Regius Professor of Divinity - Definition

The Regius Professorship of Divinity is one of the oldest and most prestigious of the professorships at the University of Cambridge.

The chair was founded by Henry VIII in 1540 with a stipend of £40 per year, later increased by James I with the rectory of Somersham, Cambridgeshire.

Regius Professors of Divinity

• John Madew (15??)
• Martin Bucer (1550)
• John Young (1555)
• Thomas Sedgwick (1557)
• James Pilkington (1559)
• Guy Wygan (1560)
• Leonard Pilkington (1561)
• Matthew Hutton (1562)
• John Whitgift (1567)
• William Chaderton (1569)
• William Whitaker (1580)
• John Overall (1596)
• John Richardson (1606)
• Samuel Collins (1617)
• John Arrowsmith (1651)
• Anthony Tuckney (1656)
• Peter Gunning (1661)
• Joseph Beaumont (1674)
• Henry James (1700)
• Richard Bentley (1717)
• John Whalley (1742)
• John Green (1749)
• Thomas Rutherforth (1756)
• Richard Watson (1771)
• John Kaye (1816)
• Thomas Turton (1827)
• Alfred Ollivant (1843)
• James Amiraux Jeremie (1850)
• Brooke Foss Westcott (1870)
• Henry Barclay Swete (1890)
• Vincent Henry Stanton (1916)
• Alexander Nairne (1922)
• Charles Earle Raven (1932)
• Arthur Michael Ramsey (1950)
• John Burnaby (1952)
• Edward Craddock Ratcliffe (1958)
• Dennis Eric Nineham (1964)
• Geoffrey Hugo Lampe (1971)
• Henry Chadwick (1979)
• Stephen Whitefield Sykes (1985)
• David Frank Ford (1991)