[1] It is named for Sir Robert Rede, who was Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in the sixteenth century.
In principle, there were three lectureships each year, on Logic, Philosophy and Rhetoric.
These differed from the later individual lectures, in that they were appointments to a lectureship for a period of time, rather than an appointment for a one-off annual lecture.
There was also a Mathematics lectureship which dated from an earlier time, while another term used was "Barnaby Lecturer", as the lecturers were elected on St Barnabas Day.
A selection of the lecturers, who tended to have studied at Cambridge and be appointed after becoming Fellows of a College, is given below, with a full listing given in the sources.