The Professor of Divinity at Gresham College

Gresham College

Gresham College is an institution of higher learning located at Barnard's Inn Hall off Holborn in central London, England. It was founded in 1597 under the will of Sir Thomas Gresham and today it hosts over 140 free public lectures every year within the City of London.-History:Sir Thomas Gresham,...

, London, gives free educational lectures to the general public. The college was founded for this purpose in 1596/7, when it appointed seven professors; this has since increased to eight and in addition the college now has visiting professors.

The Professor of Divinity is always appointed by the City of London Corporation.

(Years given as, say, 1596/7 refer to Old Style and New Style dates

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1	Anthony Wotton Anthony Wotton Anthony Wotton was an English clergyman and controversialist, of Puritan views. He was the first Gresham Professor of Divinity. Christopher Hill describes him as a Modernist and Ramist.-Life:...	March 1596/97
2	Hugo Gray	1599
3	William Dakins William Dakins William Dakins was an English academic and clergyman, Gresham Professor of Divinity and one of the translators of the King James Bible.-Life:...	14 July 1604
4	George Mountayne	4 March 1606/07
5	William Osbolston	13 December 1610
6	Samuel Brooke Samuel Brooke Dr Samuel Brooke was a Gresham Professor of Divinity , a playwright, the chaplain of Trinity College, Cambridge and subsequently the Master of Trinity . He was known to be an Arminian and anti-Calvinist...	26 September 1612
7	Richard Holdsworth Richard Holdsworth Richard Holdsworth was an English academic theologian, and Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge from 1637 to 1643...	28 November 1629
8	Thomas Horton Thomas Horton (Gresham College) Thomas Horton D.D. was an English clergyman, Professor of Divinity at Gresham College in London, and President of Queens' College, Cambridge.-Life:...	26 October 1641
9	George Gifford	7 June 1661
10	Henry Wells	2 July 1686
11	Edward Lany	31 July 1691
12	John Bridgen	25 September 1728
13	B Halifax	20 February 1760
14	H J Parker	7 February 1800
15	John William Burgon John William Burgon John William Burgon was an English Anglican divine who became the Dean of Chichester Cathedral in 1876. He is remembered for his passionate defence of the historicity and Mosaic authorship of Genesis and of Biblical inerrancy in general.-Biography:Burgon was born at Smyrna, the son of an English...	11 December 1867
16	H E J Bevan	12 December 1888
17	W H Thompson	14 March 1904
1939–45 Lectures in abeyance
18	Henry Martyn Sanders	29 May 1946
19	Oscar Hardman	1957
20	Gordon Huelin	1962
21	Gordon Phillips	1967
22	Gordon Reginald Dunstan	1969
23	Gordon Phillips	1971
24	Ulrich E Simon	1973
25	Viscount Combermere Viscount Combermere Viscount Combermere, of Bhurtpore in the East Indies and of Combermere in the County Palatine of Chester, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1827 for the prominent military commander Stapleton Stapleton-Cotton, 1st Baron Combermere...	1975
26	Richard Chartres Richard Chartres Richard John Carew Chartres KCVO FSA is the current Bishop of London, a position he has held since 1995. Before this appointment, he was Bishop of Stepney and Gresham Professor of Divinity .-Early life:... , Bishop of London	1987
27	John Bowker John Bowker John Westerdale Bowker is a professor of religious studies who has taught at the universities of Cambridge, Lancaster, Pennsylvania and North Carolina State University...	1 September 1992
28	Richard Holloway Richard Holloway Richard F. Holloway is a Scottish writer and broadcaster and was formerly Bishop of Edinburgh in the Scottish Episcopal Church.... , Bishop of Edinburgh	1 September 1997
29	Gwen Griffith-Dickson	1 September 2001
30	Keith Ward Keith Ward Keith Ward is a British cleric, philosopher, theologian and scholar. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and an ordained priest of the Church of England. He was a canon of Christ Church, Oxford until 2003...  DD FBA	1 September 2004
31	Richard Harries, Baron Harries of Pentregarth	1 September 2008