West Riding Professor of Music

The West Riding Professorship of Music was established as a named chair at the University of Leeds in 1949 and paid for, initially, by £5,000 annually from the West Riding County Council.[1] The first appointee was J. R. Denny, who took up the chair in 1950.[2]

  1. ^ A. N. Shimmin, The University of Leeds: The First Half-Century (University of Cambridge Press, 1954), p. 65.
  2. ^ "University News", The Times (London), 22 December 1949, p. 2.