Forbes Chair of English Language

The Forbes Chair of English Language is a chair at the University of Edinburgh.^[1] It is one of a number of chairs founded in the 1940s following a bequest by East India mechant and Edinburgh alumnus Daniel Mackintosh Forbes.^[2] Its original title was the Forbes Chair of English Language and General Linguistics, but with the creation of a separate chair of general linguistics in the 1960s the latter part of the title was dropped, incumbent Angus McIntosh continuing in the role.^[1]

List of Forbes Professors of English Language

• 1948–1979: Angus McIntosh^[3][4]
• 1979–1988: James Peter Thorne^[5]
• 1990–2004: Charles Jones^[6][7]
• 2005–2011: April McMahon^[8][9]
• 2013–present: Bettelou Los^[10]