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Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ6470401 ↗
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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.

List of chair holders

See also

Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge

List of professorships at the University of Oxford

Notes

References

Aston, T. H. The History of the University of Oxford. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.

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