1859–1867

Henry Longueville Mansel

1867–1889

Henry William Chandler

1889–1910

Thomas Case

1910–1936

John Alexander Smith

1936–1941

Robin G. Collingwood

1945–1967

Gilbert Ryle

1968–1987

P. F. Strawson

1989–2000

Christopher Peacocke

2003–2006

Dorothy Edgington

2006–2015

John Hawthorne

2016–

Ofra Magidor

This Waynflete Professorship is one of five statutory professorships in philosophy at the University of Oxford, the other four being the Wykeham Professorship in Logic, the White’s Professorship of Moral Philosophy, the Wilde Professor of Mental Philosophy, as well as the untitled professorship in Ancient Philosophy.

1865–1872

Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 2nd Baronet

1872–1912

William Odling

1912–1930 , first head of Dyson Perrins Laboratory;

William Henry Perkin, Jr.

1930–1954

Sir Robert Robinson

1954–1978

Ewart Jones

1978–2005 , last head of Dyson Perrins Laboratory;

Sir Jack Baldwin

2006–2021 , ex-Chairman of Chemistry.

Stephen G. Davies

2022– , from 1st November[1]

Véronique Gouverneur

The four heads of the Dyson Perrins Laboratory were four consecutive Waynflete Professors of Chemistry, from its foundation in 1916 as the University's research centre for organic chemistry to its relocation in 2003.

1882–1905

John Scott Burdon-Sanderson

1905–1913

Francis Gotch

1913–1935

Charles Scott Sherrington

1936–1939

John Mellanby

1940–1960

Edward George Tandy Liddell

1960–1967

George Lindor Brown

1968–1979

David Whitteridge

1979–2007

Colin Blakemore

2007–

Gero Miesenböck

1892–1921

Edwin Bailey Elliott

1922–1945

Arthur Lee Dixon

1947–1960 [2]

J. H. C. Whitehead

1960–1984

Graham Higman

1984–2006

Daniel Quillen

2007–2013

Raphaël Rouquier

2013– [3]

Ben Green