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The Boyle Lectures were named after Robert Boyle, a prominent Irish Natural Philosopher in the 17th Century. Boyle endowed a series of lectures in his will, which were designed as a forum where prominent academics could discuss the existence of God. The very first such lecture was given in 1692 by Richard Bentley.
Their design, as expressed by the institutor, is to prove the truth of the Christian religion against infidels, without descending to any controversies among Christians; and to answer new difficulties, scruples, etc. To support the lectures, he assigned the rent of his house in Crooked Lane, to a learned theologian within the Bills of Mortality, to be elected for a term, not exceeding three years, by Archbishop Tennison, and others. But the fund proving precarious, the salary was ill-paid. To remedy this, Archbishop Tennison procured a yearly stipend of 50 pounds, forever, to be paid quarterly, charged on a farm in the parish of Brill, Buckinghamshire.
The Boyle lectures were revived in 2004 at St Mary Le Bow church in the City of London by Dr Michael Byrne. They take place annually in February.

The Lectures

1692 - Richard Bentley
1693-4 - Richard Kidder
1694-5 (1695-6?) - John Williams
1697 - F. Gastrell
1698 - J. Harris
1699 - Samuel Bradford
1700 - Offspring Blackall
1701 - George Stanhope
1704-5 - Samuel Clarke
1706 - John Hancock
1707 - W. Whiston
1708 - John Turner
1709 - Lilly Butler
1710 - Josiah Woodward
1710-12 - William Derham
1713-14 - Benjamin Ibbot
1717-18 - John Leng
1719-20 - John Clarke
1721-2 - Robert Gurdon
1724-5 - Thomas Burnett
1730-2 - William Berriman
1812 - William Van Mildert
1845-6 - The Religions of the World; and Their Relations to Christianity Considered in Eight Lectures - Frederick Denison Maurice
1857-8 - William Gilson Humphry
1864 - The conversion of the Roman empire, by Charles Merivale
1865 - The Conversion of the Northern Nations, by Charles Merivale
1868-70 - The Witness of St. Paul to Christ, by Stanley Leathes
1871 - Moral Difficulties Connected with the Bible, by James Augustus Hessey
1876 - What is Natural Theology?, by Alfred Barry
1877-8 - The Manifold Witness for Christ, by Alfred Barry
1879-80 - The Evidential Value of the Holy Eucharist, by George Frederick Maclear
1895 - W. C. E. Newbolt
1903-5 - Richard John Knowling
2004 - John F. Haught
2005 - Simon Conway Morris
2006 - Philip Clayton, response by Niels Gregersen
2007 - 'Cosmology of Ultimate Concern', by John D Barrow, with a response by Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow
2008 - 'Psychologising and Neurologising about Religion: Facts, Fallacies and the Future', by Malcolm Jeeves, with a response by The Revd Dr Fraser Watts

Other Lecturers

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