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
[edit]This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (May 2015)
- ?-1530 John Kynton[2]
- 1539-? Richard Wilkes[3]
- 1540-1549 Hugh Weston[4]
- 1561 Francis Babington[5]
- 1564 James Calfhill[6]
- 1565-1594 Edward Cradock[7]
- 1613-1614 Sebastian Benefield[8]
- 1627 Samuel Fell[9]
- 1638 Thomas Laurence[9][10]
- 1648-1652 Francis Cheynell[11]
- 1652 Henry Wilkinson[9]
- 1660 Thomas Barlow[12]
- 1676 John Hall[9][13]
- 1691 Henry Maurice[9]
- 1691-1705 Thomas Sykes[9]
- 1705-1716 John Wynne[9]
- 1715-1728 William Delaune[9]
- 1728-1768 Thomas Jenner[9]
- 1768-1783 Thomas Randolph[9]
- 1783-1798 Timothy Neve[14]
- 1798-1827 Septimus Collinson[15]
- 1827-1853 Godfrey Faussett[9]
- 1853-1895 Charles Abel Heurtley[16]
- 1895-1919 William Sanday
- 1919-1927 Walter Lock
- 1927-1943 N. P. Williams
- 1944-1968 F. L. Cross
- 1970-1986 John Macquarrie
- 1986-1991 Rowan Williams[17]
- 1996-2003 John Webster
- 2004-2013 George Pattison[18]
- 2015-present Carol Harrison
See also
[edit]- Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge
- List of professorships at the University of Oxford.
Notes
[edit]- ^ "Job Description and Selection Criteria, Lady Margaret Professorship of Divinity, Christ Church, Oxford" (PDF). UK: University of Oxford. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 November 2018. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 31. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Richard WILKES Peile, I. 12; Cooper, I. 162; Le Neve, Fasti, I. 357; Richard WILKES,B.A. 1523/4;M.A. 1527;B.D. 1536/7;Fellow of QUEENS', 1526-42;Proctor, 1533-4;Lady Margaret-Preacher,1539;V. of Littlebury, Essex , 1541-4;R. of Pulham, Norfolk, 1542;R. of Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire, 1544;Chaplain to the Bishop [of Ely, Cambridgeshire ?];Master of St John's Hospital, Ely [Cambridgeshire], 1547;Preb. of Ely [Cambridgeshire], 1550;Retired to Ely [Cambridgeshire], 1553;Died there 15 Oct., 1556.
- ^ 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 "Canons : Sixth prebend | British History Online".
- ^ 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.
- ^ "The Archbishop of Canterbury - Biography". Archived from the original on 19 December 2008. Retrieved 4 November 2008.
- ^ "Professor George Pattison | Christ Church, Oxford". Archived from the original on 3 June 2010. Retrieved 23 October 2010.
References
[edit]- Aston, T. H. The History of the University of Oxford. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.
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