Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity

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Lady Margaret Beaufort, founder of the professorship

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The Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge

The Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity is the oldest professorship at the University of Cambridge. It was founded initially as a readership in divinity by Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII, in 1502. Since its re-endowment at the end of the 20th century, it is now specifically a chair in New Testament and early Christian studies.

There is also a Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford.

List of Lady Margaret's Professors

Dates shown are date of election.

External links

• Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge
• Selected Lady Margaret's Professors of Divinity