Drapers Professor of Agriculture

{{Short description|Named UK university chair}}

Drapers Professor of Agriculture was a professorship at the University of Cambridge. County councils in England petitioned the university to offer agricultural education in the 1880s, but it argued against doing so as it was deemed incompatible with an academic education.{{cite book|author=Robert Neild|title=The Financial History of Cambridge University|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1U0jSgzTYisC&pg=PA43|access-date=17 May 2013|date=1 June 2012|publisher=Thames River Press|isbn=978-0-85728-515-7|pages=43–44}}{{cite book|author=Paolo Palladino|title=Plants, Patients, and the Historians: On (re)membering in the Age Genetic Engineering|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RQZyrC7rKYUC&pg=PA44|access-date=17 May 2013|year=2003|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=978-0-8135-3238-7|pages=44–}} The colleges of the university were major landowners however and this led to the university accepting an endowment from the Worshipful Company of Drapers in 1899.{{cite book|title=The University of Cambridge: The modern university (1882-1939)', A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 3: The City and University of Cambridge (1959)|pages=266–306|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66634|access-date=17 May 2013}}

The following people held the post:

• Sir Thomas Hudson Middleton 1902-1907.{{cite book|author=University of Cambridge|title=Statutes and Ordinances of the University of Cambridge 2009|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JSi0S7aH320C&pg=PA854|access-date=4 December 2012|date=8 October 2009|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-13745-4|pages=854–}}
• Thomas Barlow Wood 1907-1929.{{cite journal|journal=Biochemical Journal|date=1930|volume=24|issue=1|pages=1–3|title=Obituary Notice - Thomas Barlow Wood (1869–1929)|author=E. J. Russell|doi=10.1042/bj0240001|pmc=1254346|pmid=16744330}}
• Sir Frank Engledow 1930-1957.{{Cite journal | last1 = Bell | first1 = G. D. H. | doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1986.0007 | title = Frank Leonard Engledow. 20 August 1890-3 July 1985 | journal = Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society | volume = 32 | pages = 188–219| year = 1986 | s2cid = 72428152 }}
• Sir Joseph Hutchinson 1957-1969.{{Cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/sir-joseph-burtt-hutchinson-19021988-cmg-scd-frs-drapers-professor-of-agriculture-19571969-fellow-139514|title = Sir Joseph Burtt Hutchinson (1902–1988), CMG, SCD, FRS, Drapers' Professor of Agriculture (1957–1969), Fellow | Art UK}}
• Sir James Beament 1969-1989.{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/sir-james-beament-528902.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130422041152/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/sir-james-beament-528902.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 22, 2013 |title=Obituaries - Sir James Beament |work=The Independent |date=2005-03-18 |access-date=2012-12-04}}