Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity
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The Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity is the oldest professorship at the University of Cambridge. It was founded initially as a readership in divinity by Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII, in 1502. Since its re-endowment at the end of the 20th century, it is now specifically a chair in New Testament and early Christian studies.
There is also a Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford.
List of Lady Margaret's Professors
[edit]Dates shown are date of election.
- 1502 John Fisher
- 1504 Thomas Cosyn
- 1506 William Burgoyne
- 1511 Desiderius Erasmus
- 1515 John Fawne
- 1521 Thomas Ashley
- 1532 William Buckmaster
- 1538 John Redman
- 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 J. B. Lightfoot
- 1879 Charles Swainson
- 1887 Fenton John Anthony Hort
- 1892 J. Rawson Lumby
- 1895 Arthur James Mason
- 1903 Alexander Kirkpatrick
- 1907 William Ralph Inge
- 1911 James Bethune-Baker
- 1935 F. S. Marsh
- 1951 C. F. D. Moule[1]
- 1976 Morna Hooker
- 1998 Graham N. Stanton[2]
- 2007 Judith M. Lieu[3]
- 2018 George van Kooten[4][5][6]
Notes
[edit]- ^ "The Reverend Professor CFD Moule". Obituary. Daily Telegraph. London. 2 October 2007. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
- ^ Dunn, James D. G. (13 September 2009). "Graham Stanton". Obituary. The Guardian. London. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
- ^ "Election, appointments, reappointments, and grants of title". Cambridge University Reporter (6053). 15 November 2006. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
- ^ The Faculty welcomes Professor George van Kooten as the Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity
- ^ "Van Kooten, Prof. George". Who's Who. A & C Black. 2018. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U290761. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "Elections, appointments, reappointments, and grants of title". Cambridge University Reporter (6499): 449. 14 March 2018. Retrieved 7 September 2019.