William Jacobson, MA, Vice-Principal of Magdalen Hall and Public Orator, sometime Fellow of Exeter; DD, afterwards Bishop of Chester (1848) Robert Payne Smith, MA, Pembroke; DD; afterwards Dean of Canterbury (1865) James Bowling Mozley, BD, sometime Fellow of Magdalen; DD (1871) William Ince, MA, Fellow of Exeter; DD; Canon of Christ Church (1878) Henry Scott Holland, MA, Hon DLitt, sometime Student of Christ Church; DD; Canon of Christ Church (1911) Arthur Cayley Headlam, DD, sometime Fellow of All Souls; Canon of Christ Church (1918) Henry Leighton Goudge, DD, Canon of Christ Church (1923) Oliver Chase Quick, MA, Canon of Christ Church; afterwards DD (1939) Leonard Hodgson, DD, Canon of Christ Church (1944) Henry Chadwick, DD, Canon of Christ Church (MusB, DD Cantab.; Hon DD Glas) (1959) Maurice Wiles, DD, Canon of Christ Church (BD, MA Cantab.) (1970) Keith Ward, BLitt, MA, DD, Canon of Christ Church (BA Wales; MA Cantab.; DD Oxon.; DD Cantab.; HonDD Glas) (1991) Marilyn McCord Adams, AB Illinois; PhD Cornell; Th M Princeton Theological Seminary; Canon of Christ Church (2004) Graham Ward Canon of Christ Church (MA, PhD Cantab.) (2012–present) (Sources: Oxford Historical Register 1200-1900 and supplements; and the Oxford University Calendar) See also: Theology Faculty of the University of Oxford Professors at Cambridge Edward Wigan, alias Guy (1540) John Madew (c.1545) Martin Bucer (1550) In 1553 Archbishop Thomas Cranmer offered the Regius Chair to Philip Melanchthon, who declined the offer John Young (1555) Thomas Sedgwick (1557) James Pilkington (1559) Leonard Pilkington (1561) Matthew Hutton (1562) John Whitgift (1567) William Chaderton (1569) William Whitaker (1580) John Overall (1596) John Richardson (1606) Samuel Collins (1617) John Arrowsmith (1651) Anthony Tuckney (1656) Peter Gunning (1661) Joseph Beaumont (1674) Henry James (1700) Richard Bentley (1717) John Whalley (1742) John Green (?) Thomas Rutherforth (1745) Richard Watson (1771) John Kaye (1816) Thomas Turton (1827) Alfred Ollivant (1843) James Amiraux Jeremie (1850) Brooke Foss Westcott (1870) Henry Barclay Swete (1890) Vincent Henry Stanton (1916) Alexander Nairne (1922) Charles Earle Raven (1932) Arthur Michael Ramsey (1950) John Burnaby (1952) Edward Craddock Ratcliffe (1958) Dennis Eric Nineham (1964) Geoffrey Hugo Lampe (1971) Henry Chadwick (1979) Stephen Sykes (1985) David Frank Ford (1991) Ian Alexander McFarland (2015) David Fergusson (2021) Professors at Dublin The Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Dublin was established in 1607 as the "Professor of Theological Controversies". The endowment was increased in 1674 by letters patent of Charles