The Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity is the oldest professorship at the University of Cambridge. It was founded initially as a readership in divinity by Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII, in 1502. Since its re-endowment at the end of the 20th century, it is now specifically a chair in New Testament and early Christian studies. There is also a Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford.

List of Lady Margaret's Professors

Dates shown are date of election. • 1502 John Fisher • 1504 Thomas Cosyn • 1506 William Burgoyne • 1511 Desiderius Erasmus • 1515 John Fawne • 1521 Thomas Ashley • 1532 William Buckmaster • 1538 John Redman • 1542 William Skete • 1544 Wiliam Glyn • 1549 John Redman • 1554 Thomas Sedgwick (or Segiswycke) • 1556 George Bullock • 1559 Robert Beaumont (or Beamond) • 1561 Matthew Hutton • 1563 John Whitgift • 1567 William Chaderton • 1569 Thomas Cartwright • 1570 John Still • 1573 John Hansome (or Hanson) • 1574 Peter Baro • 1596 Thomas Playfere (or Playford) • 1609 John Davenant • 1623 Samuel Ward • 1643 Richard Holdsworth • 1649 Richard Love • 1661 Peter Gunning • 1661 John Pearson • 1673 Ralph Widdrington • 1688 Humphrey Gower • 1711 Robert Jenkin • 1727 John Newcome • 1765 Zachary Brooke • 1788 John Mainwaring • 1807 Herbert Marsh • 1839 John James Blunt • 1855 William Selwyn • 1875 J. B. Lightfoot • 1879 Charles Swainson • 1887 Fenton John Anthony Hort • 1892 J. Rawson Lumby • 1895 Arthur James Mason • 1903 Alexander Kirkpatrick • 1907 William Ralph Inge • 1911 James Bethune-Baker • 1935 F. S. Marsh • 1951 C. F. D. Moule • 1976 Morna Hooker • 1998 Graham N. Stanton • 2007 Judith M. Lieu • 2018 George van Kooten