Savilian Professor of Astronomy
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The Savilian Chair of Astronomy at the University of Oxford in England was founded in 1619 and is named after Sir Henry Savile. The Professor is a Fellow of New College.
- 1619 John Bainbridge
- 1643 John Greaves
- 1649 Seth Ward
- 1661 Christopher Wren
- 1673 Edward Bernard
- 1691 David Gregory
- 1708 John Caswell
- 1712 John Keill
- 1721 James Bradley
- 1763 Thomas Hornsby
- 1810 Abraham Robertson
- 1827 Stephen Peter Rigaud
- 1839 George Henry Sacheverell Johnson
- 1842 William Fishburn Donkin
- 1870 Charles Pritchard
- 1893 Herbert Hall Turner
- 1932 Harry Hemley Plaskett
- 1960 Donald Eustace Blackwell
- 1988 George Petros Efstathiou
- 1999 Joseph Ivor Silk
