Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity is the oldest professorship or "chair" in the University of Cambridge. It was founded initially as a readership by Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII. Table of contents 1 List of holders of the Lady Margaret's Professorship of Divinity 2 See also 3 External links List of holders of the Lady Margaret's Professorship of Divinity Dates shown are date of election. John Fisher, 1502 Thomas Cosyn, 1504 William Burgoine, 1506 Desiderius Erasmus, 1511 John Fawne, 1515 Thomas Ashley, 1521 William Buckmaster, 1532 John Redman, 1538 William Skete, 1542 William Glyn, 1544 John Redman, 1549 Thomas Sedgwick (or Segiswycke), 1554 George Bullock, 1556 Robert Beaumont (or Beamond), 1559 Matthew Hutton, 1561 John Whitgift, 1563 William Chaderton (or Chatterton), 1567 Thomas Cartwright, 1569 John Still, 1570 John Hansome (or Hanson), 1573 Peter Baro (or Barrowe), 1574 Thomas Playfere (or Playford), 1596 John Davenant, 1609 Samuel Ward, 1623 Richard Holdsworth, 1643 Richard Love, 1649 Peter Gunning, 1661 John Pearson, 1661 Ralph Widdrington, 1673 Humphrey Gower, 1688 Robert Jenkin, 1711 John Newcome, 1727 Zachary Brooke, 1765 John Mainwaring, 1788 Herbert Marsh, 1807 John James Blunt, 1839 William Selwyn, 1855 Joseph Barber Lightfoot, 1875 Charles Anthony Swainson, 1879 Fenton John Anthony Hort, 1887 Joseph Rawson Lumby, 1892 Arthur James Mason, 1895 Alexander Francis Kirkpatrick, 1903 William Ralph Inge, 1907 James Bethune-Baker, 1911 Fred Marsh, 1935 Charles F. D. Moule, 1951 Morna D. Hooker, 1976 Graham N. Stanton, 1998 See also List of Professorships at the University of Cambridge External links Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge Lady Margaret's Professors of Divinity at Cambridge This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.