Regius Professor of Divinity - Oxford Listing

Oxford Listing

• Richard Smyth, DD, Fellow of Merton, and Principal of St Alban Hall (1535)
• Peter Martyr, DD, of the University of Padua, Canon of Christ Church (1548)
• Richard Smyth again; Canon of Christ Church (1554)
• Juan de Villagarcia, known as Joannes Fraterculus (a Spanish Dominican), BD, Divinity Reader of Magdalen College (1556)
• Richard Smyth again (1559)
• Lawrence Humphrey, MA, Fellow, afterwards President, of Magdalen; DD (1560)
• Thomas Holland, DD, Fellow of Balliol; Rector of Exeter (1589)
• Robert Abbot, DD, Master of Balliol; afterwards Bishop of Salisbury (1612)
• John Prideaux, DD, Rector of Exeter; afterwards Bishop of Worcester (1615)
• Robert Sanderson, DD, sometime Fellow of Lincoln (1642)
• Robert Crosse, BD, Fellow of Lincoln (1648)
• Joshua Hoyle, DD, Master of University (1648)
• John Conant, DD, Rector of Exeter (1654)
• Robert Sanderson, DD, restored; afterwards Bishop of Lincoln (1660)
• William Creed, DD, sometime Fellow of St John's (1661)
• Richard Allestree, DD, Canon of Christ Church (1663)
• William Jane, DD, Canon of Christ Church (1680)
• John Potter, DD, Fellow of Lincoln; Bishop of Oxford; afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury (1707)
• George Rye, DD, sometime Fellow of Oriel; Archdeacon of Oxford (1737)
• John Fanshawe, DD, Student of Christ Church, and Regius Professor of Greek (1741)
• Edward Bentham, DD, Canon of Christ Church (1763)
• Benjamin Wheeler, DD, Fellow of Magdalen (1776)
• John Randolph, DD, Student of Christ Church, Professor of Poetry, and Regius Professor of Greek; Bishop of London; afterwards Bishop of Bangor, then of London (1783)
• Charles Henry Hall, DD, Canon of Christ Church; afterwards Dean (1807)
• William Howley, DD, Canon of Christ Church; afterwards Bishop of London, Archbishop of Canterbury (1809)
• William Van Mildert, DD, Queen's; afterwards Bishop of Llandaff and Dean of St Paul's, Bishop of Durham (1813)
• Frodsham Hodson, DD, Principal of Brasenose (1820)
• Charles Lloyd, Student of Christ Church; Bishop of Oxford (1822)
• Edward Burton, DD, Student of Christ Church (1829)
• Renn Dickson Hampden, DD, Principal of St Mary Hall; afterwards Bishop of Hereford (1836)
• William Jacobson, MA, Vice-Principal of Magdalen Hall and Public Orator, sometime Fellow of Exeter; DD, afterwards Bishop of Chester (1848)
• Robert Payne Smith, MA, Pembroke; DD; afterwards Dean of Canterbury (1865)
• James Bowling Mozley, BD, sometime Fellow of Magdalen; DD (1871)
• William Ince, MA, Fellow of Exeter; DD; Canon of Christ Church (1878)
• Henry Scott Holland, MA, Hon DLitt, sometime Student of Christ Church; DD; Canon of Christ Church (1911)
• Arthur Cayley Headlam, DD, sometime Fellow of All Souls; Canon of Christ Church (1918)
• Henry Leighton Goudge, DD, Canon of Christ Church (1923)
• Oliver Chase Quick, MA, Canon of Christ Church; afterwards DD (1939)
• Leonard Hodgson, DD, Canon of Christ Church (1944)
• Henry Chadwick, DD, Canon of Christ Church (MusB, DD Camb; Hon DD Glas) (1959)
• Maurice Wiles, DD, Canon of Christ Church (BD, MA Camb) (1970)
• Keith Ward, BLitt, MA, Canon of Christ Church (BA Wales; MA Camb) (1991)
• Marilyn McCord Adams, AB Illinois; PhD Cornell; Th M Princeton Theological Seminary; Canon of Christ Church (2004)
• Graham Ward (Position due to take effect from 1 October 2012)

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

• See also: Theology Faculty of the University of Oxford