The Fellowship of the British Academy consists of world-leading scholars and researchers in the humanities and social sciences. Fellows are elected each year in July at the Academy's annual general meeting.[1]
First fellows
The following fellows were appointed in the Charter of the Incorporation of the British Academy on 8 August 1902:[2]
- The Right Honourable The Earl of Rosebery, KG, KT
- The Right Honourable The Viscount Dillon, President of the Society of Antiquaries
- The Right Honourable The Lord Reay, GCSI, GCIE, President of the Royal Asiatic Society
- The Right Honourable Arthur James Balfour, MP
- The Right Honourable John Morley, MP
- The Right Honourable James Bryce, MP
- The Right Honourable William Edward Hartpole Lecky, MP
- Sir William Reynell Anson, Baronet, MP, Warden of All Souls College, Oxford
- Sir Frederick Pollock, Baronet, Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence in the University of Oxford
- Sir Edward Maunde Thompson, KCB., Director and Principal Librarian, British Museum
- Sir Henry Churchill Maxwell-Lyte, KCB, Deputy-Keeper of the Public Records
- Sir Courtenay Peregrine Ilbert, KCSI, CIE
- Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb, MP, Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge
- David Binning Monro, Provost of Oriel College and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford
- Adolphus William Ward, Master of Peterhouse and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
- Edward Caird, Master of Balliol College, Oxford
- Henry Francis Pelham, President of Trinity College and Camden Professor of Ancient History in the University of Oxford
- John Rhys, Principal of Jesus College and Professor of Celtic in the University of Oxford
- The Reverend George Salmon, DD, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin
- John Bagnell Bury, Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Dublin
- Samuel Henry Butcher, Professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh
- Ingram Bywater, Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford
- Edward Byles Cowell, Professor of Sanskrit in the University of Cambridge
- The Reverend William Cunningham, DD
- Thomas William Rhys Davids, Professor of Pali in University College, London
- Albert Venn Dicey, KC, Vinerian Professor of English Law in the University of Oxford
- The Reverend Canon Samuel Rolles Driver, DD, Regius Professor of Hebrew in the University of Oxford
- Robinson Ellis, Corpus Professor of Latin in the University of Oxford
- Arthur John Evans, Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
- The Reverend Andrew Martin Fairbairn, DD, Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford
- The Reverend Robert Flint, DD, Professor of Divinity in the University of Edinburgh
- James George Frazer
- Israel Gollancz, University Lecturer in English in the University of Cambridge
- Thomas Hodgkin
- Shadworth Hollway Hodgson
- Thomas Erskine Holland, KC, Professor of International Law and Diplomacy in the University of Oxford
- Frederick William Maitland, Downing Professor of English Law in the University of Cambridge
- Alfred Marshall, Professor of Political Economy in the University of Cambridge
- The Reverend John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, Professor of Latin in the University of Cambridge
- James Augustus Henry Murray
- William Mitchell Ramsay, Professor of Humanity in the University of Aberdeen
- The Reverend Canon William Sanday, DD, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxford
- The Reverend Walter William Skeat, Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Cambridge
- Leslie Stephen
- Whitley Stokes CSI, CIE
- Rev Henry Barclay Swete, DD, Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge
- Rev. Henry Fanshawe Tozer
- Robert Yelverton Tyrrell, Professor of Ancient History in the University of Dublin
- James Ward, Professor of Mental Philosophy in the University of Cambridge
1903
The following were elected fellows in March 1903:[3]
1904
The following were elected fellows in June 1904:[4]
Unless stated otherwise, the names are from the list of fellows, alive and dead, in Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. xviii (1932), pp. vii–x.
Citations
- ^ "About the British Academy". British Academy. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ^ "Charter of the British Academy", British Academy. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
- ^ "List of Fellows, 1904" and "Deceased Fellows", Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. 1 (1904).
- ^ "List of Fellows, 1904" and "Deceased Fellows", Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. 1 (1904).