Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity
The Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity is the oldest professorship at 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 Lady Margaret Professors of Divinity
Dates shown are date of election.
- 1502 John Fisher
- 1504 Thomas Cosyn
- 1506 William Burgoine
- 1511 Desiderius Erasmus
- 1515 John Fawne
- 1521 Thomas Ashley (professor)
- 1532 William Buckmaster
- 1538 John Redman (professor)
- 1542 William Skete
- 1544 Wiliam Glyn
- 1549 John Redman
- 1554 Thomas Sedgwick (or Segiswycke)
- 1556 George Bullock
- 1559 Robert Beaumont (or Beamond)
- 1561 Matthew Hutton
- 1563 John Whitgift
- 1567 William Chaderton
- 1569 Thomas Cartwright
- 1570 John Still
- 1573 John Hansome (or Hanson)
- 1574 Peter Baro
- 1596 Thomas Playfere (or Playford)
- 1609 John Davenant
- 1623 Samuel Ward
- 1643 Richard Holdsworth
- 1649 Richard Love
- 1661 Peter Gunning
- 1661 John Pearson
- 1673 Ralph Widdrington
- 1688 Humphrey Gower
- 1711 Robert Jenkin
- 1727 John Newcome
- 1765 Zachary Brooke
- 1788 John Mainwaring
- 1807 Herbert Marsh
- 1839 John James Blunt
- 1855 William Selwyn
- 1875 Joseph Barber Lightfoot
- 1879 Charles Anthony Swainson
- 1887 Fenton John Anthony Hort
- 1892 Joseph Rawson Lumby
- 1895 Arthur James Mason
- 1903 Alexander Francis Kirkpatrick
- 1907 William Ralph Inge
- 1911 James Bethune-Baker
- 1935 Fred Marsh
- 1951 Charles F. D. Moule
- 1976 Morna D. Hooker
- 1998 Graham N. Stanton
- 2010 Judith M. Lieu[1]