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The coat of arms of the University of Oxford. This is a list of professorships at the University of Oxford. During the early history of the university, the title of professor meant a doctor who taught. From the 16th century, it was used for those holding a professorship, also known as a chair.
University of Oxford portal; Statutory Professors is the title the University of Oxford uses for its University Professorships. There are currently just over 200 of them. A number of them are permanently endowed, others are not.
University of Oxford portal; This category contains the professorships at the University of Oxford, England. For the holders of the chairs themselves, see Category:Statutory Professors of the University of Oxford.
This is a list of people from the University of Oxford in academic disciplines. Many were students at one (or more) of the colleges of the university, and others held fellowships at a college. This list forms part of a series of lists of people associated with the University of Oxford; for other lists, please see the main article List of ...
The Regius Chair of Civil Law at Oxford was founded by King Henry VIII, who established five such Regius Professorships in the University, the others being the chairs of Divinity, Physic (Old English for Medicine), Hebrew and Greek. [1] The stipend attached to the position was then forty pounds a year. [2]
The Dr Lee's Professorships are three named statutory professorships of the University of Oxford. They were created in 1919, and are named after Matthew Lee (1695–1755) who had endowed three readerships at Christ Church, Oxford , in the 19th century.
The Waynflete Professorships are four professorial fellowships at the University of Oxford endowed by Magdalen College and named in honour of the college founder William of Waynflete, who had a great interest in science. These professorships are statutory professorships of the University, that is, they are professorships established in the ...
The Lady Margaret Professorship of Divinity is a senior professorship in Christ Church of the University of Oxford. The professorship was founded from the benefaction of Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443–1509), mother of Henry VII. Its holders were all priests until 2015, when Carol Harrison, a lay theologian, was appointed to the chair. [1]