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, in 1502. The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest in the English-speaking world, after Oxford University. ... Margaret Beaufort, Queen Mother, at prayer, by an anonymous artist, about 1500 Margaret Beaufort (May 31, 1443 - June 29, 1509) was the daughter of John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, granddaughter of John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset and great-granddaughter of John of Gaunt and his mistress Katherine Swynford... Henry VII (January 28, 1457 – April 21, 1509), King of England, Lord of Ireland (August 22, 1485 – April 21, 1509), was the founder of the Tudor dynasty and is generally acknowledged as one of Englands most successful kings. ... Events January 1 - Portuguese explorers sailed into Guanabra Bay, Brazil and mistook it for the mouth of a river which they named Rio de Janeiro May 9 - Christopher Columbus leaves Spain for his fourth and final trip to the New World. May 21 - Portuguese discover island of St Helena. ...

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

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See also

• List of Professorships at the University of Cambridge

This is a list of professorships at the University of Cambridge. ...

External links

• Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge (http://www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/)
• Lady Margaret's Professors of Divinity at Cambridge (http://www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/LM500/lmprofs_prominent.html)