regius professor
noun
re·gius professor
ˈrē-j(ē-)əs- 
: a holder of a professorship founded by royal subsidy at a British university
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Kristian Skrede Gleditsch is regius professor of political science at the University of Essex and a research associate at the Peace Research Institute Oslo.
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Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2018
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