Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity
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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.
[edit] 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, 1521
- William Buckmaster, 1532
- John Redman, 1538
- William Skete, 1542
- William Glyn, 1544
- John Redman, 1549
- Thomas Sedgwick (or Segiswycke), 1554
- George Bullock, 1556
- Robert Beaumont (or Beamond), 1559
- Matthew Hutton, 1561
- John Whitgift, 1563
- William Chaderton (or Chatterton), 1567
- Thomas Cartwright, 1569
- John Still, 1570
- John Hansome (or Hanson), 1573
- Peter Baro (or Barrowe), 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
