The Regius Professorships of Divinity are amongst the oldest professorships at the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. A third chair existed for a period at Trinity College, Dublin. The Oxford and Cambridge chairs were founded by King Henry VIII. The chair at Cambridge originally had a stipend of £40 per year (which is still paid to the incumbent by Trinity College), later increased by James I with the rectory of Somersham, Cambridgeshire. Professors at Oxford Richard Smyth, DD, Fellow of Merton, and Principal of St Alban Hall (1535) Peter Martyr, DD, of the University of Padua, Canon of Christ Church (1548) Richard Smyth again; Canon of Christ Church (1554) Juan de Villagarcia, known as Joannes Fraterculus (a Spanish Dominican), BD, Divinity Reader of Magdalen College (1556) Richard Smyth again (1559) Lawrence Humphrey, MA, Fellow, afterwards President, of Magdalen; DD (1560) Thomas Holland, DD, Fellow of Balliol; Rector of Exeter (1589) Robert Abbot, DD, Master of Balliol; afterwards Bishop of Salisbury (1612) John Prideaux, DD, Rector of Exeter; afterwards Bishop of Worcester (1615) Robert Sanderson, DD, sometime Fellow of Lincoln (1642) Robert Crosse, BD, Fellow of Lincoln (1648) Joshua Hoyle, DD, Master of University (1648) John Conant, DD, Rector of Exeter (1654) Robert Sanderson, DD, restored; afterwards Bishop of Lincoln (1660) William Creed, DD, sometime Fellow of St John's (1661) Richard Allestree, DD, Canon of Christ Church (1663) William Jane, DD, Canon of Christ Church (1680) John Potter, DD, Fellow of Lincoln; Bishop of Oxford; afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury (1707) George Rye, DD, sometime Fellow of Oriel; Archdeacon of Oxford (1737) John Fanshawe, DD, Student of Christ Church, and Regius Professor of Greek (1741) Edward Bentham, DD, Canon of Christ Church (1763) Benjamin Wheeler, DD, Fellow of Magdalen (1776) John Randolph, DD, Student of Christ Church, Professor of Poetry, and Regius Professor of Greek; Bishop of London; afterwards Bishop of Bangor, then of London (1783) Charles Henry Hall, DD, Canon of Christ Church; afterwards Dean (1807) William Howley, DD, Canon of Christ Church; afterwards Bishop of London, Archbishop of Canterbury (1809) William Van Mildert, DD, Queen's; afterwards Bishop of Llandaff and Dean of St Paul's, Bishop of Durham (1813) Frodsham Hodson, DD, Principal of Brasenose (1820) Charles Lloyd, Student of Christ Church; Bishop of Oxford (1822) Edward Burton, DD, Student of Christ Church (1829) Renn Dickson Hampden, DD, Principal of St Mary Hall; afterwards Bishop of Hereford (1836)