Romanes Lectures

Partial list of Romanes lectures and lecturers

• 1892 William Ewart Gladstone
• 1893 Evolution and Ethics] by Thomas Henry Huxley, see also Contemporary review of Huxley's lecture)
• 1894 The Effect of External Influences upon Development August Weismann
• 1896 Mandell Creighton
• 1897 Machiavelli by John Morley
• 1898 Types of Scenery and their Influence on Literature Archibald Geikie
• 1899 Humanism in education Richard Cleberhouse Jebb
• 1900 The Evolution of English Lexicography James Murray
• 1902 The Relations of the Advanced and the Backward Races of Mankind James Bryce
• 1903 Modern views on matter by Sir Oliver Lodge
• 1904 Montesquieu Sir Courtenay Ilbert.
• 1906 Sturla the Historian William Paton Ker
• 1907 Frontiers part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4 part 5 by Lord Curzon of Kedleston
• 1908 Questionings on Criticism and Beauty Arthur James Balfour
• 1909 Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon as statesman, historian and chancellor of the university Charles Harding Firth
• 1910 Biographical Analogies in History by Theodore Roosevelt (in the collection African and European Addresses)
• 1911 The progress of international law and arbitration Sir Henry Erle Richards
• 1912 Lord Chatham
• 1913 The imperial peace: an ideal in European history by Sir William Mitchell Ramsay
• 1918 Some Aspects of the Victorian Age Herbert Asquith
• 1920 Ideas of Progress William Ralph Inge
• 1921 Roland Roncevaux Joseph Bdier
• 1922 The theory of relativity and its influence on scientific thought by Arthur Stanley Eddington
• 1923 Ignorance John Burnet
• 1924 Shakespeare & spiritual life by John Masefield
• 1926 The Two-Party System in English Political History G.M. Trevelyan
• 1927 Museums and National Life Frederick George Kenyon
• 1928 Palaeontology and the Evolution of Man David Meredith Seares Watson
• 1930 Parliamentary Government and the Economic Problem Winston Spencer Churchill
• 1931 The Creation of Character in Literature John Galsworthy
• 1934 Form and content in English Painting William Rothenstein
• 1937 On Poetry in Drama Harley Granville-Barker
• 1938 Peace and Pacifism Robert Cecil
• 1942 Intellectual liberty and totalitarian claims Norman Hepburn Baynes
• 1943 Evolutionary Ethics Julian Huxley (50 years sfter his grandfather Thomas Huxley's lecture)
• 1946 The machinery of government Right Hon. Sir John Anderson
• 1947 Creative Man Viscount Samuel
• 1948 Forty years of flight Baron Brabazon
• 1948 Mountaineering Claud Schuster
• 1950 The development and future of nuclear energy John Cockcroft
• 1951 The science and art of government Lord Hankey
• 1952 Monarchy and the party system Lewis Bernstein Namier
• 1953 Crown and Commonwealth. Viscount Simon
• 1954 Moments of Vision Kenneth Clark
• 1955 The significance of the fine arts Sir Albert Edward Richardson
• 1956 John Fletcher Sir Thomas Beecham
• 1957 On English translation by Ronald Arbuthnot Knox
• 1958 The State and the Arts Edward Ettingdene Bridges
• 1959 From Precedent to Precedent Lord Denning
• 1960 Factors in mental evolution Edgar Douglas Adrian Adrian
• 1963 Mountstuart Elphinstone Cyril John Radcliffe
• 1963 Science and Literature Peter Medawar
• 1964 Man and Nature Harold Hatley
• 1965 The Disintegration of an Old Culture Lord Annan
• 1966 A case for humane learning Sir Maurice Bowra
• 1967 The Difficult Art of Autobiography Lord Butler
• 1968 Science and Literature Peter Medawar
• 1969 The impact of personality in politics Violet Bonham Carter
• 1971 Fathers and Children by Isiah Berlin
• 1972 Karl Popper
• 1974 Advice and Responsibility by Solly Zuckermann
• 1975 Art History and the Social Sciences. Ernst Gombrich
• 1976 The Fire and the Sun: Why Plato banished the artists Iris Murdoch
• 1979 The arts and the academies Hugh Casson
• 1980 Is political philosophy based on a mistake? Jo Grimond
• 1981 War in Our Time A.J.P. Taylor
• 1985 Animals and Man Miriam Rothschild
• 1986 Different Approaches to Foreign Policy Nicholas Henderson
• 1987 The Omnipresence of Walter Bagehot Norman St. John-Stevas
• 1988 The Lost Moments of History, Hugh Dacre
• 1990 The Distracted Public Saul Bellow
• 1992 Gladstone, Disraeli and Queen Victoria Robert Blake (Centenary Lecture)
• 1993 Hippolyte's club foot: the medical roots of realism in modern European literature Henry Harris
• 1996 The Chancellorship of Oxford: A Contemporary View with a Little History Roy Jenkins
• 1997 Realizing Human Rights:"Take hold of it boldly and duly..." by Mary Robinson
• 1998 Reason before identity by Amartya Kumar Sen
• 1999 (No title) Tony Blair
• 2000 At a Slight Angle to the Universe: The University in a Digitized, Commercialized Age by William G. Bowen
• 2001 The Perpetual Present. The Ideal of Art for All Neil MacGregor
• 2002 Personal Freedom and the Dilemma of Democracies Tom Bingham
• 2003 The great ideas of biology Paul Nurse

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