Mansfield College, Oxford is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in Oxford, England. The college was founded in Birmingham in 1838 as a college for Nonconformist students. It moved to Oxford in 1886 and was renamed Mansfield College after George Mansfield and his sister Elizabeth. In 1995 a royal charter was awarded giving the institution full college status. The college grounds are located on Mansfield Road, near the centre of Oxford.
Herbert Danby was an Anglican priest and writer who played a central role in the change of attitudes toward Judaism in the first half of the twentieth century.
The Regius Professorships of Divinity are amongst the oldest professorships at the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. A third chair existed for a period at Trinity College Dublin.
Walter William Skeat, was a British philologist and Anglican deacon. The pre-eminent British philologist of his time, he was instrumental in developing the English language as a higher education subject in the United Kingdom.
Christopher Andrew Lewis is a Church of England priest and academic. He was Dean of St Albans from 1994 to 2003 and Dean of Christ Church from 2003 to 2014.
Victor Gilbert Benjamin Griffin was a Church of Ireland (Anglican) priest, theologian and author and a strongly liberal voice in Irish public life.
John Morgan was a Welsh Anglican bishop. He served as Bishop of Swansea and Brecon, as Bishop of Llandaff, and then also as Archbishop of Wales.
Alfred Edward John Rawlinson was an eminent British scholar of divinity and an Anglican bishop. He was the second Bishop of Derby from 1936 until his retirement in 1959.
The Very Revd John Ranulph Vincent was Dean of Bloemfontein, in South Africa, from 1892; and afterwards of Grahamstown, 1912–1914.
Ernest Henry Cornwall Lewis-Crosby was a Church of Ireland (Anglican) priest and author.
Norman McLean was a Scottish Semitic and Biblical scholar. He was born on 2 October 1865 at Lanark, the son of the Rev. Daniel McLean (1826–28), missionary to Jamaica and later minister of the UP church at Lanark, and Grace Whyte Millar of Loanhead (1831–1923). He was educated at the Royal High School and the University of Edinburgh, graduating MA in 1885. He entered Christ's College, Cambridge, taking a First Class Honours degree in Classics (1889) and in the Semitic Languages Tripos (1893). He took the Prize in Biblical Hebrew. In 1894, he became a Fellow and lecturer of Hebrew in Christ's and then a university lecturer in Aramaic (1903–31). He was a Tutor from 1911, and then a Master of Christ's from 1927 to 1936. Ill-health forced him to turn down the Vice-Chancellor's post. Responsible for a number of academic works, he spent forty years working on an edition of the Septuagint.
Walter Hobhouse was an eminent Anglican priest and author in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Mark David Ashcroft is a British retired Anglican bishop. From 2016 until 2023, he was the Bishop of Bolton. He had previously been Archdeacon of Manchester from 2009 to 2016. Apart from ten years working in Kenya, he has spent all his ordained ministry in the Diocese of Manchester, Church of England.
John Awdry Julius (1874–1956) was Dean of Christchurch from 1927 to 1940.
Francis Partridge (b Dursley, Gloucestershire, England 1846 – d Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada 1906) was an Anglican priest in Canada during the last decades of the Nineteenth century and the first of the 20th.
Robert Walsh was an Irish Anglican priest who was the Archdeacon of Dublin from 1909 until his death on 24 February 1917.
George John Howson was an Anglican archdeacon.
Charles Eric Corbett was a clergyman in the Church of England, who was Archdeacon of Liverpool from 1970 to 1979.
Samuel Stanfield Singer was a Scottish episcopal clergyman who was Dean of Glasgow and Galloway from 1974 to 1987.
Arthur Kitchin was Archdeacon of Calcutta from 1903 to 1907.