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The '''Lady Margaret Professorship of Divinity''' is a senior professorship in [[Christ Church, Oxford|Christ Church]] of the [[University of Oxford]]. The professorship was founded from the benefaction of [[Lady Margaret Beaufort]] (1443–1509), mother of [[Henry VII of England|Henry VII]]. Its holders were all priests until 2015, when [[Carol Harrison (theologian)|Carol Harrison]], a lay theologian, was appointed to the chair.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/global/wwwoxacuk/localsites/currentvacancies/furtherparticularsforprofessorships/Lady_Margaret_Professorship_of_Divinity.pdf | title=Job Description and Selection Criteria, Lady Margaret Professorship of Divinity, Christ Church, Oxford | publisher=[[University of Oxford]] | location=UK | access-date=7 December 2013 | archive-date=13 November 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181113020114/http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/global/wwwoxacuk/localsites/currentvacancies/furtherparticularsforprofessorships/Lady_Margaret_Professorship_of_Divinity.pdf | url-status=dead }}</ref>

==List of chair holders==
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*?-1530 [[John Kynton]]<ref>{{DNB Cite|wstitle=Kynton, John|volume=31}}</ref>
*1539-? [[Richard Wilkes]]<ref>[https://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search-2018.pl?sur=&suro=w&fir=&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&z=all&tex=WLKS523R&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50; Richard WILKES] Peile, I. 12; Cooper, I. 162; Le Neve, Fasti, I. 357; Richard WILKES,B.A. 1523/4;M.A. 1527;B.D. 1536/7;Fellow of QUEENS', 1526-42;Proctor, 1533-4;Lady Margaret-Preacher,1539;V. of Littlebury, Essex , 1541-4;R. of Pulham, Norfolk, 1542;R. of Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire, 1544;Chaplain to the Bishop [of Ely, Cambridgeshire ?];Master of St John's Hospital, Ely [Cambridgeshire], 1547;Preb. of Ely [Cambridgeshire], 1550;Retired to Ely [Cambridgeshire], 1553;Died there 15 Oct., 1556.</ref>
*1540-1549 [[Hugh Weston]]<ref>{{DNB Cite|wstitle=Weston, Hugh|volume=60}}</ref>
*1561 [[Francis Babington]]<ref>{{Cite DNB|wstitle=Babington, Francis|volume=2}}</ref>
*1564 [[James Calfhill]]<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Calfhill, James|volume=8}}</ref> 
*1565-1594 [[Edward Cradock]]<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Cradock, Edward|volume=12}}</ref>
*1613-1614 [[Sebastian Benefield]]<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Benefield, Sebastian|volume=4}}</ref>
*1627 [[Samuel Fell]]<ref name = BHO>{{Cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=35289|title=Canons : Sixth prebend &#124; British History Online}}</ref>
*1638 [[Thomas Laurence]]<ref name = BHO/><ref>{{DNB Cite|wstitle=Laurence, Thomas|volume=32}}</ref>
*1648-1652 [[Francis Cheynell]]<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Cheynell, Francis|volume=10}}</ref>
*1652 [[Henry Wilkinson (canon)|Henry Wilkinson]]<ref name = BHO/>
*1660 [[Thomas Barlow (bishop)|Thomas Barlow]]<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Barlow, Thomas (1607-1691)|volume=3}}</ref>
*1676 [[John Hall (bishop)|John Hall]]<ref name = BHO/><ref>{{DNB Cite|wstitle=Hall, John (1633-1710)|volume=24}}</ref>
*1691 [[Henry Maurice (Oxford professor)|Henry Maurice]]<ref name = BHO/>
*1691-1705 [[Thomas Sykes (academic)|Thomas Sykes]]<ref name = BHO/>
*1705-1716 [[John Wynne (bishop)|John Wynne]]<ref name = BHO/>
*1715-1728 [[William Delaune]]<ref name = BHO/>
*1728-1768 [[Thomas Jenner (theologian)|Thomas Jenner]]<ref name = BHO/>
*1768-1783 [[Thomas Randolph (Oxford)|Thomas Randolph]]<ref name = BHO/>
*1783-1798 [[Timothy Neve]]<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Neve, Timothy (1724-1798)|volume=40}}</ref>
*1798-1827 [[Septimus Collinson]]<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Collinson, Septimus|volume=11}}</ref>
*1827-1853 [[Godfrey Faussett]]<ref name = BHO/>
*1853-1895 [[Charles Abel Heurtley]]<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Heurtley, Charles Abel|supplement=1|volume=2}}
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*1895-1919 [[William Sanday (theologian)|William Sanday]]
*1919-1927 [[Walter Lock]]
*1927-1943 [[N.&nbsp;P. Williams]]
*1944-1968 [[F.&nbsp;L. Cross]]
*1970-1986 [[John Macquarrie]]
*1986-1991 [[Rowan Williams]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/73 |title=The Archbishop of Canterbury - Biography |accessdate=2008-11-04 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081219235020/http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/73 |archivedate=2008-12-19 }}</ref>
*1996-2003 [[John Webster (British theologian)|John Webster]]
*2004-2013 [[George Pattison]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/college/profile/academics/george-pattison |title=Professor George Pattison &#124; Christ Church, Oxford |accessdate=2010-10-23 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100603064008/http://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/college/profile/academics/george-pattison |archivedate=2010-06-03 }}</ref>
*2015-present [[Carol Harrison (theologian)|Carol Harrison]]
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==See also==
*[[Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity]] at the [[University of Cambridge]]
*[[List of professorships at the University of Oxford]].

==Notes==
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==References==
*Aston, T.&nbsp;H. ''The History of the University of Oxford''.  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.

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