The chair of the Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge was founded by the university in 1724. In 2009 the chair was renamed the Regius Professor of Botany.^[1]

Professors of Botany

• Richard Bradley (1724)
• John Martyn (1733)
• Thomas Martyn (1762)
• John Stevens Henslow (1825)
• Cardale Babington (1861)
• Harry Marshall Ward (1895)
• Albert Seward (1906)
• Frederick Tom Brooks (1936)
• George Edward Briggs (1948)
• Harry Godwin (1960)
• Percy Wragg Brian (1968)
• Richard Gilbert West (1977)
• Thomas ap Rees (1991)
• Roger Allen Leigh (1998)
• Sir David Baulcombe (2007)

Regius Professors

• Sir David Baulcombe (2009)
• Dame Ottoline Leyser (2020)