noun

• (in the UK) the holder of a university chair founded by a sovereign (especially one at Oxford or Cambridge instituted by Henry VIII) or filled by Crown appointment.

  ‘the Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The Regius professor of public law at Edinburgh University says the parliament has brought in law reforms that would never have been achieved at Westminster.’

  Synonyms

  holder of a chair, chair, head of faculty, head of department