page_title: Ford Lectures
section_title: History of the lectureship
hierarchical_section_title: Ford Lectures / History of the lectureship
caption_attribution_description: English: Digitaly processed file in Photoshop from a unprocessed source file, similar to the processed file in National Portrait Gallery (http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw162107/Samuel-Rawson-Gardiner). The file is an early photo of English historian Samuel Rawson Gardiner (4 March 1829 - 24 February 1902) Русский: Сэмюэл Росон Гардинер (1829—1902) — английский историк, редактор и педагог.
context_page_description: The Ford Lectures, technically the James Ford Lectures in British History, are an annual series of public lectures held at the University of Oxford on the subject of English or British history. They are usually devoted to a particular historical theme and usually span six lectures over Hilary term. They are often subsequently published as a book.
context_section_description: The lectures are named in honour of their benefactor, James Ford (1779–1851). Ford was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford, in 1797.  After graduating in 1801, he went on to his Master of Arts and Bachelor of Divinity degrees.  He was a Fellow of Trinity College from 1807 to 1830.  His antiquarian collections have been dispersed, but survive in the holdings of the Bodleian Library, the Library of Trinity College, the British Library, and the Cambridge University Library.
  In his will, Ford left a number of bequests, some of which were held in trust for the support of his surviving siblings. After they had all died, Oxford University received his bequest of £2,000 to fund a professorship of English history, which was to be established when the principal had grown to support payment of £100 per year. When this goal was reached in 1894, the sum was not enough to support a professor at the current stipend. After considerable discussion within the University, the funds were assigned to fund an annual lectureship in English history by a lecturer who was to be chosen annually by a board of electors. The first Ford's Lecturer in English History was S. R. Gardiner, elected for the academic year beginning in 1896. In 1994, the University of Oxford formally changed the official title of the series from "Ford's Lectures in English History" to "Ford's Lectures in British History".
  As the lectures may be given in either the Michaelmas or Hilary terms (or partly in both), confusion can arise on publication because either calendar year may be stated. The following list gives the academic year.
caption: Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1829–1902), who delivered the first Ford Lectures in 1896–7
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