Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity

Lady Margaret Beaufort, founder of the professorship

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