Portal:Leslie Stephen Lecture

Year	Name	Lecturer
1907	Samuel Johnson: the Leslie Stephen lecture, delivered in the Senate House, Cambridge 22 February 1907	Walter Alexander Raleigh
1909	Tennyson: the Leslie Stephen lecture	William Paton Ker
1911	Principles of Biography: The Leslie Stephen Lecture delivered in the Senate House, Cambridge, on 13 May 1911	Sidney Lee
1913	Gray's Letters[1]	T. H. Warren[2]
1915	Poetry and national character; the Leslie Stephen lecture delivered at Cambridge on 13 May 1915 IA	W. Macneile Dixon
1917	Jonathan Swift: the Leslie Stephen Lecture delivered before the University of Cambridge on 26 May 1917	Charles Whibley
1919	Pope: the Leslie Stephen lecture delivered before the University of Cambridge 10 May 1919 IA	J. W. Mackail
1921	[3]
1923	Classical and romantic : the Leslie Stephen lecture delivered at Cambridge, 3 May 1923	H. J. C. Grierson
1925	Pope: the Leslie Stephen Lecture for 1925 IA	Lytton Strachey
1927	David Hume and the Miraculous, Leslie Stephen Lecture	Alfred 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.
1929	Progress in Literature: The Leslie Stephen Lecture 1929	Lascelles Abercrombie
1931	Chaucer	John Masefield
1933	The name and nature of poetry	A. E. Housman
1935	Jane Austen	David Cecil
1937	Leslie Stephen: The Leslie Stephen lecture delivered before the University of Cambridge on 27 May 1937	Desmond MacCarthy
1939	Leslie Stephen and Matthew Arnold as critics of Wordsworth : Leslie Stephen lecture 1939	John Dover Wilson
1941	[4]
1943	[4]
1945	[4]
1947	Tennyson's two brothers: the Leslie Stephen Lecture	Harold Nicolson
1949	[5]
1951	The mechanism of satire	Edmund Valpy Knox
1953
1955	Three Episodes in the Life of Kaiser Wilhelm II ... The Leslie Stephen Lecture	John Wheeler Wheeler-Bennett
1957	The Sense of the Past ... The Leslie Stephen Lecture, 1957	Cicely Veronica Wedgewood
1959	Charles Townshend: his character and career	Lewis Namier and John Brooke
1961	Lloyd George: Rise and fall	A. J. P. Taylor
1963	Samuel Richardson[6][7]	Angus Wilson
1965	[8][7]	George N. Clark
1967	The sovereignty of good over other concepts	Iris Murdoch
1969	Disraeli and Gladstone	Robert Blake
1972	Morality and pessimism	Stuart Hampshire
1974	The art critic and the art historian	Quentin Bell
1976	Is history becoming a social science? : The case of contemporary history (1977)	Alan Bullock
1979	The sheep and the ceremony	Richard Wollheim
1982	Conyers Middleton	Hugh Trevor-Roper
1985	Real Presences: The Leslie Stephen Memorial Lecture, 1985	George Steiner
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1988	Joy or Night: Last Things in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats and Philip Larkin (1993)	Seamus Heaney
...
1995	Leslie Stephen and the New Dictionary of National Biography	H. C. G. Matthew
1997
1999	Leslie Stephen and Derivative Immortality	Jonathan Steinberg
2002	The lies and silences of biography	Victoria Glendinning
2004	India	Amartya Sen
2005	Changing conceptions of national biography: the Oxford D.N.B. in historical perspective	Keith Thomas
2008	The Biographer’s Tale	Claire Tomalin
2010	The Dark Sixteenth Century	Colm Tóibín
2012	Brotherly Biography: Leslie Stephen and Life-Writing	Hermione Lee
2014	George Eliot and the Difficulty of Reaching Conclusions	Rosemary Ashton
2016	Shaping granite into a rainbow: the task of the intellectual biographer	Ray Monk
2018	Liberalism, populism, and the fate of the world	Sir Simon Schama
2022	This identity we so feverishly cherish	Kwame 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. 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. 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