Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The Woodwardian Professor of Geology is a professorship at the University of Cambridge. It was founded by John Woodward in 1728. Woodward's will dictated that the professor would be elected by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Ely, the President of the Royal Society, the President of the Royal College of Physicians, the Member of Parliament for the University of Cambridge, and the University Senate. Incumbents of the Woodwardian Professorship of Geology Conyers Middleton, 1731 Charles Mason, 1734 John Michell, 1762 Samuel Ogden, 1764 Thomas Green, 1778 John Hailstone, 1788 Adam Sedgwick, 1818 Thomas McKenny Hughes, 1873 John Edward Marr, 1917 Owen Thomas Jones, 1930 William Bernard Robinson King, 1943 Oliver Meredith Boone Bulman, 1955 Harry Blackmore Whittington, 1966-1983 Ian Nicholas McCave, 1985 See also List of Professorships at the University of Cambridge This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.