title: Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism
text: # Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism
  
  The Professorship of Divinity and Biblical Criticism at the University of Glasgow was founded in 1861. The patron was formerly the Crown (i.e. a Regius Professorship). Since 1935, the University Court, acting on the recommendation of a Board of Nomination consisting of representatives of the University Court and of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, appoints the Professor.
  
  ## (Regius) Professors of Divinity and Biblical Criticism
  
  * William Purdie Dickson MA LLD DD (1863)
  * William Stuart MA LLD DD (1873)
  * George Milligan MA DCL DD (1910)
  * George Hogarth Carnaby MacGregor MA DLitt DD (1933)
  * William Barclay CBE MA BD DD (1963)
  * Ernest Best MA BD PhD DD (1974-1982)
  * John Riches MA (1991)
  