William Holmes (academic)

William Holmes
Born(1689-04-05)5 April 1689
parish of St Swithin, City of London
Died4 April 1748(1748-04-04) (aged 58)
Resting placeChapel of St John's College, Oxford
NationalityBritish
EducationMerchant Taylors' School
Alma materSt John's College, Oxford
OccupationHistorian
TitleRegius Professor of Modern History
Term1736–1742
PredecessorDavid Gregory
SuccessorJoseph Spence

William Holmes D.D. (5 April 1689 – 4 April 1748) was an English academic, Vice-Chancellor[1][2] and Regius Professor of Modern History of the University of Oxford.[3] He was also Dean of Exeter between 1742 and 1748.[4]

  1. ^ "Previous Vice-Chancellors". University of Oxford, UK. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
  2. ^ "Vice-Chancellors from the year 1660". The Oxford University Calendar. University of Oxford. 1817. pp. 27–28. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
  3. ^ William Hunt, Holmes, William (1689–1748), rev. John D. Haigh, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
  4. ^ Ursula Radford (1955). "An Introduction to the Deans of Exeter". Report & Transactions of the Devonshire Association 87: 1–24.