The Ely Professorship of Divinity was one of the professorships in

divinity Divinity or the divine are things that are either related to, devoted to, or proceeding from a deity.divine< ...

at the

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

. Originally part of the Regius Professorship of Greek, it was detached in 1889 and funded by the canonry of

Ely Ely or ELY may refer to: Places Ireland * Éile, a medieval kingdom commonly anglicised Ely * Ely Place, Dublin, a street United Kingdom * Ely, Cambridgeshire, a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, England ** Ely Cathedral ** Ely Rural District, a ...

, but has since been suppressed. The professors holding this chair were thus made residentiary canons of Ely Cathedral.

Ely Professors

Memorial to John Martin Creed in Ely Cathedral

* Vincent Henry Stanton (1889) * Alan England Brooke (1916) *

John Martin Creed John Martin Creed, FBA (14 October 1889 – 17 February 1940) was an English theologian and clergyman. The son of a vicar, he was educated at Wyggeston Grammar School in Leicester and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (graduating in 1912). ...

(1926) * John Sandwith Boys Smith (1940) * William Telfer (1944) * Edward Craddock Ratcliffe (1947) *

Stanley Lawrence Greenslade Stanley Lawrence Greenslade, FBA (14 May 1905 – 8 December 1977) was an English theologian, ecclesiastical historian and clergyman. He held the Regius Professorship of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Oxford from 1959 to 1972. Early ...

(1958) * G.W.H. Lampe (1960) * George Christopher Stead (1971)

References

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