The Chair of Ecclesiastical History of the University of Glasgow is the oldest chair of ecclesiastical history in the United Kingdom.

It was founded in 1716 by King George I of Great Britain. The Crown granted 100 pounds per year for this purpose. This was, thus, a Regius Chair until 1935, when constitutional arrangements in the Church of Scotland resulted in patronage being transferred to the University Court acting on a Board of Nomination consisting of representatives of the University Court and the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

List of professors

• William Anderson MA (1721)
• William Rouet MA (1752)
• William Wight MA DD (1778)
• Hugh Macleod MA DD (1809)
• James Seaton Reid MA DD (1841)
• Thomas Thomson Jackson MA DD (1851)
• William Lee MA DD (1874)
• Robert Herbert Story MA DD LLD (1886)
• James Cooper MA DD LittD DCL [1898]
• Archibald Main MA DD DLitt LLD (1922-1942)
• William Dickie Niven MA LLD DD (1946)
• John Foster MA DD (1949)
• William Hugh Clifford Frend TD MA DPhil DD FRSE FBA (1969-1984)
• W. Ian P. Hazlett BA BD DTheo DLitt DD (2002-2010)
• Charlotte Methuen MA BD PhD (2017-)

See also

• List of Professorships at the University of Glasgow

References

• Michael Moss, Moira Rankin and Lesley Richmond, Who, Where and When: the History and Constitution of the University of Glasgow (Glasgow: University of Glasgow, 2001).
• Paul L. Robertson, "The Finances of Glasgow University Before 1914", History of Education Quarterly Winter (1976):449-478