Regius Professor of Divinity
The Regius Professorships of Divinity are amongst the oldest professorships at the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. A third chair existed for a period at Trinity College, Dublin.
The Oxford and Cambridge chairs were founded by King Henry VIII. The chair at Cambridge originally had a stipend of £40 per year (which is still paid to the incumbent by Trinity College), later increased by James I with the rectory of Somersham, Cambridgeshire.
Professors 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)
- Juan de Villagarcia, known as Joannes Fraterculus (a Spanish Dominican), 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 Cantab.; Hon DD Glas) (1959)
- Maurice Wiles, DD, Canon of Christ Church (BD, MA Cantab.) (1970)
- Keith Ward, BLitt, MA, DD, Canon of Christ Church (BA Wales; MA Cantab.; DD Oxon.; DD Cantab.; HonDD Glas) (1991)
- Marilyn McCord Adams, AB Illinois; PhD Cornell; Th M Princeton Theological Seminary; Canon of Christ Church (2004)
- Graham Ward Canon of Christ Church (MA, PhD Cantab.) (2012–present)
(Sources: Oxford Historical Register 1200-1900 and supplements; and the Oxford University Calendar)
- See also: Theology Faculty of the University of Oxford
Professors at Cambridge
- Edward Wigan, alias Guy (1540)[1]
- John Madew (c.1545)[2]
- Martin Bucer (1550)[3]
- In 1553 Archbishop Thomas Cranmer offered the Regius Chair to Philip Melanchthon, who declined the offer
- John Young (1555)[4]
- Thomas Sedgwick (1557)[5]
- James Pilkington (1559)[6]
- Leonard Pilkington (1561)[7]
- Matthew Hutton (1562)[8]
- John Whitgift (1567)[9]
- William Chaderton (1569)[10]
- William Whitaker (1580)[11]
- 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 (?)
- Thomas Rutherforth (1745)
- 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)[12]
- John Burnaby (1952)
- Edward Craddock Ratcliffe (1958)
- Dennis Eric Nineham (1964)[13]
- Geoffrey Hugo Lampe (1971)
- Henry Chadwick (1979)[14]
- Stephen Sykes (1985)[15]
- David Frank Ford (1991)
- Ian Alexander McFarland (2015)[16]
Professors at Dublin
The Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Dublin was established in 1607 as the "Professor of Theological Controversies".[17][18] The endowment was increased in 1674 by letters patent of Charles II.[18] The title "Regius Professor" was specified in 1761 by letters patent of George III.[18][19] The School of Divinity was founded in the late 18th century with the Regius Professor as its head.[20] The School's link to the Church of Ireland was controversial after the Irish Church Act 1869 disestablished the church and the University of Dublin Tests Act 1873 allowed non-Anglican fellows.[21] The debate became dormant after 1911 letters patent altered the School's governance.[21][22] It reignited in the 1960s, after which vacancies in the School of Divinity went unfilled,[21][22] including the Regius Professorship in 1982.[23] The School of Divinity was replaced in 1978–81 by a non-denominational School of Hebrew, Biblical and Theological Studies (renamed the Department of Religions and Theology in 2004) although the statutes mandating a School and Regius Professor of Divinity remain unrepealed.[22][23][24]
Professors were:[18]
- 1591– (Luke Challoner)[25]
- 1607–21 James Ussher[26]
- 1621–23 (Samuel Ward)
- 1623–48 Joshua Hoyle[17]
- 1662–70 Richard Lingard
- 1670–78 Michael Ward
- 1678–92 William Palliser
- 1693–99 George Browne
- 1699– Owen Lloyd
- 1714– Richard Baldwin
- 1722– Claudius Gilbert
- 1743– Henry Clarke
- 1746– John Pellisier
- 1753– John Lawson
- 1759– Brabazon Disney
- 1790–1819 James Drought
- 1819–29 Richard Graves, D.D. Dean of Ardagh.[27][28]
- 1829–50 Charles Richard Elrington[29][30]
- 1850–62 Joseph Henderson Singer
- 1852–66 Samuel Butcher[31]
- 1866–88 George Salmon
- 1888–1917 John Gwynn[32]
- 1917–30 Alan Hugh McNeile[33]
- 1930–35 Newport John Davis White[34]
- 1935–57 John Ernest Leonard Oulton[35][36][37]
- 1957–62 Richard Randall Hartford[36]
- 1964–82 Hugh Frederic Woodhouse[38]
See also
References
Citations
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- Curry, William, jun. The picture of Dublin: or, Stranger's guide to the Irish metropolis 1835- Page 34 "The Divinity School consists of the Regius Professor of Divinity, and Archbishop King's Lecturer, each of whom has his assistants."
- Dublin University magazine: a literary and political journal 1841- Volume 17 - Page 634 "The whole Works of Richard Graves, D.D. late Dean of Ardagh, and Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Dublin, now first collected, with a Memoir of his Life and Writings, by his son, Richard Hastings Graves, D.D., Rector of Brigown ..."
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