University Chair of Natural Philosophy (1847)

University Chair of Natural Philosophy, is a professorship in the School of Mathematics at Trinity College Dublin. It was established in 1847.

From 1724 to 1847 the Erasmus Smith's Professorship of Natural and Experimental Philosophy existed at Trinity College Dublin which had a mathematical and theoretical orientation, with many holders being also mathematicians, and several such as Bartholomew Lloyd (1822) and James MacCullagh (1843) having previously held the Chair of Mathematics. Then in 1847 the University Chair of Natural Philosophy was founded and took on the applied mathematics and theoretical physics role, while Erasmus Smith's Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy (1724) became the chair of experimental physics.