Brewer's: Lucasian Professor

A professor of mathematics in the University of Cambridge. This professorship was founded in 1663 by Henry Lucas, Esq, M.P. for the University.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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