Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity

This article is about the Oxford professorship. Not to be confused with Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity at Cambridge.

The Lady Margaret Professorship of Divinity is a senior professorship in Christ Church of the University of Oxford. The professorship was founded from the benefaction of Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443–1509), mother of Henry VII. Its holders were all priests until 2015, when Carol Harrison, a lay theologian, was appointed to the chair.[1]

  1. ^ "Job Description and Selection Criteria, Lady Margaret Professorship of Divinity, Christ Church, Oxford" (PDF). UK: University of Oxford. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 November 2018. Retrieved 7 December 2013.