Drapers Professor of French
The Drapers Professorship of French is a professorship in the study of the French language at the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1919 by a donation from the Worshipful Company of Drapers, and was the first chair in French established at Cambridge.
Its establishment was part of the growth of the study of modern European languages such as French, German, and Italian in the early 19th century.{{citation|title=A History of the University of Cambridge: 1870-1990|first=Christopher N. L.|last=Brooke|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1993|page=433|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=55v1Mxat9YEC&pg=PA433|isbn=9780521343503}}
The Drapers Company initially guaranteed to fund the chair at £800 per year for ten years; the grant was renewed in 1939.{{citation|url=http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/acad/lists/P.html|title=Professors|publisher=Cambridge University|accessdate=2 February 2019}}
Drapers Professors
- Oliver Herbert Phelps Prior (1919){{citation|url=https://www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/files/documents/mml_newsletter_2014.pdf|magazine=Newsletter of the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages|title=80-year-old OPS officially revived|page=2|publisher=Cambridge University|date=Summer 2014}}
- Frederick Charles Green (1934)
- Lewis Charles Harmer (1951){{citation|author=T.G.S.C.|doi=10.1093/fs/xxix.3.373|issue=3|journal=French Studies|pages=373–374|title=Lewis Charles Harmer (1902–1975)|volume=XXIX|year=1975}}
- Lloyd James Austin (1967–1980){{citation|last1=Hunter|first1=Richard|last2=Parsons|first2=Peter|journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy|pages=3–12|title=Colin François Lloyd Austin 1941–2010|url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications/colin-fran%C3%A7ois-lloyd-austin-1941-2010|volume=XIV|year=2015}}
- Peter Rickard (1980–1982){{citation|last1=Sampson|first1=Rodney|last2=Ayres-Bennett|first2=Wendy|isbn=9789042015807|page=xii|publisher=Rodopi|series=Faux titre : études de langue et littérature françaises|title=Interpreting the History of French: A Festschrift for Peter Rickard on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vL7zU7BK2PUC&pg=PR12|volume=226|year=2002}}
- Terence Cave (elected but did not take the chair, 1985)
- Peter James Bayley (1985){{citation|date=August 2018|doi=10.1093/fs/kny221|issue=4|journal=French Studies|pages=649–651|title=Peter Bayley (1944–2018)|volume=72}}
- Michael Moriarty (2011){{citation|url=https://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2010-11/weekly/6218/section2.shtml|title=Elections|newspaper=Cambridge University Reporter|volume=CXLI|issue=22|date=16 March 2011}}
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