Lady Margaret Professor

Lady Margaret Professor

The Lady Margaret Professorship of Divinity is a senior professorship in the University of Oxford.

It was founded from the benefaction of Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443-1509), mother of Henry VII. The incumbent must be a clerk in Anglican holy orders, and the professorship is attached to a canonry of Christ Church.

Holders have included:

*Nineteenth Century:
**Fausset
**W.M.Sanday
*Twentieth Century:
**Frank Leslie Cross
**Rowan Williams
**John Macquarrie
**G. Pattison. (incumbent)

References

The History of the University of Oxford, O.U.P., 1994.

ee also

*Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge
*List of Professorships at the University of Oxford.


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