Regius Professor of Divinity

Regius Professor of Divinity

The Regius Professorship of Divinity is one of the oldest and most prestigious of the professorships at the University of Oxford and at the University of Cambridge.

Both chairs were founded by Henry VIII. The Cambridge chair had a stipend of £40 per year, later increased by James I with the rectory of Somersham, Cambridgeshire.

Regius Professors of Divinity at Oxford

* Richard Smyth, DD, Fellow of Merton, and Principal of St Alban Hall (1535)
* Peter Martyr, DD, of the University of Padua, Canon of Christ Church (1548)
* Richard Smyth again; Canon of Christ Church (1554)
* Joannes Fraterculus (a Spaniard), BD, Divinity Reader of Magdalen College (1556)
* Richard Smyth again (1559)
* Lawrence Humphrey, MA, Fellow, afterwards President, of Magdalen; DD (1560)
* Thomas Holland, DD, Fellow of Balliol; Rector of Exeter (1589)
* Robert Abbot, DD, Master of Balliol; afterwards Bishop of Salisbury (1612)
* John Prideaux, DD, Rector of Exeter; afterwards Bishop of Worcester (1615)
* Robert Sanderson, DD, sometime Fellow of Lincoln (1642)
* Robert Crosse, BD, Fellow of Lincoln (1648)
* Joshua Hoyle, DD, Master of University (1648)
* John Conant, DD, Rector of Exeter (1654)
* Robert Sanderson, DD, restored; afterwards Bishop of Lincoln (1660)
* William Creed, DD, sometime Fellow of St John's (1661)
* Richard Allestree, DD, Canon of Christ Church (1663)
* William Jane, DD, Canon of Christ Church (1680)
* John Potter, DD, Fellow of Lincoln; Bishop of Oxford; afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury (1707)
* George Rye, DD, sometime Fellow of Oriel; Archdeacon of Oxford (1737)
* John Fanshawe, DD, Student of Christ Church, and Regius Professor of Greek (1741)
* Edward Bentham, DD, Canon of Christ Church (1763)
* Benjamin Wheeler, DD, Fellow of Magdalen (1776)
* John Randolph, DD, Student of Christ Church, Professor of Poetry, and Regius Professor of Greek; Bishop of London; afterwards Bishop of Bangor, then of London (1783)
* Charles Henry Hall, DD, Canon of Christ Church; afterwards Dean (1807)
* William Howley, DD, Canon of Christ Church; afterwards Bishop of London, Archbishop of Canterbury (1809)
* William Van Mildert, DD, Queen's; afterwards Bishop of Llandaff and Dean of St Paul's, Bishop of Durham (1813)
* Frodsham Hodson, DD, Principal of Brasenose (1820)
* Charles Lloyd, Student of Christ Church; Bishop of Oxford (1822)
* Edward Burton, DD, Student of Christ Church (1829)
* Renn Dickson Hampden, DD, Principal of St Mary Hall; afterwards Bishop of Hereford (1836)
* William Jacobson, MA, Vice-Principal of Magdalen Hall and Public Orator, sometime Fellow of Exeter; DD, afterwards Bishop of Chester (1848)
* Robert Payne Smith, MA, Pembroke; DD; afterwards Dean of Canterbury (1865)
* James Bowling Mozley, BD, sometime Fellow of Magdalen; DD (1871)
* William Ince, MA, Fellow of Exeter; DD; Canon of Christ Church (1878)
* Henry Scott Holland, MA, Hon DLitt, sometime Student of Christ Church; DD; Canon of Christ Church (1911)
* Arthur Cayley Headlam, DD, sometime Fellow of All Souls; Canon of Christ Church (1918)
* Henry Leighton Goudge, DD, Canon of Christ Church (1923)
* Oliver Chase Quick, MA, Canon of Christ Church; afterwards DD (1939)
* Leonard Hodgson, DD, Canon of Christ Church (1944)
* Henry Chadwick, DD, Canon of Christ Church (MusB, DD Camb; Hon DD Glas) (1959)
* Maurice Wiles, DD, Canon of Christ Church (BD, MA Camb) (1970)
* Keith Ward, BLitt, MA, Canon of Christ Church (BA Wales; MA Camb) (1991)
* Marilyn McCord Adams, AB Illinois; PhD Cornell; Th M Princeton Theological Seminary; Canon of Christ Church (2004)

(Sources: "Oxford Historical Register 1200-1900" and supplements; and the "Oxford University Calendar")

* See also: Theology Faculty of the University of Oxford

Regius Professors of Divinity at Cambridge

* John Madew (15??)
* Martin Bucer (1550)
* John Young (1555)
* Thomas Sedgwick (1557)
* James Pilkington (1559)
* Guy Wygan (1560)
* Leonard Pilkington (1561)
* Matthew Hutton (1562)
* John Whitgift (1567)
* William Chaderton (1569)
* William Whitaker (Regius Professor) (1580)
* John Overall (1596)
* John Richardson (1606)
* Samuel Collins (1617)
* John Arrowsmith (1651)
* Anthony Tuckney (1656)
* Peter Gunning (1661)
* Joseph Beaumont (1674)
* Henry James (1700)
* Richard Bentley (1717)
* John Whalley (1742)
* John Green (1749)
* Thomas Rutherforth (1756)
* Richard Watson (1771)
* John Randolph (1783-1807)
* John Kaye (1816)
* Thomas Turton (1827)
* Alfred Ollivant (1843)
* James Amiraux Jeremie (1850)
* Brooke Foss Westcott (1870)
* Henry Barclay Swete (1890)
* Vincent Henry Stanton (1916)
* Alexander Nairne (1922)
* Charles Earle Raven (1932)
* Arthur Michael Ramsey (1950)
* John Burnaby (1952)
* Edward Craddock Ratcliffe (1958)
* Dennis Eric Nineham (1964)
* Geoffrey Hugo Lampe (1971)
* Henry Chadwick (1979)
* Stephen Whitefield Sykes (1985)
* David Frank Ford (1991)


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