# List of fellows of the British Academy elected in the 1900s

The Fellowship of the British Academy consists of world-leading scholars and researchers in the humanities and social sciences. Fellows are elected each year in July at the Academy's annual general meeting.

## First fellows

The following fellows were appointed in the Charter of the Incorporation of the British Academy on 8 August 1902:
* The Right Honourable The Earl of Rosebery, KG, KT
* The Right Honourable The Viscount Dillon, President of the Society of Antiquaries
* The Right Honourable The Lord Reay, GCSI, GCIE, President of the Royal Asiatic Society
* The Right Honourable Arthur James Balfour, MP
* The Right Honourable John Morley, MP
* The Right Honourable James Bryce, MP
* The Right Honourable William Edward Hartpole Lecky, MP
* Sir William Reynell Anson, Baronet, MP, Warden of All Souls College, Oxford
* Sir Frederick Pollock, Baronet, Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence in the University of Oxford
* Sir Edward Maunde Thompson, KCB., Director and Principal Librarian, British Museum
* Sir Henry Churchill Maxwell-Lyte, KCB, Deputy-Keeper of the Public Records
* Sir Courtenay Peregrine Ilbert, KCSI, CIE
* Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb, MP, Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge
* David Binning Monro, Provost of Oriel College and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford
* Adolphus William Ward, Master of Peterhouse and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
* Edward Caird, Master of Balliol College, Oxford
* Henry Francis Pelham, President of Trinity College and Camden Professor of Ancient History in the University of Oxford
* John Rhys, Principal of Jesus College and Professor of Celtic in the University of Oxford
* The Reverend George Salmon, DD, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin
* John Bagnell Bury, Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Dublin
* Samuel Henry Butcher, Professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh
* Ingram Bywater, Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford
* Edward Byles Cowell, Professor of Sanskrit in the University of Cambridge
* The Reverend William Cunningham, DD
* Thomas William Rhys Davids, Professor of Pali in University College, London
* Albert Venn Dicey, KC, Vinerian Professor of English Law in the University of Oxford
* The Reverend Canon Samuel Rolles Driver, DD, Regius Professor of Hebrew in the University of Oxford
* Robinson Ellis, Corpus Professor of Latin in the University of Oxford
* Arthur John Evans, Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
* The Reverend Andrew Martin Fairbairn, DD, Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford
* The Reverend Robert Flint, DD, Professor of Divinity in the University of Edinburgh
* James George Frazer
* Israel Gollancz, University Lecturer in English in the University of Cambridge
* Thomas Hodgkin
* Shadworth Hollway Hodgson
* Thomas Erskine Holland, KC, Professor of International Law and Diplomacy in the University of Oxford
* Frederick William Maitland, Downing Professor of English Law in the University of Cambridge
* Alfred Marshall, Professor of Political Economy in the University of Cambridge
* The Reverend John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, Professor of Latin in the University of Cambridge
* James Augustus Henry Murray
* William Mitchell Ramsay, Professor of Humanity in the University of Aberdeen
* The Reverend Canon William Sanday, DD, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxford
* The Reverend Walter William Skeat, Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Cambridge
* Leslie Stephen
* Whitley Stokes CSI, CIE
* Rev Henry Barclay Swete, DD, Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge
* Rev. Henry Fanshawe Tozer
* Robert Yelverton Tyrrell, Professor of Ancient History in the University of Dublin
* James Ward, Professor of Mental Philosophy in the University of Cambridge

## 1903

The following were elected fellows in March 1903:
* Professor B. Bosanquet
* Professor E. G. Browne
* Arthur Cohen, KC
* F. C. Conybeare
* F. Y. Edgeworth
* C. H. Firth
* A. Campbell Fraser
* Sir Edward Fry
* Dr F. J. Furnivall
* Professor P. Gardner
* Dr Henry Jackson
* Dr M. R. James
* Dr F. G. Kenyon
* Professor W. P. Ker
* The Lord Lindley
* Sir A. Lyall, KCB, GCIE
* Professor W. R. Morfill
* Dr A. S. Murray
* Professor J. S. Nicholson
* Dr G. W. Prothero
* Very Rev. J. Armitage Robinson, DD
* Professor G. F. Stout

## 1904

The following were elected fellows in June 1904:
* Rev. Professor T. K. Cheyne, DD
* F. J. Haverfield
* Professor Henry Jones
* Professor A. S. Napier
* Professor A. Seth Pringle Pattison
* Dr John Peile
* Professor W. M. Flinders Petrie
* Dr R. L. Poole
* Professor W. Ridgeway
* Sir G. O. Trevelyan, Baronet
* Sir Spencer Walpole, KCB
* Professor Joseph Wright

## 1905

* Professor F. C. Burkitt
* Professor H. S. Foxwell
* Professor W. M. Lindsay
* Sir Charles W. C. Oman, KBE, MP
* Professor W. R. Sorley
* Edward Armstrong
* Lord Davey
* Lord Goschen
* Professor B. P. Grenfell
* Dr D. G. Hogarth, CMG
* Sir Paul Vinogradoff
* John Wordsworth

## 1906

* Sir G. F. Warner
* Ven. Archdeacon Charles
* Dr W. J. Courthope, CB
* Professor J. FitzMaurice-Kelly
* Andrew Lang
* Professor A. A. MacDonell
* Dr J. Ellis McTaggart
* Rev. Canon Moore

## 1907

* H. A. L. Fisher
* Dr Henry Bradley
* Professor J. P. Postgate
* Professor J. Cook Wilson

## 1908

* Marquess Curzon of Keddleston, KG

## 1909

* Professor Hume Brown
* Lord Justice Kennedy
* Professor C. S. Kenny
* Very Rev. Hastings Rashdall
* Sir John E. Sandys
* Professor Cuthbert H. Turner