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Articles Thus, the College’s connections with the North of England are still strong, at least in its capacity as a landowner. And though the Northern character of College membership is not as characteristic as it once was, we are renewing these links through the College’s access and outreach programme where we work with schools in Cumbria, Lancashire, Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen, to identify talented young people and encourage them to come and join us in Oxford. Though we no longer identify them by lot! Deed of Robert de Eglesfield, by which he gives to the College his estate in Renwick and part of the main College site in Oxford. 96 The Queen’s College | College Record 2022
Credit: John Cairns The Sedleian Professors of Natural Philosophy and Queen’s Dr Christopher Hollings, Clifford Norton Senior Research Fellow in the History of Mathematics The Sedleian Professorship of Natural Philosophy is one of Oxford’s oldest Chairs. It was founded in 1619 thanks to a bequest to the University from the barrister and Kentish landowner Sir William Sedley (c.1558–1618). Like the other professorships that were founded around this time (most notably, the Savilian Professorships of Geometry and Astronomy), the purpose of the Sedleian Chair was to provide centrally-organized lectures in an advanced subject that was not usually covered by college teaching: in this case, nature and the physical world. The early statutes required the professor to lecture specifically on Aristotle’s Physics. Articles Starting with the first Sedleian Professor, Edward Lapworth (1574–1636), the early incumbents of the Chair were all physicians, who devoted the greater part of their time to private medical practice, and have left little trace of their teaching activities. The notable exception is Thomas Willis (1621–1675). An important figure in the development of the understanding of the brain and nervous system, Willis ignored the requirement to teach Aristotle, and instead lectured on his own specialism. With the turn of the eighteenth century, the Sedleian Chair became more sinecure than actively occupied post. The first new professor of that century, James Fayrer (c.1655–1719), was even accused of having rigged his election. Some natural philosophy was taught by the Savilian Professors during this period, but the Sedleians are barely visible in University records. Among them was Joseph Browne (1700–1767), who was Provost of Queen’s from 1756. Like the other eighteenthcentury Sedleians, however, he had no obvious credentials in natural philosophy. The election of the astronomer Thomas Hornsby (1733–1810) to the Sedleian Chair in 1782 gave the post its first scientifically active occupant for almost a century. Hornsby was a pluralist who also held the Savilian Professorship of Astronomy, among other positions. He oversaw the establishment of the Radcliffe Observatory in the final decades of the century. During the years that sinecurists held the Sedleian Chair, the teaching of natural philosophy in Oxford began to take a different turn in the hands of others. James Bradley (1692–1762), Hornsby’s predecessor in the astronomy chair, introduced the teaching of material from Newton’s Principia Mathematica, and by the beginning of the nineteenth century, ‘natural philosophy’ had become a much more Newtonian than Aristotelian subject, concerning the mathematical study of the physical universe. When Hornsby died in 1810, the duties set out for his successor were to lecture ‘in College Record 2022 | The Queen’s College 97
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