Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity
The Lady Margaret Professorship of Divinity is a senior professorship in Christ Church of the University of Oxford.
The professorship was founded from the benefaction of Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443-1509), mother of Henry VII. Its holders were all priests until 2015, when Carol Harrison, a lay theologian, was appointed to the chair.[1]
List of chair holders
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- 1540-1549 Hugh Weston[2]
- 1561 Francis Babington[3]
- 1564 James Calfhill[4]
- 1565-1594 Edward Cradock[5]
- 1613-1614 Sebastian Benefield[6]
- 1627 Samuel Fell[7]
- 1638 Thomas Laurence[7][8]
- 1648-1652 Francis Cheynell[9]
- 1652 Henry Wilkinson[7]
- 1660 Thomas Barlow[10]
- 1676 John Hall[7][11]
- 1691 Henry Maurice[7]
- 1691-1705 Thomas Sykes[7]
- 1705-1716 John Wynne[7]
- 1715-1728 William Delaune[7]
- 1728-1768 Thomas Jenner[7]
- 1768-1783 Thomas Randolph[7]
- 1783-1798 Timothy Neve[12]
- 1798-1827 Septimus Collinson[13]
- 1827-1840 Godfrey Faussett[7]
- 1853-1895 Charles Abel Heurtley[14]
- 1895-1919 William Sanday
- 1907-1911 William Ralph Inge[15][better source needed]
- 1919-1927 Walter Lock
- 1927-1943 N. P. Williams
- 1944-1968 Frank Leslie Cross
- 1970-1986 John Macquarrie
- 1986-1991 Rowan Williams[16]
- 1996-2003 John Bainbridge Webster
- 2004-2013 George Pattison[17]
- 2015-present Carol Harrison
See also
- Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge
- List of professorships at the University of Oxford.
References
- Aston, T. H. The History of the University of Oxford. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.
Notes
- ^ Job Description and Selection Criteria, Lady Margaret Professorship of Divinity, Christ Church, Oxford
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1899). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 60. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1885). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1886). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 8. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1887). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 12. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1885). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 4. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=35289
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 32. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1887). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 10. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1885). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1890). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 24. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1894). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 40. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1887). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 11. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1901). . Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). Vol. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Inge_(priest)
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-12-19. Retrieved 2008-11-04.
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