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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—R

Regius Professor

One who holds in an English university a professorship founded by Henry VIII. Each of the five Regius Professors of Cambridge receives a royally-endowed stipend of about 40. In the universities of Scotland they are appointed by the Crown. The present stipend is about 400 or 500.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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