The Dixie Professorship of Ecclesiastical History is one of the senior

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at the

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in the 16th century, Sir

Wolstan Dixie Sir Wolstan Dixie (1524/1525 – 1594) was an English merchant and administrator, and Lord Mayor of London in 1585. Life He was the son of Thomas Dixie and Anne Jephson, who lived at Catworth in Huntingdonshire. Wolstan was the fourth son ...

, left funds to found both scholarships and fellowships at

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. In 1878 the fellowships were abolished and replaced by the professorship that still bears his name.

Dixie Professors

Mandell Creighton Mandell Creighton (; 5 July 1843 – 14 January 1901) was a British historian and a bishop of the Church of England. A scholar of the Renaissance papacy, Creighton was the first occupant of the Dixie Chair of Ecclesiastical History at the ...

(1884) *

Henry Melvill Gwatkin Henry Melvill Gwatkin (30 July 1844 – 14 November 1916) was an England, English theologian and church historian. Gwatkin was born at Barrow-on-Soar, Leicestershire, the youngest son of the Rev. Richard Gwatkin,"Gwatkin, Henry Melvill" in ''A ...

(1891-1912) *

James Pounder Whitney James Pounder Whitney (30 November 1857, in Marsden, West Yorkshire – 17 June 1939, in Cambridge) was a British ecclesiastical historian. Educated at King James's Grammar School, Almondbury and Owens College, Manchester, he was a foundation scho ...

(1919-1939) *

Norman Sykes FBA Norman Sykes (17 May 1897– 20 March 1961) was a priest in Anglican orders and a distinguished ecclesiastical historian, sometime Professor of History, Westfield College, London, sometime Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford and Dixie Profes ...

(1944) *

William Owen Chadwick William Owen Chadwick (20 May 1916 – 17 July 2015) was a British Anglican priest, academic, rugby international,Ernest Gordon Rupp Ernest Gordon Rupp (1910–1986) was a Methodist preacher, historian and Luther scholar. Early life and education Rupp was born on 7 January 1910 in London and attended Owen's School in Islington. He studied history at King's College London ...

(1968) * Christopher Nugent Lawrence Brooke (1977) * Jonathan Simon Christopher Riley-Smith (1994) * David James Maxwell (2011)

References

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