Regius Professor of Divinity (Dublin)

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The Regius Professor of Divinity is a 1761 by King George III. Endowed Regius Professorship in Theology at Trinity College, Dublin . The chair itself existed since 1607 (1600).

History of the professorship

Theology has been taught in Dublin since Elizabeth I founded the college in 1592 .

In 1607 a permanent professorship in theology was established, the Professor of Theological Controversies . The title was later changed to Publicke Professour of Divinity . In the statutes of Charles I , the professorship is referred to as Professor Publicus Theologiae . However, there was no written instruction for teaching until King Charles II had the instruction included in the university statutes in 1674. In 1761 King George III. the professorship in a Regius professorship. The first incumbent was Brabazon Disney , who had held the chair since 1759.

In 1761 the chair was made subject to official rules. Previously, it was not necessary for the incumbent to be a fellow of the college or, conversely, for him to lose the professorship if the fellowship was abandoned. The statutes of 1761 made it clear that the professor had to be elected by the senior fellows and that the fellowship had to give up immediately after the election. In addition, the statutes regulated the frequency of lectures and the subject areas.

In 1814, annual two-day exams for students were introduced in November. More importantly, the professor no longer had to be elected by the college's fellows.

Official

Professor of Divinity

Surname name suffix from to annotation
Luke Challoner 1591
James Ussher BA 1607 1621 In 1621 Usher was made Bishop of Meath and in 1625 Archbishop of Armagh . From 1634 he was also Primate of Ireland in the latter capacity. His best known legacy is his calculation of how the earth was created in 4004 BC.
Samuel Ward BD 1621 1623 Ward is originally from Ipswich .
Joshua Hoyle 1623 1648 Hoyle took over the Regius Professur of Divinity at the University of Oxford in 1648 and headed the University College .
vacant 1648 1662 From 1649 to 1660 the Commonwealth of England prevented the appointment of a new professor.
Richard Lyngard DD 1662 1670 The honorary title Doctor Divinity (DD) of Oxford University for Lyngard (also Lingard) is in doubt.
Michael Ward DD 1670 1678 Ward left the professorship when he was called to be Bishop of Ossory in 1678 . In 1681 he became Bishop of Derry .
William Palliser DD 1678 1692 In 1692 Palliser became Bishop of Cloyne and in 1694 Archbishop of Cashel .
George Browne DD 1695 1699
Owen Lloyd DD 1699
Richard Baldwin DD 1714 Baldwin made a will of £ 80,000 to the college. The will was challenged and a 62-year lawsuit was ultimately ruled in favor of colleges. The background to this story was that no one had any knowledge of Baldwin's origins. According to the plaintiffs, he was the son of James Baldwin from Parkhill, near Colne . There he is said to have killed a comrade while at school, which meant he had to leave England and received a scholarship there in 1686.
Claudius Gilbert DD 1722 When a rector position (administrative office) became vacant in the formerly important bishopric of Ardstraw, Gilbert left the professorship. In his will, Gilbert left about 13,000 books in his private library at the university library. However, there were no particularly valuable or rare volumes in the catalog.
Henry Clarke DD 1743
John Pellisier DD 1746
John Lawson DD 1753 Jan. 9, 1759 Lawson held the professorship until his death.
Brabazon Disney DD, FTCD 1759 see under Regius Professors;

Regius professors

Surname name suffix from to annotation
Brabazon Disney DD, FTCD 1761 Disney left the professorship to work as Rector in Ardee, later in Kilmore and then as Chancellor in Armagh.
James Drought DD, SFTCD 1790 1819 From 1800 Richard Graves supported the incumbent as a deputy professor.
Richard J. Graves DD 1819 1829 The son of the future dean of Ardagh married the daughter of his predecessor Drought.
Charles Richard Elrington DD 1829 1850 The son of Thomas Elrington , Bishop of Leighlin and Ferns, was privately tutored until he was enrolled at Trinity College in 1800. He excelled in mathematics and Hebrew and enjoyed a rapid academic career, being ordained a fellow of the college in 1810 and a priest in 1812. In 1829 he gave up his college fellowship and became a Regius Professor. In addition to the professorship, he held other offices, in 1832 as pastor of Edermine in the Diocese of Ferns. Shortly afterwards he gave up the parish to become chancellor of the diocese. In 1840 he gave up the firm to take over the parish of Loughgilly, Diocese of Armagh.
Joseph Henderson Singer DD 1850 1852 In 1852 Singer was called to be Bishop of Meath.
Samuel Butcher DD 1852 1866 In 1866 Butcher was made Bishop of Meath.
George Salmon MA, BD, DD, DCL, LL.D., DD Edinburgh, D.Math. (Christiana), FRS, FRSE 1866 1888 Salmon was mainly concerned with mathematics , but in 1845 he was also assigned as a theology lecturer. As a result, he taught both subjects. His work on conic sections , first published in 1847 , made him known to a wide audience. The sixth edition of the work was printed in 1879. In addition to his remarkable mathematical career, Salmon also achieved great goals as a theologian. He played an important role in the re-establishment of the Church of Ireland after its dissolution in 1870.
John Gwynn DD 1888 1917
Alan Hugh McNeile 1917 1930
Newport John Davis White 1930 1935 From 1907 White acted as deputy Regius Professor.
John Ernest Leonard Oulton DD 1935 1957
Richard Randall Hartford DD 1957 1962
Hugh Frederic Woodhouse MA, DD, FTCD 1963 1982 Born in Ireland, Woodhouse taught for several years in Toronto, Vancouver and Halifax in Canada before he was appointed to the Regius Professorship in 1963. As such, he opened Chapel Hall to all faiths and supported ecumenical projects in Ireland.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c The Dublin University Calendar for the Year 1916–1917 . (PDF) Longmans, Green, and Co., London / New York / Bombay 1917.
  2. ^ A b c d e f g h i William Benjamin Sarsfield Taylor: History of the University of Dublin . T. Cadel, 1845.
  3. ^ A b c Rudolf Walter Leonhardt : A story full of nightmares . In: Die Zeit , No. 20/1992.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l James Thomas O'Brien: An introductory lecture delivered on the first lecture day of Michaelmas term, 1837 . Oxford University, 1838, pp. 59 ff.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad Calendar for the Year 1901 - A Special Supplemental Volume . Vol. II; Hodges, Figgis and Co., 1901; archive.org
  6. ↑ a b c James Ussher - Anglo-Irish prelate. In: Encyclopædia Britannica . (English).
  7. ↑ a b James Ussher ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. westminster-abbey.org; accessed on May 7, 2017.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.westminster-abbey.org
  8. ↑ Alexander Gordon:  Ussher, James . In: Sidney Lee (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 58:  Ubaldini - Wakefield. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1899 (English).
  9. ↑ Elizabethanne Boran: Life of James Ussher. accessed on May 21, 2017.
  10. ↑ Ronald Bayne:  Hoyle, Joshua . In: Sidney Lee (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 28:  Howard - Inglethorpe. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1891 (English).
  11. ↑ a b Lee-Llewellin on British-History.ac.uk; accessed on May 27, 2016.
  12. ↑ Bertha Porter:  Lingard, Richard . In: Sidney Lee (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 33:  Leighton - Lluelyn. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1893 (English).
  13. ^ John Thomas Gilbert:  Palliser, William (1646-1726) . In: Sidney Lee (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 43:  Owens - Passelewe. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1895 (English).
  14. ↑ a b c d e Thomas Finlayson Henderson:  Baldwin, Richard . In: Leslie Stephen (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 3:  Baker - Beadon. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1885 (English).
  15. ^ A b c John Thomas Gilbert (1670-1743):  Gilbert, Claudius . In: Leslie Stephen (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 21:  Garnett - Gloucester. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1890 (English).
  16. ^ A b Gordon Goodwin:  Lawson, John (1712-1759) . In: Sidney Lee (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 32:  Lambe - Leigh. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1892 (English).
  17. ↑ James B. Leslie: History of Kilsaran Union of Parishes in the County of Louth . William Tempest, Dundalx 1908; archive.org .
  18. ↑ a b Rev James Drought. findagrave.com; accessed on May 8, 2017.
  19. ↑ Beaver Henry Blacker:  Graves, Richard (1763-1829) . In: Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (Eds.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 22:  Glover - Gravet. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1890 (English).
  20. ^ The Dublin University Magazine . Volume 19. William Curry, Jun., And Company, 1842.
  21. ↑ a b c d e f g Beaver Henry Blacker:  Elrington, Charles Richard . In: Leslie Stephen (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 17:  Edward - Erskine. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1889 (English).
  22. ↑ Edward Irving Carlyle:  Singer, Joseph Henderson . In: Sidney Lee (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 52:  Shearman - Smirke. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1897 (English).
  23. ↑ George Vere Benson:  Butcher, Samuel . In: Leslie Stephen (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 8:  Burton - Cantwell. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1886 (English).
  24. ↑ a b c d e f John Henry Bernard:  Salmon, George . In: Sidney Lee (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Suppl. 2, Volume 3:  Neil - Young. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1912 (English).
  25. ^ Newport John Davis White ; on prabook.com; accessed on May 4, 2017.
  26. ↑ Richard Randall Hartffort in Oxford Index ( ISBN 978-0-19-954089-1 ).
  27. ^ A b Obituary: The Rev. Hugh Frederic Woodhouse: 1912-2010. In: Anglican Journal , October 15, 2010.
  28. ^ A b Hugh Frederic Woodhouse - Obituary. In: Vancouver Sun , October 15, 2010.