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.

Notes

  1. ↑ Inaugural Lecture of Judith Lieu as Lady Margaret’s Professor, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge

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