The Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity is the oldest professorship at the University of Cambridge. It was founded initially as a readership by Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII, in 1502.
There is also a Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford.
Read more about Lady Margaret's Professor Of Divinity: List of Lady Margaret Professors of Divinity
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