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Regius Professor of Divinity

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The Regius Professorships of Divinity are amongst the oldest professorships at the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. A third chair existed for a period at Trinity College Dublin.

The Oxford and Cambridge chairs were founded by Henry VIII. The chair at Cambridge originally had a stipend of £40 per year (which is still paid to the incumbent by Trinity College), later increased by James I with the rectory of Somersham, Cambridgeshire.Template:Citation needed

Professors at OxfordEdit

(Sources: Oxford Historical Register 1200-1900 and supplements; and the Oxford University Calendar)

Professors at CambridgeEdit

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Official coat of armsEdit

According to a grant of 1590, the office of Regius Professor of "Devinity" at Cambridge has a coat of arms with the following blazon:<ref>A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies (1909), pp. 587-588.</ref>

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Professors at DublinEdit

The Regius Professor of Divinity at Trinity College Dublin was established in 1607 as the "Professor of Theological Controversies".<ref name="Dixon24"/><ref name="calendar1867"/> The endowment was increased in 1674 by letters patent of Charles II.<ref name="calendar1867"/> The title "Regius Professor" was specified in 1761 by letters patent of George III.<ref name="calendar1867"/><ref name="MacDonnell1844">Template:Cite book</ref> The School of Divinity was founded in the late 18th century with the Regius Professor as its head.<ref>Dixon 1902, p.186</ref> The School's link to the Church of Ireland was controversial after the Irish Church Act 1869 disestablished the church and the University of Dublin Tests Act 1873 allowed non-Anglican fellows.<ref name="anglican6606"/> The debate became dormant after 1911 letters patent altered the School's governance.<ref name="anglican6606">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Webb1993">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It reignited in the 1960s, after which vacancies in the School of Divinity went unfilled,<ref name="anglican6606" /><ref name="Webb1993" /> including the Regius Professorship in 1982.<ref name="reformireland">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The School of Divinity was replaced in 1978–81 by a non-denominational School of Hebrew, Biblical and Theological Studies (renamed the Department of Religions and Theology in 2004) although the statutes mandating a School and Regius Professor of Divinity remain unrepealed.<ref name="Webb1993"/><ref name="reformireland"/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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Professors of DivinityEdit

Regius Professors of DivinityEdit

  • 15: 1761– Brabazon Disney
  • 16: 1790–1819 James Drought
  • 17: 1819–29 Richard Graves, D.D. Dean of Ardagh<ref>Curry, William, jun. The picture of Dublin: or, Stranger's guide to the Irish metropolis 1835- Page 34 "The Divinity School consists of the Regius Professor of Divinity, and Archbishop King's Lecturer, each of whom has his assistants."</ref><ref>Dublin University magazine: a literary and political journal 1841- Volume 17 - Page 634 "The whole Works of Richard Graves, D.D. late Dean of Ardagh, and Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Dublin, now first collected, with a Memoir of his Life and Writings, by his son, Richard Hastings Graves, D.D., Rector of Brigown ..."</ref>
  • 18: 1829–50 Charles Richard Elrington<ref>The Dublin university magazine 1834 - Volume 4 - Page 352 "C. R. ELRINGTON, Regius Professor of Divinity."</ref><ref>The Irish Archaeological Society - Irish Archaeological Society 1841- Volume 1 - Page 118 "Rev. Charles R. Elrington, D.D., M.R.I.A., Regius Professor of Divinity, Dublin."</ref>
  • 19: 1850–62 Joseph Henderson Singer
  • 20: 1852–66 Samuel Butcher<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • 21: 1866–88 George Salmon
  • 22: 1888–1917 John Gwynn<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • 23: 1917–30 Alan Hugh McNeile<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • 24: 1930–35 Newport John Davis White<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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