English Literature

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The teaching of English literature at Edinburgh University began with the Creation of the Chair of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in 1760 . At over 250 years old, Edinburgh University has the longest established English Department in the world.

Professors of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres

1760-1784: Hugh Blair (1718-1800)
1784-1798: William Greenfield (1755-1827
1801-1834: Andrew Brown (1763-1834)
1835-1840: George Moir (1800-1870)
1840-1845: George Spalding (1809-1859
1845-1865: William Edmonstoune Aytoun (1813-1865)

Professors of Rhetoric and English Literature

1865-1895: David Mather Masson (1822-1907)

Alexander Bower, The History of the University of Edinburgh. 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1817-1830.
Sir Alexander Grant, The Story of the University of Edinburgh during its First Three Hundred Years, 2 vols (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1884)

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