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Professor

Great Britain · Humanities / Social Science. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records
1805–1895Date range
2Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1805

Thomas Robert Malthus1805

Haileybury · Humanities / Social Science

Becomes Britains first professor in political economy at the East India Company College at Haileybury in Hertfordshire

1895

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton Acton, 1st1895

Humanities / Social Science

Appointed Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University

Names involved

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton Acton, 1stThomas Robert Malthus

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