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Regius professor

Brit a person appointed by the Crown to a university chair founded by a royal patron
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By a nice irony--and there's considerable irony in Hesketh's compact and elegant study it was George Macaulay Trevelyan, great-nephew of Lord Macaulay, future Regius Professor and best-selling author, who got the better of his predecessor J.
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Two Regius professors at Cambridge and Oxford, Richard Evans and Robert Evans respectively, champion evidence-based research in ways that deny postmodernists this official stamp of success.
A world without end: Jonathan Clark, editor of a major new history of the British Isles, considers what effect the intellectual currents of our own time have had on the way historians write
It is the custom in the University of Oxford for incoming Regius Professors to give inaugural lectures after taking their professional chairs.
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Minister Chris Skidmore awarded the Royal Warrant to WMG at the University of Warwick, officially conferring her Majestys recognition with the title of the Regius Professor of Manufacturing (Engineering).
United Kingdom : Minister for the Constitution presents University of Warwick with Royal Warrant
The title of Regius Professor will be given to Professor Graham Hutchings, the director of the Cardiff Catalysis Institute in the School of Chemistry.
Special award for university
The title of Regius Professor has been held by notable academics such as Sir Hugh Trevor-Roper and Sir Joseph Lister and is said to be a mark of exceptionally high standards of research and teaching.
Rare royal honour for school of pharmacy
The title of Regius Professor will be given to Professor Graham Hutchings, director of the Cardiff Catalysis Institute (CCI) in the School of Chemistry.
Royal stamp of approval for chemistry researchers

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