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Natural Philosophy as grounded on Mathematical Principles, and particularly in the Principia […] of Sir Isaac Newton’. Thus, the Sedleian Chair passed into the hands of mathematicians, where it resides to this day. Articles The remainder of the nineteenth century saw just two Sedleian Professors, each of whom held the Chair for over 40 years. The first, George Leigh Cooke (1779– 1853), was an academic clergyman from a traditional mould, who placed greater Credit: John Cairns Credit: David Fisher Thomas Willis Credit: ODNB 98 The Queen’s College | College Record 2022
emphasis on his duties within the church than on his Oxford teaching. His successor, Bartholomew Price (1818–1898), on the other hand, was a committed and highly regarded teacher of mathematics, who became a prominent personality within the University, and, towards the end of his life, Master of Pembroke. The tenures of Cooke and Price in the Sedleian Chair straddled a period of reform within the University. Questions were being asked about the nature of the teaching at the English universities, and the place of scientific disciplines within this. Such subjects had little place in college teaching, and were often regarded as irrelevant by the traditionalists who saw the training of the clergy as the central purpose of the universities. Such high-level scientific instruction as did exist was provided centrally by the relevant professors, but their positions had in many cases become financially precarious, and their lectures often suffered from lack of attendance, owing to a mismatch between the stipulated teaching and the subjects that were actually examined. Articles Beginning in the 1850s, a series of government commissions investigated the (scientific) teaching provision at Oxford and Cambridge, and the financial situations of the colleges, with a view to forcing colleges to subsidize the central professoriate. Thus, it was that the Sedleian Chair of Natural Philosophy came to be associated permanently with Queen’s: from 1858, the College – apparently willingly – contributed a portion of the professor’s stipend. Until this point, the various professorships within the University had not been attached to particular colleges: they had always been internal appointments, given to people who already had college associations. To have moved college upon appointment to a chair would have been unthinkable – or even infeasible, in the cases of figures such as Hornsby who held more than one such post. But financial contributions to stipends created natural connections. Bartholomew Price, while remaining a Fellow of Pembroke, was elected to an Honorary Fellowship of Queen’s in 1868. And when Augustus Love (1863–1940), Price’s successor as Sedleian Professor, arrived from Cambridge in 1899 without any other Oxford association, it was natural for him to become a member of Queen’s. The Sedleian Professors have been Fellows of Queen’s ever since, complete with associated traditions: since the end of the 1950s, it has been the convention that only the Sedleian Professor or the Patroness of the College may operate the orrery in the Upper Library. In 1945, as part of post-war concern over the state of physics teaching in the UK, it was suggested that the Sedleian Chair might be realigned as a post in theoretical physics rather than applied mathematics, but the change was never made. One modification that was made to the Sedleian statutes around this time, however, was the removal of the requirement for the Professor to lecture – thus, what had begun as a post for teaching Aristotle completed its transformation into the highprofile research position that it is today. College Record 2022 | The Queen’s College 99
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