Editing Regius Professor of Divinity (section)

==Professors at Dublin==
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 of England|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">{{cite book|last=MacDonnell|first=Hercules Henry Graves|title=Chartæ et statuta collegii Sacrosanctæ et individuæ Trinitatis reginæ Elizabethæ juxta Dublin. [Edited by H. H. G. Mac Donnell.]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hwdeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA147|access-date=23 March 2017|year=1844|publisher=M.H. Gill|language=la|page=147}}</ref> The School of Divinity was founded in the late 18th century with the Regius Professor as its head.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/trinitycollegedu00dixouoft#page/186 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 [[University don|fellow]]s.<ref name="anglican6606"/> The debate became dormant after 1911 letters patent altered the School's governance.<ref name="anglican6606">{{cite web|url=https://www.ireland.anglican.org/news/6606/the-foundation-and-development-of|title=Church of Ireland Divinity Hostel – A Summary of RCBL MS1043|last=Hanily|first=Sean|date=1 October 2016|work=Archive of the Month|publisher=Church of Ireland|access-date=22 March 2017}}</ref><ref name="Webb1993">{{cite web|url=https://www.tcd.ie/registrar/assets/documents/statutes/64-Appendices_Divinity_School_CouncilPDF[67.2KB].pdf |title=Appendix 1 – Divinity School Council Prefatory Note|last=Webb|first=David|year=1993|work=Consolidated Statutes|publisher=Trinity College Dublin|access-date=22 March 2017}}</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">{{cite web|url=http://www.reform-ireland.org/ArticleDetails/3|title=The Gospel and CITC; A brief historical survey.|date=1 December 2004|publisher=Reform Ireland|access-date=22 March 2017}}</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>{{cite web|url=http://www.tcd.ie/Religions_Theology/about/|title=About Us|work=Department of Religions and Theology|publisher=Trinity College Dublin|access-date=22 March 2017}}</ref>

Professors were:<ref name="calendar1867">{{cite book|title=The Dublin University Calendar|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6m0tAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA247|year=1867|pages=247–249|chapter=Regius Professor of Divinity}}</ref>

===Professors of Divinity===
*1: 1591– ([[Luke Challoner]])<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/16581/page/441088 |title=Report |author=Commissioners to inquire into certain matters relating to the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth, near Dublin |series=[[Command paper]]s |date=1878 |publisher=HMSO |location=Dublin |volume=C.2045 |page=6|access-date=23 March 2017}}</ref>
*2: 1607–21 [[James Ussher]]<ref name="dnbUssher">{{cite DNB|wstitle=Ussher, James|volume=58|first=Alexander|last= Gordon}}</ref>
*3: 1621–23 ([[Samuel Ward (minister)|Samuel Ward]])
*4: 1623–48 [[Joshua Hoyle]]<ref name="Dixon24">[https://archive.org/stream/trinitycollegedu00dixouoft#page/186 Dixon 1902, p.24]</ref>
*5: 1662–70 [[Richard Lingard]]
*6: 1670–78 [[Michael Ward (bishop)|Michael Ward]]
*7: 1678–92 [[William Palliser (bishop)|William Palliser]]
*8: 1693–99 [[George Browne (provost)|George Browne]]
*9: 1699– [[Owen Lloyd (priest)|Owen Lloyd]]
*10: 1714– [[Richard Baldwin (provost)|Richard Baldwin]]
*11: 1722– [[Claudius Gilbert]]
*12: 1743– Henry Clarke
*13: 1746– John Pellisier
*14: 1753– John Lawson
*15: 1759– Brabazon <!-- not [[Brabazon Disney]] -->Disney

===Regius Professors of Divinity===
*15: 1761– Brabazon <!-- not [[Brabazon Disney]] -->Disney
*16: 1790–1819 James Drought
*17: 1819–29 [[Richard Graves (theologian)|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 (bishop)|Samuel Butcher]]<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Howard |first1=Joseph Jackson |last2=Crisp |first2=Frederick Arthur |title=Visitation of Ireland |volume=II |page=[https://archive.org/details/visitationofirel02howa/page/69 69] |publisher=Privately printed |year=1898 |name-list-style=amp |url=https://archive.org/details/visitationofirel02howa }}</ref>
*21: 1866–88 [[George Salmon]]
*22: 1888–1917 [[John Gwynn (professor)|John Gwynn]]<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.patrickcomerford.com/2013_09_19_archive.html |title=The Revd Professor RM Gwynn (1877-1962) |first=Patrick |last=Comerford |work=patrickcomerford.com |date=19 September 2013 |access-date=5 October 2013}}</ref>
*23: 1917–30 Alan Hugh McNeile<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tcd.ie/tcbs/about/|title=About|work=Trinity Centre for Biblical Studies|publisher=Trinity College Dublin|access-date=22 March 2017}}</ref>
*24: 1930–35 Newport John Davis White<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tcd.ie/assets/documents/calendar/part1_prizes_and_other_awards.pdf#page=33 |format=PDF|title=Prizes and other Awards|work=Calendar 2006–07|publisher=Trinity College Dublin|pages=Newport White Prize |no-pp=y|quote=This prize was founded in 1935 by a gift from N. J. D. White, Regius Professor of Divinity 1930–35 |access-date=22 March 2017}}</ref>
*25: 1935–57 [[John Oulton|John Ernest Leonard Oulton]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.trinitynewsarchive.ie/pdf/04-08.pdf#page=2|title=Obituary: John Ernest Leonard Oulton|date=7 February 1957|work=Trinity News|publisher=Trinity College Dublin|page=2|access-date=23 March 2017}}</ref><ref name="it263801">{{cite news|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/news/academic-who-modernised-the-study-of-theology-at-trinity-1.263801|title=Academic who modernised the study of theology at Trinity|date=22 April 2000|newspaper=[[The Irish Times]]|access-date=22 March 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hup.harvard.edu/results-list.php?author=3609|title=J. E. L. Oulton|work=Harvard University Press|publisher=[[Harvard University]]|access-date=22 March 2017}}</ref>
*26: 1957–62 [[Richard Randall Hartford]]<ref name="it263801" />
*27: 1964–82 [[Hugh Frederic Woodhouse]]<ref name="Semple2007">{{cite book|last=Semple|first=Patrick|title=The Rector who Wouldn't Pray for Rain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C8YkeNxeyXwC&pg=PA89|access-date=22 March 2017|year=2007|publisher=Mercier Press Ltd|isbn=9781856355605|page=89}}</ref>