The holders of the chair since its foundation are: • 1758–1766
Sir William Blackstone (lived from 1723–1780) • 1767–1777
Sir Robert Chambers (1737–1803) • 1777–1793
Richard Wooddeson (1745–1822) • 1793–1824
James Blackstone (1765–1831) (son of William Blackstone above) • 1824–1843
Philip Williams (1780–1843) • 1844–1880
John Robert Kenyon (1807–1880) • 1882–1909
Albert Venn Dicey (1835–1922) • 1909–1922
William Martin Geldart (1870–1922) • 1922–1944
William Searle Holdsworth (1871–1944) • 1944–1949
Geoffrey Chevalier Cheshire (1886–1978) • 1949–1964
Harold Greville Hanbury (1898–1993) • 1964–1979
Rupert (A.R.N.) Cross (1912–1980) • 1979–1996
Guenter Treitel (1928–2019) • 1997–2012
Andrew Ashworth (b. 1947) • 2013–2020
Hugh Collins (b. 1953) • 2020–present
Timothy Endicott (b. 1960) ==See also==