Gresham Professor of Divinity

The Professor of Divinity at Gresham College, 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 ten and in addition the college now has visiting professors.

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

List of Gresham Professors of Divinity

Note, years given as, say, 1596/7 refer to Old Style and New Style dates.

Alister McGrath, former Gresham Professor of Divinity

	Name	Started
1	Anthony Wotton	March 1596/97
2	Hugo Gray	1599
3	William Dakins	14 July 1604
4	George Mountayne	4 March 1606/07
5	William Osbolston	13 December 1610
6	Samuel Brooke	26 September 1612
7	Richard Holdsworth	28 November 1629
8	Thomas Horton	26 October 1641
9	George Gifford	7 June 1661
10	Henry Wells	2 July 1686
11	Edward Lany	31 July 1691
12	John Bridgen[1]	25 September 1728
13	B Halifax	20 February 1760
14	H J Parker	7 February 1800
15	John William Burgon	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[2]	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	1975
26	Richard Chartres, Bishop of London	1987
27	John Bowker	1 September 1992
28	Richard Holloway, Bishop of Edinburgh	1 September 1997
29	Gwen Griffith-Dickson	1 September 2001
30	Keith Ward	1 September 2004
31	Richard Harries, Lord Harries of Pentregarth	1 September 2008
32	Raymond Plant, Lord Plant of Highfield[3]	2012
33	Alister McGrath[4]	2015
32	Alec Ryrie[5]	2018

References

• Gresham College website Texts and video of recent lectures
• Gresham College old website, Internet Archive List of professors

Notes

1. "Bridgen, John (BRGN717J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
2. "Sanders, Henry Martyn (SNDS887HM)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
3. "Gresham College Press Release, 29 June 2012".
4. "Gresham College Press Release, 08 April 2015". Archived from the original on 22 July 2015.
5. "Alec Ryrie appointed to Divinity Professorship at Gresham College". Durham University. 17 May 2018. Retrieved 24 October 2018.

Further reading

• Ward, John (1740). The Lives of the Professors of Gresham College. New York & London: Johnson Reprint Corporation.