The Disney Professorship of Archaeology is an endowed chair in archaeology at the University of Cambridge.
It was endowed by English barrister and antiquarian John Disney in 1851 with a donation of £1,000.
He arranged for a further £3,500 bequest upon his death in 1857.
[1][2] As of 2022[update] Disney Professors have also served as the Directors of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, which was founded in 1990.
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