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 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
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
- ^ "The Reverend Professor CFD Moule". Obituary. The 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.