until the nineteenth century. William Whewell who was appointed to the Professorship in 1838, gave evidence to the University Commission stating that he was not aware that any predecessor to the post had lectured. Originally entitled the "Professorship of Moral Theology or Casuisticall Divinity", with the holder often known as simply the "Professor of Casuistry", it was subsequently designated the Professorship of Moral Theology, Casuistical Divinity, and Moral Philosophy. In 1896 it became the Professorship of Moral Philosophy. The scope of the professorship was officially broadened from merely moral to general philosophy under its present name in 1965. Knightbridge Professors Thomas Smoult (1683) John Colbatch (1707) Richard Walker (1744) Edmund Law (1764) Robert Plumptre (1769) George Borlase (1788) Robert Towerson Cory (1809) Francis Barnes (1813) William Whewell (1838) John Grote (1855) F. D. Maurice (1866) Thomas Rawson Birks (1872) Henry Sidgwick (1883) W.R. Sorley (1900) C. D. Broad (1933) Richard Bevan Braithwaite (1953) Bernard Williams (1967) Timothy Smiley (1980) Edward Craig (1998) Quassim Cassam (2007) Tim Crane (2009) Rae Langton (2017) References School of Arts and Humanities, University of Cambridge Professorships in philosophy 1683 establishments in the British Empire