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 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

• 1976 Morna Hooker

• 1998 Graham N. Stanton

• 2007 Judith M. Lieu

• 2018 George van Kooten