The formal study of English by undergraduates began in 1884 as a option, highly linguistic and philological, within the Medieval and Modern Languages Tripos. In 1917, the greater study of literature was facilitated with the establishment of the English Tripos, intended to be taken after a Part I in another subject, usually Classics. It took the more usual form of a two part Tripos from 1926 onwards. The first chair in English, the King Edward VII Professorship of English Literature, was endowed by Harold Harmsworth in 1911 in memory of the late King. The Professorship was attached to the Special Board for Medieval and Modern Languages until 1927 when it was transferred to the Faculty of English. The Faculty shared administrative space with other arts subjects in the Faculty Rooms in Laundress Lane until 1961 when it moved into the Raised Faculty Building on the Sidgwick Site. It was subsequently accommodated in a Victorian villa at 9 West Road from 1976 until 2002 when the villa was demolished to make way for a new Faculty building, completed in 2004. Between 2002 and 2004 the Faculty was housed at 27 Trumpington Street. From Summer 2004, the Faculty resumed occupancy of 9 West Road. For further background information, see Stefan Collini 'Cambridge and the study of English' in Sarah J. Ormrod (ed.) Cambridge Contributions (CUP 1998) pp.42-64; Stephen Heath 'Cambridge English' in Richard Mason (ed.) Cambridge Minds (CUP 1994) pp.20-33; E.M.W. Tillyard The Muse Unchained (Bowes and Bowes 1958).