible for bringing about the compromise ultimately adopted between the university and the colleges. Bernard's reputation as an international lawyer was widespread, and he was an original member of the Institut de Droit International (1873). His published works include A Historical Account of the Neutrality of Great Britain during
18-521: Was elected Vinerian scholar and fellow, and having read in chambers with Roundell Palmer (afterwards Lord Selborne), was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1846. He was specially interested in legal history and in church questions, and was one of the founders of the Guardian . In 1852 he was elected the newly established post of Chichele Professor of International Law and Diplomacy at Oxford, attached to All Souls' College , of which he afterwards
24-483: Was made a fellow. But besides his duties at Oxford he undertook a good deal of non-collegiate work; he was a member of several royal commissions; in 1871 he went as one of the high commissioners to the United States , and signed the treaty of Washington , and in 1872 he assisted Sir Roundell Palmer before the tribunal of arbitration at Geneva . In 1874 he resigned his professorship at Oxford, but as member of
30-563: Was originally established in 1909 as the Chichele Professorship of Military History. In 1923, the History Faculty Board first recommended that the name of the chair be changed to the history of war, but this recommendation was not implemented until 1946. There are currently Chichele Professorships in five different subjects: The Chair was vacant from 1939 to 1943 and suspended between 1943 and 1946, when it
36-423: Was renamed from of Military History Mountague Bernard Mountague Bernard (28 January 1820 – 1882) was an English international lawyer . He was the third son of Charles Bernard of Jamaica , the descendant of a Huguenot family, and was born at Tibberton Court, Gloucestershire . He was educated at Sherborne School , and Trinity College, Oxford . Graduating BA in 1842, he took his BCL ,
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