The Gladstone Professorship of Government is located at All Souls College at the University of Oxford. It was instituted in memory of William Ewart Gladstone. Initially the chair was described as the Gladstone Professorship of Political Theory and Institutions. In 1941 this was changed to Government and Public Administration.[1] More recently the title has changed to Professor of Government. The professorship has never been held by a woman. Its past holders have been:
^"Sir Kenneth Clinton Wheare (1907–1979)", Wheare, Sir Kenneth Clinton (1907–1979), National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 8 June 2012