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general literature 123 VIII n&ofort professorships Professorship of the Chinese Language and Literature This Professorship was founded by means of Subscriptions iven by Sir Staunton Bart and others in the ear 1846 for the purpose of encouraging the study in this ountry of the Language and Literature of China The Professorship is held for Five Years but the Professor ay be re-elected 1847 1852 1873 Professors Samuel Turner Fearon James Summers Bobert Kennaway Douglas II Tooke Professorship of Economic Science and Statistics ounded in 1859 in honour of the personal character of and the eminent services rendered to Science by the late Thomas Tooke Esq of Spring Gardens Charing Gross who died on the 6th of February 1858 The duties attaching to this Chair are given in the following xtract from the Deed of Settlement That the Tooke Professor shall be required to deliver in each year beginning the 1st day of April and ending March 31 at such times as may be arranged by the Council of King's College at least Twenty Lectures and that in order to promote the popular diffusion of knowledge of Economic Science at least Ten of these Lectures shall take place in the evening so as to admit of the attendance of young men and others engaged in business during the day and any non-compliance with this condition shall operate in an immediate forfeiture of the Professor- ship and the Council shall adopt such measures as may from time to time be found necessary to secure due discharge of the duties imposed by this Reso- lution upon the Professor for the time being