Henry James (Regius Professor)

Henry James (died 12 March 1717) was an English clergyman and academic at the University of Cambridge, who served as President of Queens' College, Cambridge 1675–1717 and Regius Professor of Divinity 1699–1717.

[3] He served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge 1683–4 and 1696–9, was appointed Regius Professor of Divinity in 1699.

[2] As Regius Professor, he presided over the doctoral disputation in 1710 of Samuel Clarke as examiner.

He paid light-hearted tribute to a virtuosic performance by Clarke, turning the traditional Latin saying for termination against himself as name me probe exercuisti (you have exercised me enough); and suggested he might as well retire from the chair.

[2] He was also Rector of Somersham, Chaplain to King Charles II,[3] and was appointed to prebends at York Minster in 1687 and Canterbury Cathedral in 1705.