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FACULTY OF AM'fe 139 -Professorship of the Chinese Language and Literature This Professorship was founded by means of Subscriptions yen by Sir Staunton Bart and others in the ar 1846 for the purpose of encouraging the study in this untry of the Language and Literature of China The Professorship is held for Five Years but the Professor ay be re-elected Professors 1847 Samuel Turner Fearon 1852 James Summers 1873 Robert Kennaway Douglas -Tooke Professorship of Economic Science and Statistics unded in 1859 in honour of the personal character of and the eminent services re 1dered to Science by the late Thomas Tooke Esq B- of Spring Gardens Charing Cross who died on the 26th of February 1808 The duties attaching to this Chair are given in the following tract 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