[1] In 1842 Hussey gave up his college duties on his appointment to the newly founded regius professorship of ecclesiastical history.
He was subsequently appointed rural dean by Bishop Samuel Wilberforce, and was elected one of the proctors in convocation for the diocese of Oxford.
To the dean and chapter of Christ Church he bequeathed the ecclesiastical history and patristic theology works of his library, for the use of his successors in the chair.
[1] For the benefit of his students, Hussey edited the histories of Socrates of Constantinople (1844), Evagrius Scholasticus (1844), Bede (1846), and Sozomen (3 vols.
In 1851, at the time of Universalis Ecclesiae he published a manual on The Rise of the Papal Power traced in Three Lectures (reissued, with additions, in 1863).
His eldest sister, Charlotte Sutherland, gave to the Bodleian Library in 1837 a large collection of historical prints and drawings.