Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity

Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity

The Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity is the oldest professorship or "chair" in the University of Cambridge. It was founded initially as a readership by Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII, in 1502.

There is also a Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford.

List of holders of the Lady Margaret's Professorship of Divinity

Dates shown are date of election.

*John Fisher, 1502
*Thomas Cosyn, 1504
*William Burgoine, 1506
*Desiderius Erasmus, 1511
*John Fawne, 1515
*Thomas Ashley (professor), 1521
*William Buckmaster, 1532
*John Redman (professor), 1538
*William Skete, 1542
*William Glyn (professor), 1544
*John Redman (professor), 1549
*Thomas Sedgwick (or Segiswycke), 1554
*George Bullock (professor), 1556
*Robert Beaumont (or Beamond), 1559
*Matthew Hutton, 1561
*John Whitgift, 1563
*William Chaderton, 1567
*Thomas Cartwright, 1569
*John Still, 1570
*John Hansome (or Hanson), 1573
*Peter Baro, 1574
*Thomas Playfere (or Playford), 1596
*John Davenant, 1609
*Samuel Ward, 1623
*Richard Holdsworth, 1643
*Richard Love, 1649
*Peter Gunning, 1661
*John Pearson, 1661
*Ralph Widdrington, 1673
*Humphrey Gower, 1688
*Robert Jenkin, 1711
*John Newcome, 1727
*Zachary Brooke, 1765
*John Mainwaring, 1788
*Herbert Marsh, 1807
*John James Blunt, 1839
*William Selwyn, 1855
*Joseph Barber Lightfoot, 1875
*Charles Anthony Swainson, 1879
*Fenton John Anthony Hort, 1887
*Joseph Rawson Lumby, 1892
*Arthur James Mason, 1895
*Alexander Francis Kirkpatrick, 1903
*William Ralph Inge, 1907
*James Bethune-Baker, 1911
*Fred Marsh, 1935
*Charles F. D. Moule, 1951
*Morna D. Hooker, 1976
*Graham N. Stanton, 1998
*Judith M. Lieu, 2007

ee also

*List of Professorships at the University of Cambridge

External links

* [http://www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/ Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge]
* [http://www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/LM500/lmprofs_prominent.html Lady Margaret's Professors of Divinity at Cambridge]


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