Incumbents of The Woodwardian Professorship of Geology
- Conyers Middleton, 1731
- Charles Mason, 1734 (died 1770 and described on his tomb in Orwell church as "Woodwardian Profeffor of Foffils")
- John Michell, 1762
- Samuel Ogden, 1764
- Thomas Green, 1778
- John Hailstone, 1788
- Adam Sedgwick, 1818
- Thomas McKenny Hughes, 1873
- John Edward Marr, 1917
- Owen Thomas Jones, 1930
- William Bernard Robinson King, 1943
- Oliver Meredith Boone Bulman, 1955
- Harry Blackmore Whittington, 1966-1983
- Ian Nicholas McCave, 1985-2008
- David A. Hodell, 2008-
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