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Not to be confused with [Lecturer](/source/Lecture).

[William Crowe](/source/William_Crowe_(poet)) (1745–1829), Public Orator at the [University of Oxford](/source/University_of_Oxford).

The **Public Orator** is a traditional official post at universities, especially in the [United Kingdom](/source/United_Kingdom). The holder of this office acts as the voice of the university on public occasions.[1]

The position at [Oxford University](/source/Oxford_University) dates from 1564.[2] The Public Orator at the university presents [honorary degrees](/source/Honorary_degree), giving an [oration](/source/Oration) for each person that is honoured. They may be required to compose addresses and letters as directed by the [Hebdomadal Council](/source/Hebdomadal_Council) of the university. Speeches when members of the royal family are present may also be required. The post was instituted for a visit to [Oxford](/source/Oxford) by [Queen Elizabeth I](/source/Elizabeth_I_of_England) in 1566. The Public Orator, [Thomas Kingsmill](/source/Thomas_Kingsmill_(professor)), gave a very long historical speech. Sir [Isaac Wake](/source/Isaac_Wake) addressed [King James I](/source/James_VI_and_I) similarly in 1605.

At the [University of Cambridge](/source/University_of_Cambridge), the title for the position changed from "Public Orator" to "Orator" in 1926.[3] [Trinity College Dublin](/source/Trinity_College_Dublin) in [Ireland](/source/Ireland) also has a Public Orator.[4] There is no equivalent position in [American](/source/United_States) universities.[5]

## List of Public Orators

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2012)

### England

#### Oxford University

See also [Category:Public Orators of the University of Oxford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Public_Orators_of_the_University_of_Oxford).

- [Roger Marbeck](/source/Roger_Marbeck) (1564–1565)[6]

- [Thomas Kingsmill](/source/Thomas_Kingsmill_(professor)) (1565–1569)[7]

- [Tobias Matthew](/source/Tobias_Matthew) (1569–1572)[8]

- [Arthur Atye](/source/Arthur_Atye) (1572–1582)[9]

- Thomas Smith (1582–1594)[10]

- Thomas Wenman (1594–1597)[11]

- Thomas Cole (1597–1601)[12]

- William James (1601–1604)[13]

- [Isaac Wake](/source/Isaac_Wake) (1604–1621)[14]

- [John King](/source/John_King_(canon_of_Westminster)) (1622–1625)[15]

- [Philip King](/source/Philip_King_(priest)) (1625–1629)[16]

- [William Strode](/source/William_Strode_(poet)) (1629–1645)[17]

- [Henry Hammond](/source/Henry_Hammond) (1645–1648)[18]

- [Edward Corbet](/source/Edward_Corbet) (1648)[19]

- [Ralph Button](/source/Ralph_Button) (1648–1660)[20]

- [Robert South](/source/Robert_South) (1660–1677)[21]

- Thomas Cradock (1677–1679)[22]

- William Wyatt (1679–1712)[23]

- Digby Cotes (1712-1746)[24]

- Thomas Lisle (1746–1749)[25]

- Roger Mather (1749–1760)[26]

- [Thomas Nowell](/source/Thomas_Nowell) (1760-1776)[27]

- [James Bandinel](/source/James_Bandinel_(scholar)) (1776–1784)[28]

- [William Crowe](/source/William_Crowe_(poet)) (1784–1829)

- [John Antony Cramer](/source/John_Cramer_(priest)) (1829–1842)[29]

- William Jacobson (1842–1848)[30]

- [Richard Michell](/source/Richard_Michell) (1849–1877)[31]

- Francis Thomas Dallin (1877–1880)[32]

- [William Walter Merry](/source/William_Walter_Merry) (1880–1910)

- [A.D. Godley](/source/A.D._Godley) (1910–1925)

- [Arthur Blackburne Poynton](/source/Arthur_Blackburne_Poynton) (1925–1932)

- [Cyril Bailey](/source/Cyril_Bailey) (1932–1939)

- [Thomas Farrant Higham](/source/Thomas_Farrant_Higham) (1939–1958)[33]

- A.N. Bryan-Brown (1958–1967)

- [Colin Hardie](/source/Colin_Hardie) (1967–1973)

- John G. Griffith (1973–1980)[34]

- Godfrey Bond (1980–1992)[35]

- [Jasper Griffin](/source/Jasper_Griffin) (1992–2004)

- [Richard Henry Austen Jenkyns](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Henry_Austen_Jenkyns&action=edit&redlink=1) (2004–2016)

- [Jonathan Katz](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jonathan_Katz_(classicist)&action=edit&redlink=1) (2016 to present)

#### Cambridge University

See also [Category:Cambridge University Orators](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cambridge_University_Orators).

- [Richard Croke](/source/Richard_Croke) (1522)[36]

- [George Day](/source/George_Day_(bishop)) (1528–1537)[37]

- [John Redman](/source/John_Redman_(Trinity_College)) (1537–1538)[38]

- Sir [Thomas Smith](/source/Thomas_Smith_(diplomat)) (1538–1542)[39]

- Sir [John Cheke](/source/John_Cheke) (1544)[40]

- [Roger Ascham](/source/Roger_Ascham) (1546–1554)[41]

- [Thomas Gardiner](/source/Thomas_Gardiner_(MP_for_Mitchell)) (1554–1557)[42]

- John Stokes (1557–1559)[43]

- George Ackworth (1559–1560)[44]

- Anthony Girlington (1560–1561)[45]

- William Masters (1563–1565)[46]

- [Thomas Byng](/source/Thomas_Byng) (1565–1570)[47]

- [William Lewin](/source/William_Lewin_(died_1598)) (1570–1571)[48]

- [John Becon](/source/John_Becon) (1571–1573)[49]

- Richard Bridgewater (1573–1581)[50]

- [Anthony Wingfield](/source/Anthony_Wingfield_(MP_for_Ripon)) (1580–1589)[51]

- Henry Mowtlow (1589–1594)[52]

- Sir [Robert Naunton](/source/Robert_Naunton) (1594–1611)[53]

- Sir [Francis Nethersole](/source/Francis_Nethersole) (1611–1619)[54]

- [George Herbert](/source/George_Herbert) (1619–1627)[55]

- [Robert Creighton](/source/Robert_Creighton_(1593%E2%80%931672)) (1627–1639)[56]

- Henry Molle (1639–1650)[57]

- [Ralph Widdrington](/source/Ralph_Widdrington_(academic)) (1650–1673)[58]

- [Henry Paman](/source/Henry_Paman) (1674–1681)[59]

- John Billers (1681–1688)[60]

- Henry Felton (1689–1696)[48]

- William Ayloffe (1696–1726)[61]

- [Edmund Castle](/source/Edmund_Castle) (1727–1730)[62]

- Philip Williams (1730–1741)[63]

- [James Tunstall](/source/James_Tunstall) (1741–1746)[48]

- [Philip Yonge](/source/Philip_Yonge) (1746–1752)[48]

- John Skynner (1752–1762)[64]

- [William Barford](/source/William_Barford) (1762–1768)[48]

- [Richard Beadon](/source/Richard_Beadon) (1768–1778)[48]

- [William Pearce](/source/William_Pearce_(priest)) (1778–1788)[48]

- [William Lort Mansel](/source/William_Lort_Mansel) (1788–1798)[65]

- [Edmund Outram](/source/Edmund_Outram) (1798–1809)[48]

- [Ralph Tatham](/source/Ralph_Tatham) (1809–1836)[48]

- [Christopher Wordsworth](/source/Christopher_Wordsworth) (February–April 1836)[66]

- [William Henry Bateson](/source/William_Henry_Bateson) (1848–1857)[67]

- [William George Clark](/source/William_George_Clark) (1857–1869)[68]

- Sir [Richard Claverhouse Jebb](/source/Richard_Claverhouse_Jebb) (1869–1875)[48]

- Sir [John Edwin Sandys](/source/John_Sandys_(classicist)) (1875–1920; orator emeritus from 1920)[48]

- [Terrot Reaveley Glover](/source/Terrot_R._Glover) (1920–1939)[48]

- [William Keith Chambers Guthrie](/source/W._K._C._Guthrie) (1939–1957)[48]

- [Lancelot Patrick Wilkinson](/source/Patrick_Wilkinson_(scholar)) (1958–1974)[48]

- Frank Henry Stubbings (1974–1982)[48]

- [James Diggle](/source/James_Diggle) (1982–1993)[48]

- Anthony Bowen (1993[48]–2007)[69]

- Rupert Thompson (2008[70] to present)

#### Liverpool University

- E T Campagnac (1927 to 1931)

- [Lyon Blease](/source/Lyon_Blease) (1931 to 1949)

- [Seaborne Davies](/source/Seaborne_Davies) (1950 to 1955)

- [F. W. Walbank](/source/F._W._Walbank) (1956 to 1960)

- [Kenneth Muir](/source/Kenneth_Muir_(scholar)) (1961 to 1965)

- [Roland Gregory Austin](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roland_Gregory_Austin&action=edit&redlink=1) (1965 to 1968)

- [Louis Rosenhead](/source/Louis_Rosenhead) (1969 to 1972)

- [Basil Smallman](/source/Basil_Smallman) (1972 to 1973)

- John M Meek (1973 to 1976)

- Reginald T Davies (1977 to 1980)

- [A. A. Long](/source/A._A._Long) (1981 to 1983)

- [John Pinsent](/source/John_Pinsent) (1983 to 1987)

- J Frederick Norbury (1987 to 1992)

- John E Utting (1992 to 1993)

- [John N Tarn](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_N_Tarn&action=edit&redlink=1) (1994 to 2002)

- C J Gaskell (2003 to 2015)

- Bruce Gibson (2015 to present)[71]

#### Durham University

- [Sir Ian Richmond](/source/Ian_Richmond) (1949 to 1951)

#### Birkbeck, University of London

- [Steven Connor](/source/Steven_Connor) (2001 to 2012)

- [Joanna Bourke](/source/Joanna_Bourke) (2012 to present)

### Ireland

#### Trinity College, Dublin

- [Caesar Williamson](/source/Caesar_Williamson) (1660)

- Thomas Ebenezer Webb (1879 to 1887)[72]

- [Arthur Palmer](/source/Arthur_Palmer_(scholar)) (1888 – no later than 1897)[73]

- [Robert Yelverton Tyrrell](/source/Robert_Yelverton_Tyrrell) (1899)

- [Louis Claude Purser](/source/Louis_Claude_Purser) (1904)

- [Sir Robert Tate](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sir_Robert_Tate&action=edit&redlink=1), (1914 to 1952)[74]

- [John V. Luce](/source/John_V._Luce), (1972 to 2005)

- [Brian McGing](/source/Brian_McGing), (2005 to 2008)

- [Anna Chahoud](/source/Anna_Chahoud), (2008 to present)

### Russia

#### [Lomonosov Moscow State University](/source/Moscow_State_University)

- [Alexei Solopov](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexei_Solopov&action=edit&redlink=1) [[ru](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B2)] (1994 to present)

## See also

- [Public speaking](/source/Public_speaking)

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