The King Edward VII Professorship of English Literature is one of the senior professorships in literature at the University of Cambridge, and was founded by a donation from Sir Harold Harmsworth in 1910 in memory of King Edward VII who had died earlier that year.

King Edward VII Professors

• Arthur Woollgar Verrall (1911)
• Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1912-1944)
• Basil Willey (1946)
• Lionel Charles Knights (1965)
• John Frank Kermode (1974)
• Christopher Bruce Ricks (1982)
• Marilyn Speers Butler (1986)
• Gillian Patricia Kempster Beer (1994)