The Disney Professorship of Archaeology, also known as the Disney Chair is a professorship in the University of Cambridge. It was endowed with a donation of £1,000 by John Disney in 1851, followed by a further £3,500 in a bequest at his death.

John Disney is unrelated to Walt Disney.

Incumbents of the Disney Professorship of Archaeology

• The Reverend John Marsden, 1851–1865
• Churchill Babington, 1865–1879
• Percy Gardner, 1879–1887
• The Reverend George Brown, 1887–1892
• Sir William Ridgeway, 1892–1926
• Sir Ellis Minns, 1926–1938
• Dorothy Garrod, 1938–1952
• Grahame Clark, 1952–1974
• Glyn Daniel, 1974–1981
• Colin Renfrew, 1981–2004
• Graeme Barker, 2004–

References

• Tilley, C.Y., 1989, Discourse and power: The genre of the Cambridge inaugural lecture. In Miller, D., Rowlands, M., and Tilley, C.Y. (Eds), Domination and Resistance. London: Routledge.

See also

• List of Professorships at the University of Cambridge

External links

• Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge

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