Both chairs were founded by Henry VIII . The Cambridge chair had a stipend of £40 per year, later increased by James I with the rectory of Somersham , Cambridgeshire.
- Richard Smyth , DD, Fellow of Merton, and Principal of St Alban Hall (1535)
- Peter Martyr , DD, of the University of Padua, Canon of Christ Church (1548)
- Richard Smyth again; Canon of Christ Church (1554)
- Joannes Fraterculus (a spaniard), BD, Divinity Reader of Magdalen College (1556)
- Richard Smyth again (1559)
- Lawrence Humphrey , MA, Fellow, afterwards President, of Magdalen; DD (1560)
- Thomas Holland , DD, Fellow of Balliol; Rector of Exeter (1589)
- Robert Abbot , DD, Master of Balliol; afterwards Bishop of Salisbury (1612)
- John Prideaux , DD, Rector of Exeter; afterwards Bishop of Worcester (1615)
- Robert Sanderson , DD, sometime Fellow of Lincoln (1642)
- Robert Crosse , BD, Fellow of Lincoln (1648)
- Joshua Hoyle , DD, Master of University (1648)
- John Conant , DD, Rector of Exeter (1654)
- Robert Sanderson , DD, restored; afterwards Bishop of Lincoln (1660)
- William Creed , DD, sometime Fellow of St John's (1661)
- Richard Allestree , DD, Canon of Christ Church (1663)
- William Jane , DD, Canon of Christ Church (1680)
- John Potter , DD, Fellow of Lincoln; Bishop of Oxford; afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury (1707)
- George Rye , DD, sometime Fellow of Oriel; Archdeacon of Oxford (1737)
- John Fanshawe , DD, Student of Christ Church, and Regius Professor of Greek (1741)
- Edward Bentham , DD, Canon of Christ Church (1763)
- Benjamin Wheeler , DD, Fellow of Magdalen (1776)
- John Randolph , DD, Student of Christ Church, Professor of Poetry, and Regius Professor of Greek; Bishop of London; afterwards Bishop of Bangor, then of London (1783)
- Charles Henry Hall , DD, Canon of Christ Church; afterwards Dean (1807)
- William Howley , DD, Canon of Christ Church; afterwards Bishop of London, Archbishop of Canterbury (1809)
- William Van Mildert , DD, Queen's; afterwards Bishop of Llandaff and Dean of St Paul's, Bishop of Durham (1813)
- Frodsham Hodson , DD, Principal of Brasenose (1820)
- Charles Lloyd , Student of Christ Church; Bishop of Oxford (1822)
- Edward Burton , DD, Student of Christ Church (1829)
- Renn Dickson Hampden , DD, Principal of St Mary Hall; afterwards Bishop of Hereford (1836)
- 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 Mozely , 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 Camb; Hon DD Glas) (1959)
- Maurice Wiles , DD, Canon of Christ Church (BD, MA Camb) (1970)
- Keith Ward , BLitt, MA, Canon of Christ Church (BA Wales; MA Camb) (1991)
- Marilyn McCord Adams , AB Illinois; PhD Cornell; Th M Princeton Theological Seminary; Canon of Christ Church (2004)
(Sources: ''Oxford Historical Register 1200-1900'' and supplements; and the ''Oxford University Calendar'')
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