Reg. Prof.

Noun

regius professor (plural regius professors)

1. A professor who holds a position created by or filled by a royal patron.
   • All doctors, in whatever faculty, were called likewise professores, and possessed and equal capacity to claim and occupy the chair (cathedra) on solemn inceptions and other occasions; this privilege was first restricted, by the Elizabethan statutes, to the three regii professores.1841, George Peacock, Observations on the Statutes of the University of Cambridge, London: John W. Parker. Cambridge: J. and J. J. Deighton, page 34

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