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bi-annual lecture at the University of Cambridge since 1907; endowed by his friends, with the specification that it be on "some literary subject, including therein criticism, biography and ethics;" named for Leslie Stephen

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YearNameLecturer
1907Samuel Johnson: the Leslie Stephen lecture, delivered in the Senate House, Cambridge 22 February 1907Walter Alexander Raleigh
1909 Tennyson: the Leslie Stephen lectureWilliam Paton Ker
1911Principles of Biography: The Leslie Stephen Lecture delivered in the Senate House, Cambridge, on 13 May 1911Sidney Lee
1913Gray's Letters[1]T. H. Warren[2]
1915 Poetry and national character; the Leslie Stephen lecture delivered at Cambridge on 13 May 1915 IACategory:Pages linking to scanned works at Internet ArchiveW. Macneile Dixon
1917 Jonathan Swift: the Leslie Stephen Lecture delivered before the University of Cambridge on 26 May 1917Charles Whibley
1919Pope: the Leslie Stephen lecture delivered before the University of Cambridge 10 May 1919 IACategory:Pages linking to scanned works at Internet ArchiveJ. W. Mackail
1921[3]
1923Classical and romantic : the Leslie Stephen lecture delivered at Cambridge, 3 May 1923H. J. C. Grierson
1925Pope: the Leslie Stephen Lecture for 1925 IACategory:Pages linking to scanned works at Internet ArchiveLytton Strachey
1927David Hume and the Miraculous, Leslie Stephen LectureAlfred Edward Taylor
as of 2023, post 1928 are not not clearly in the public domain, exceptions may exist. Odd year to even year variaion occurs from circa early 1970s.
1929Progress in Literature: The Leslie Stephen Lecture 1929Lascelles Abercrombie
1931ChaucerJohn Masefield
1933The name and nature of poetryA. E. Housman
1935Jane AustenDavid Cecil
1937Leslie Stephen: The Leslie Stephen lecture delivered before the University of Cambridge on 27 May 1937Desmond MacCarthy
1939Leslie Stephen and Matthew Arnold as critics of Wordsworth : Leslie Stephen lecture 1939John Dover Wilson
1941[4]
1943[4]
1945[4]
1947Tennyson's two brothers: the Leslie Stephen LectureHarold Nicolson
1949[5]
1951The mechanism of satireEdmund Valpy Knox
1953
1955Three Episodes in the Life of Kaiser Wilhelm II ... The Leslie Stephen LectureJohn Wheeler Wheeler-Bennett
1957The Sense of the Past ... The Leslie Stephen Lecture, 1957Cicely Veronica Wedgewood
1959Charles Townshend: his character and careerLewis Namier and John Brooke
1961Lloyd George: Rise and fallA. J. P. Taylor
1963Samuel Richardson[6][7]Angus Wilson
1965[8][7]George N. Clark
1967The sovereignty of good over other conceptsIris Murdoch
1969Disraeli and GladstoneRobert Blake
1972Morality and pessimismStuart Hampshire
1974The art critic and the art historianQuentin Bell
1976Is history becoming a social science? : The case of contemporary history (1977)Alan Bullock
1979The sheep and the ceremonyRichard Wollheim
1982Conyers MiddletonHugh Trevor-Roper
1985Real Presences: The Leslie Stephen Memorial Lecture, 1985George Steiner
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1988Joy or Night: Last Things in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats and Philip Larkin (1993)Seamus Heaney
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1995Leslie Stephen and the New Dictionary of National BiographyH. C. G. Matthew
1997
1999Leslie Stephen and Derivative ImmortalityJonathan Steinberg
2002The lies and silences of biographyVictoria Glendinning
2004IndiaAmartya Sen
2005Changing conceptions of national biography: the Oxford D.N.B. in historical perspectiveKeith Thomas
2008The Biographer’s TaleClaire Tomalin
2010The Dark Sixteenth CenturyColm Tóibín
2012Brotherly Biography: Leslie Stephen and Life-WritingHermione Lee
2014George Eliot and the Difficulty of Reaching ConclusionsRosemary Ashton
2016Shaping granite into a rainbow: the task of the intellectual biographerRay Monk
2018Liberalism, populism, and the fate of the worldSir Simon Schama
2022This identity we so feverishly cherishKwame Anthony Appiah[9]


Notes

Some of the even year lectures of the 20th century may be year of publication of the lecture, rather than the year of address. Compiling the list has found inexact references and the information should be check for truthfulness

Other lecturers of undetermined years are

  • Isaiah Berlin
  • Seamus Heaney
  • Wyndham Ketton-Cremer, Norfolk Antiquary [10]


Found reference to RudyardKipling c.1930 which seems to be an invitation to present.[11]

References

  1. ↑ No evidence that the lecture took place, or was published. (Wikisource contributor note)
  2. ↑ The Times Issue: 40061, p. 14, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 1912
  3. ↑ Unable to find a published work, nor a person being appointed to deliver the presentation. (Wikisource contributor note)
  4. 1 2 3 cannot find evidence that it will held in this year; neither announcement of speaker nor publication (Wikisource contributor note)
  5. ↑ Aberdeen Journal Issue: 29491, p. 4 Saturday, July 9, 1949, notes the BBC broadcast of the lecture without stating detail (Wikisource contributor note)
  6. ↑ The Times, Issue: 55676, p. 12, Tuesday, Apr. 16, 1963
  7. 1 2 Can find not indication that the talk was published, though scheduled (Wikisource contributor note)
  8. ↑ The Times, Issue: 56300, p.12, Tuesday, Apr. 20, 1965
  9. ↑ Scheduled for 2020 but postponed due to covid pandenic (Wikisource contributor note)
  10. ↑ Author: Alan Noel Latimer Munby; The Times Literary Supplement, Issue: 3714, p.24, Friday, May 11, 1973
  11. ↑ sussex.ac.uk
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