Ely Cathedral Canonries Act, 1940
CHAPTER vi. An Act to disannex from the Regius Professorship of Divinity in the University of Cambridge the Ely Canonry now annexed thereto and for other purposes. [25th April 1940.] WHEREAS by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act 1840 (sections 2 and 12) it was enacted (inter alia) that the number of canons in the chapter of the cathedral church of Ely should be six and that two canonries should be permanently annexed and united to the Regius Professorships of Hebrew and Greek respectively i...