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.^{[citation needed]}

Contents

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  1 Professors at Oxford
  


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  2 Professors at Cambridge
  


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  3 Professors at Dublin
  


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  4 See also
  


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  5 References
  
  
  
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    5.1 Citations
    
  
  
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    5.2 Sources
    
  
  
  
  

Professors at Oxford

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  Richard Smyth, DD, Fellow of Merton, and Principal of St Alban Hall (1535)


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  Peter Martyr, DD, of the University of Padua, Canon of Christ Church (1548)


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  Richard Smyth again; Canon of Christ Church (1554)


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  Juan de Villagarcia, known as Joannes Fraterculus (a Spanish Dominican), BD, Divinity Reader of Magdalen College (1556)


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  Richard Smyth again (1559)


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  Lawrence Humphrey, MA, Fellow, afterwards President, of Magdalen; DD (1560)


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  Thomas Holland, DD, Fellow of Balliol; Rector of Exeter (1589)


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  Robert Abbot, DD, Master of Balliol; afterwards Bishop of Salisbury (1612)


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  John Prideaux, DD, Rector of Exeter; afterwards Bishop of Worcester (1615)


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  Robert Sanderson, DD, sometime Fellow of Lincoln (1642)


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  Robert Crosse, BD, Fellow of Lincoln (1648)


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  Joshua Hoyle, DD, Master of University (1648)


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  John Conant, DD, Rector of Exeter (1654)


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  Robert Sanderson, DD, restored; afterwards Bishop of Lincoln (1660)


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  William Creed, DD, sometime Fellow of St John's (1661)


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  Richard Allestree, DD, Canon of Christ Church (1663)


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  William Jane, DD, Canon of Christ Church (1680)


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  John Potter, DD, Fellow of Lincoln; Bishop of Oxford; afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury (1707)


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  George Rye, DD, sometime Fellow of Oriel; Archdeacon of Oxford (1737)


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  John Fanshawe, DD, Student of Christ Church, and Regius Professor of Greek (1741)


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  Edward Bentham, DD, Canon of Christ Church (1763)


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  Benjamin Wheeler, DD, Fellow of Magdalen (1776)


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  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)


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  Charles Henry Hall, DD, Canon of Christ Church; afterwards Dean (1807)


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  William Howley, DD, Canon of Christ Church; afterwards Bishop of London, Archbishop of Canterbury (1809)


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  William Van Mildert, DD, Queen's; afterwards Bishop of Llandaff and Dean of St Paul's, Bishop of Durham (1813)


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  Frodsham Hodson, DD, Principal of Brasenose (1820)


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  Charles Lloyd, Student of Christ Church; Bishop of Oxford (1822)


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  Edward Burton, DD, Student of Christ Church (1829)


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  Renn Dickson Hampden, DD, Principal of St Mary Hall; afterwards Bishop of Hereford (1836)


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  William Jacobson, MA, Vice-Principal of Magdalen Hall and Public Orator, sometime Fellow of Exeter; DD, afterwards Bishop of Chester (1848)


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  Robert Payne Smith, MA, Pembroke; DD; afterwards Dean of Canterbury (1865)


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  James Bowling Mozley, BD, sometime Fellow of Magdalen; DD (1871)


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  William Ince, MA, Fellow of Exeter; DD; Canon of Christ Church (1878)


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  Henry Scott Holland, MA, Hon DLitt, sometime Student of Christ Church; DD; Canon of Christ Church (1911)


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  Arthur Cayley Headlam, DD, sometime Fellow of All Souls; Canon of Christ Church (1918)


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  Henry Leighton Goudge, DD, Canon of Christ Church (1923)


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  Oliver Chase Quick, MA, Canon of Christ Church; afterwards DD (1939)


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  Leonard Hodgson, DD, Canon of Christ Church (1944)


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  Henry Chadwick, DD, Canon of Christ Church (MusB, DD Cantab.; Hon DD Glas) (1959)


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  Maurice Wiles, DD, Canon of Christ Church (BD, MA Cantab.) (1970)


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  Keith Ward, BLitt, MA, DD, Canon of Christ Church (BA Wales; MA Cantab.; DD Oxon.; DD Cantab.; HonDD Glas) (1991)


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  Marilyn McCord Adams, AB Illinois; PhD Cornell; Th M Princeton Theological Seminary; Canon of Christ Church (2004)


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  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]
  


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  John Madew (c.1545)^[2]
  


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  Martin Bucer (1550)^[3]
  • In 1553 Archbishop Thomas Cranmer offered the Regius Chair to Philip Melanchthon, who declined the offer
  
  


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  John Young (1555)^[4]
  


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  Thomas Sedgwick (1557)^[5]
  


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  James Pilkington (1559)^[6]
  


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  Leonard Pilkington (1561)^[7]
  


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  Matthew Hutton (1562)^[8]
  


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  John Whitgift (1567)^[9]
  


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  William Chaderton (1569)^[10]
  


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  William Whitaker (1580)^[11]
  


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  John Overall (1596)


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  John Richardson (1606)


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  Samuel Collins (1617)


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  John Arrowsmith (1651)


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  Anthony Tuckney (1656)


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  Peter Gunning (1661)


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  Joseph Beaumont (1674)


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  Henry James (1700)


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  Richard Bentley (1717)


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  John Whalley (1742)


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  John Green (?)


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  Thomas Rutherforth (1745)


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  Richard Watson (1771)


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  John Randolph (1783-1807)


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  John Kaye (1816)


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  Thomas Turton (1827)


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  Alfred Ollivant (1843)


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  James Amiraux Jeremie (1850)


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  Brooke Foss Westcott (1870)


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  Henry Barclay Swete (1890)


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  Vincent Henry Stanton (1916)


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  Alexander Nairne (1922)


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  Charles Earle Raven (1932)


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  Arthur Michael Ramsey (1950)


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  John Burnaby (1952)


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  Edward Craddock Ratcliffe (1958)


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  Dennis Eric Nineham (1964)


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  Geoffrey Hugo Lampe (1971)


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  Henry Chadwick (1979)


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  Stephen Whitefield Sykes (1985)


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  David Frank Ford (1991)


• 
  Ian Alexander McFarland (2015)

Professors at Dublin

The Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Dublin was established in 1607 as the "Professor of Theological Controversies".^[12][13] The endowment was increased in 1674 by letters patent of Charles II.^[13] The title "Regius Professor" was specified in 1761 by letters patent of George III.^[13][14] The School of Divinity was founded in the late 18th century with the Regius Professor as its head.^[15] 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.^[16] The debate became dormant after 1911 letters patent altered the School's governance.^[16][17] It reignited in the 1960s, after which vacancies in the School of Divinity went unfilled,^[16][17] including the Regius Professorship in 1982.^[18] 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.^[17][18][19]

Professors were:^[13]

• 1591– (Luke Challoner)^[20]
  


• 1607–21 James Ussher^[21]
  


• 1621–23 (Samuel Ward)


• 1623–48 Joshua Hoyle^[12]
  


• 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.^[22][23]
  


• 1829–50 Charles Richard Elrington^[24][25]
  


• 1850–62 Joseph Henderson Singer
  


• 1852–66 Samuel Butcher^[26]
  


• 1866–88 George Salmon
  


• 1888–1917 John Gwynn^[27]
  


• 1917–30 Alan Hugh McNeile^[28]
  


• 1930–35 Newport John Davis White^[29]
  


• 1935–57 John Ernest Leonard Oulton^[30][31][32]
  


• 1957–62 Richard Randall Hartford^[31]
  


• 1964–82 Hugh Frederic Woodhouse^[33]
  

See also

• Regius Professor

References

Citations

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4. 
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5. 
   ^ "Sedgwick, Thomas (SGWK529T)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
   


6. 
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7. 
   ^ "Pilkington, Leonard (PLKN544L)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
   


8. 
   ^ "Hutton, Matthew (HTN546M)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
   


9. 
   ^ "Whitgift, John (WHTT550J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
   


10. 
    ^ "Chaderton, William (CHDN555W)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
    


11. 
    ^ "Whitaker, William (WHTR564W)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
    


12. 
    ^ ^ab Dixon 1902, p.24
    


13. 
    ^ ^abcd "Regius Professor of Divinity". The Dublin University Calendar. 1867. pp. 247–249.
    


14. 
    ^ MacDonnell, Hercules Henry Graves (1844). Chartæ et statuta collegii Sacrosanctæ et individuæ Trinitatis reginæ Elizabethæ juxta Dublin. [Edited by H. H. G. Mac Donnell.] (in Latin). M.H. Gill. p. 147. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
    


15. 
    ^ Dixon 1902, p.186
    


16. 
    ^ ^abc Hanily, Sean (1 October 2016). "Church of Ireland Divinity Hostel – A Summary of RCBL MS1043". Archive of the Month. Church of Ireland. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
    


17. 
    ^ ^abc Webb, David (1993). "Appendix 1 – Divinity School Council Prefatory Note" (PDF). Consolidated Statutes. Trinity College Dublin. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
    


18. 
    ^ ^ab "The Gospel and CITC; A brief historical survey". Reform Ireland. 1 December 2004. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
    


19. 
    ^ "About Us". Department of Religions and Theology. Trinity College Dublin. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
    


20. 
    ^ Commissioners to inquire into certain matters relating to the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth, near Dublin (1878). Report. Command papers. C.2045. Dublin: HMSO. p. 6. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
    


21. 
    ^  Gordon, Alexander (1899). "Ussher, James". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography. 58. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
    


22. 
    ^ 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."
    


23. 
    ^ 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 ..."
    


24. 
    ^ The Dublin university magazine 1834 - Volume 4 - Page 352 "C. R. ELRINGTON, Regius Professor of Divinity."
    


25. 
    ^ The Irish Archaeological Society - Irish Archaeological Society 1841- Volume 1 - Page 118 "Rev. Charles R. Elrington, D.D., M.R.I.A., Regius Professor of Divinity, Dublin."
    


26. 
    ^ Howard, Joseph Jackson & Crisp, Frederick Arthur (1898). Visitation of Ireland. Vol.II. Privately printed. p. 69.
    


27. 
    ^ Comerford, Patrick (19 September 2013). "The Revd Professor RM Gwynn (1877-1962)". patrickcomerford.com. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
    


28. 
    ^ "About". Trinity Centre for Biblical Studies. Trinity College Dublin. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
    


29. 
    ^ "Prizes and other Awards" (PDF). Calendar 2006–07. Trinity College Dublin. Newport White Prize. Retrieved 22 March 2017. This prize was founded in 1935 by a gift from N. J. D. White, Regius Professor of Divinity 1930–35
    


30. 
    ^ "Obituary: John Ernest Leonard Oulton" (PDF). Trinity News. Trinity College Dublin. 7 February 1957. p. 2. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
    


31. 
    ^ ^ab "Academic who modernised the study of theology at Trinity". The Irish Times. 22 April 2000. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
    


32. 
    ^ "J. E. L. Oulton". Harvard University Press. Harvard University. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
    


33. 
    ^ Semple, Patrick (2007). The Rector who Wouldn't Pray for Rain. Mercier Press Ltd. p. 89. ISBN 9781856355605. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
    

Sources

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  Dixon, W. Macneile (1902). Trinity College, Dublin. College Histories. London: F. E. Robinson & Co. ASIN B000J2LZNK. LCCN 02021239. OCLC 2572402. OL 1091957W. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
  

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