The Professor of Divinity at Gresham College, London, gives free educational lectures to the general public. The college was founded for this purpose in 1597, when it created seven professorships; this was later increased to ten. Divinity is one of the original professorships as set out by the will of Thomas Gresham in 1575.[1]
The Professor of Divinity is appointed in partnership with the City of London Corporation.
| Name | Started | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 1596/97[2] | ||
| 2 | 1599 | ||
| 3 | William Dakins | 14 July 1604 | |
| 4 | George Mountayne | 4 March 1606/07 | |
| 5 | 13 December 1610 | ||
| 6 | 26 September 1612 | ||
| 7 | 28 November 1629 | ||
| 8 | 26 October 1641 | ||
| 9 | George Gifford | 7 June 1661 | |
| 10 | Henry Wells | 2 July 1686 | |
| 11 | 31 July 1691 | ||
| 12 | John Bridgen | 25 September 1728 | |
| 13 | B Halifax | 20 February 1760 | |
| 14 | H J Parker | 7 February 1800 | |
| 15 | 11 December 1867 | ||
| 16 | 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 | 1967 | ||
| 22 | Gordon Reginald Dunstan | 1969 | |
| 23 | 1971 | ||
| 24 | Ulrich E Simon | 1973 | |
| 25 | 1975 | ||
| 26 | Richard Chartres, Bishop of London | 1987 | |
| 27 | 1 September 1992 | ||
| 28 | Richard Holloway, Bishop of Edinburgh | 1 September 1997 | |
| 29 | Gwen Griffith-Dickson | 1 September 2001 | |
| 30 | 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 | |
| 33 | Ronald Hutton[6] | 2022 | |