The following have held the chair: • 1937–1942:
Charles William Previté-Orton • 1944–1946:
Zachary Nugent Brooke • 1947–1954:
David Knowles • 1955–1972:
Christopher Robert Cheney • 1972–1978:
Walter Ullmann • 1978–1988:
James Clarke Holt • 1988–1999:
Richard Barrie Dobson • 1999–2016:
Rosamond McKitterick • 2016–present:
John H. Arnold == References ==