List of chancellors of the University of Oxford
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Cartoon of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington in the robes of the Chancellor of the University of Oxford. Punning on his military past and the Doctor of Canon Law degree, the caption calls him "a great doctor of cannon law."
This is a list of chancellors of the University of Oxford in England by year of appointment.[1][2][3]
Chronological list[]
Year | Chancellor |
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1224 | Robert Grosseteste (Master of the School of Oxford since 1208) |
1231 | Ralph Cole (surname queried) |
1231 | Ralph of Maidstone[4] |
1231 | Richard Batchden |
1233 | Ralph Cole |
1238 | Simon de Bovill |
1239 | John de Rygater |
1240 | Richard of Chichester |
1240 | Ralph de Heyham |
1244 | Simon de Bovill |
1246 | Gilbert de Biham |
1252 | Ralph de Sempringham |
1255 | William de Lodelawe |
1256 | Richard de S. Agatha |
1262 | Thomas de Cantilupe |
1264 | Henry de Cicestre ? |
1267 | Nicholas de Ewelme |
1269 | Thomas Bek |
1273 | William de Bosco |
1276 | Eustace de Normanville |
1280 | John de Pontissara / John of Pontoise (Bishop of Winchester) |
1280 | Henry de Stanton |
1282 | William de Montfort |
1283 | Roger de Rowell or Rodwell or Rodewell |
1284 | William Pikerell |
1285 | Hervey de Saham |
1288 | Robert Winchelsey |
1289 | William de Kingescote |
1290 | John de Ludlow |
1290 | John of Monmouth (afterwards Bishop of Llandaff) |
1291 | Simon of Ghent (afterwards Bishop of Salisbury) |
1292 | Henry Swayne ? |
1293 | Roger de Martival (afterwards Bishop of Salisbury) |
1294 | Peter de Medburn |
1294 | Roger de Weseham |
1297 | Richard de Clyve |
1300 | James de Cobeham |
1302 | Walter de Wetheringsete |
1304 | Simon de Faversham |
1306 | Walter Burdun |
1308 | William de Bosco |
1309 | Henry de Maunsfeld |
1311 | Walter Giffard |
1311 | Henry de Maunsfeld |
1313 | Henry Harclay |
1316 | Richard de Nottingham ? |
1317 | John Lutterell |
1322 | Henry Gower (afterwards Bishop of St David's) |
1324 | William de Alburwyke |
1326 | Thomas Hotham |
1328 | Ralph of Shrewsbury |
1329 | Roger de Streton |
1330 | Nigel de Wavere |
1332 | Ralph Radyn |
1334 | Hugh de Willoughby |
1335 | Robert de Stratford (later Bishop of Chichester, Lord High Chancellor of England) |
1338 | Robert Paynink ? |
1338 | John Leech |
1339 | William de Skelton |
1341 | Walter de Scauren |
1341 | William de Bergeveney |
1345 | John de Northwode |
1349 | William de Hawkesworth |
1350 | William de Palmorna (1350–1351) |
1354 | Humphrey de Cherlton |
1357 | Lewis Charlton ? |
1357 | John de Hotham |
1358 | John Renham or Reigham |
1359 | John de Hotham |
1360 | Richard Fitz Ralph ? |
1360 | Nicholas de Aston |
1363 | John de Renham |
1363 | John de Echingham or Hethingham |
1366 | Adam de Toneworth |
1367 | William Courtney (afterwards Bishop of Hereford, London, Canterbury) |
1369 | Adam de Toneworth |
1371 | William de Heytisbury |
1372 | William de Remmyngton |
1373 | William de Wylton |
1376 | John Turke |
1377 | Adam de Toneworth |
1379 | Robert Aylesham |
1379 | William Berton |
1381 | Robert Rygge or Rugge |
1382 | William Berton |
1382 | Robert Rygge |
1382 | Nicholas Hereford |
1382 | William Rugge ? |
1383 | Robert Rygge |
1388 | Thomas Brightwell |
1390 | Thomas Cranley (afterwards Archbishop of Dublin) |
1391 | Robert Rygge |
1392 | Ralph Redruth |
1393 | Thomas Prestbury |
1394 | Robert Arlyngton |
1395 | Thomas Hyndeman |
1397 | Philip Repyngdon (afterwards Bishop of Lincoln) |
1397 | Henry Beaufort (afterwards Bishop of Lincoln and Winchester) |
1399 | Thomas Hyndeman |
1400 | Philip Repyngdon |
1403 | Robert Alum or Hallam (afterwards Bishop of Salisbury) |
1407 | Richard Courtenay |
1407 | Richard Ullerston |
1408 | William Clynt |
1409 | Thomas Prestbury |
1410 | William Sulburge |
1411 | Richard Courtenay |
1412 | William Sulburge |
1412 | Richard Courtenay |
1413 | William Sulburge |
1413 | William Barrow (afterwards Bishop of Bangor and of Carlisle)[5] |
1414 | Richard Snetisham |
1415 | William Barrow |
1416 | Thomas Clare |
1416 | William Barrow |
1417 | Thomas Clare |
1417 | Walter Treugof |
1419 | Robert Colman |
1419 | Walter Treugof |
1420 | Thomas Rodborne |
1420 | Walter Treugof |
1421 | John Castell |
1426 | Thomas Chase (afterwards Chancellor of Ireland) |
1431 | Gilbert Kymer |
1433 | Thomas Bourchier (Archbishop of Canterbury) |
1437 | John Carpenter |
1438 | Richard Praty or Pratty ? |
1439 | John Norton |
1440 | Richard Roderham |
1440 | William Grey (afterwards Bishop of Ely) |
1442 | Thomas Gascoigne |
1442 | Henry Sever |
1443 | Thomas Gascoigne |
1445 | Robert Thwaits |
1446 | Gilbert Kymer |
1453 | George Neville (afterwards Bishop of Exeter and York; Chancellor of England) |
1457 | Thomas Chaundeler |
1461 | George Neville |
1472 | Thomas Chaundeler |
1479 | Lionel Woodville (afterwards Bishop of Salisbury) |
1483 | William Dudley |
1483 | John Russell |
1494 | John Morton (while also Archbishop of Canterbury and Chancellor of England) |
1500 | William Smyth |
1502 | Richard Mayew (Bishop of Hereford) |
1506 | William Warham |
1532 | John Longland (Bishop of Lincoln) |
1547 | Richard Cox |
1552 | John Mason |
1556 | Cardinal Reginald Pole (Archbishop of Canterbury) |
1558 | Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel |
1559 | John Mason |
1564 | Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester |
1585 | Sir Thomas Bromley, deputising for Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester) |
1588 | Sir Christopher Hatton |
1591 | Thomas Sackville, 1st Baron Buckhurst (Earl of Dorset from 1604) |
1608 | Richard Bancroft |
1610 | Thomas Egerton, 1st Baron Ellesmere (Viscount Brackley from 1616) |
1616 | William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke |
1630 | William Laud |
1641 | Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke |
1643 | William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset |
1648 | Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke (to his death on 23 January 1649) |
1649 | Vacant |
1650 | Oliver Cromwell |
1657 | Richard Cromwell |
1660 | William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset, reinstated after the Restoration |
1660 | Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon |
1667 | Gilbert Sheldon |
1669 | James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde |
1688 | James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde |
1715 | Charles Butler, 1st Earl of Arran |
1759 | John Fane, 7th Earl of Westmorland |
1762 | George Lee, 3rd Earl of Lichfield |
1772 | Frederick North, Lord North (Earl of Guilford from 1790) |
1792 | William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland |
1809 | William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville |
1834 | Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington |
1852 | Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby |
1869 | Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury |
1903 | George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen[6][7] |
1907 | George Curzon, 1st Baron Curzon of Kedleston (Earl Curzon of Kedleston from 1911; Marquess Curzon of Kedleston from 1921) |
1925 | George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave;[8][9] see University of Oxford Chancellor election, 1925 |
1928 | Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon |
1933 | E. F. L. Wood, 1st Baron Irwin (Viscount Halifax from 1934; Earl of Halifax from 1944) (1933–1959) |
1960 | Harold Macmillan (Earl of Stockton from 1984) (1960–1986); see University of Oxford Chancellor election, 1960 |
1987 | Roy Jenkins[10] (Baron Jenkins of Hillhead from 1987) (1987–2003); see University of Oxford Chancellor election, 1987 |
2003 | Chris Patten (Baron Patten of Barnes from 2005) (2003–); see University of Oxford Chancellor election, 2003 |
See also[]
- List of vice-chancellors of the University of Oxford
- List of University of Oxford people
- List of chancellors of the University of Cambridge
- List of chancellors of the University of London
References[]
- ^ The Historical Register of the University of Oxford. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1900.
- ^ Hibbert, Christopher, ed. (1988). "Appendix 5: Chancellors of the University". The Encyclopaedia of Oxford. Macmillan. pp. 521–522. ISBN 0-333-39917-X.
- ^ Wood, Anthony (1790). "Fasti Oxonienses". The History and Antiquities of the Colleges and Halls in the University of Oxford. Google Books.
- ^ British History Online Deans of Hereford. Accessed on 26 October 2007.
- ^ Ebenezer Josiah Newell, A history of the Welsh church to the dissolution of the monasteries (1895).
- ^ Strickland Gibson (1954). The Victoria History of the County of Oxford Volume Three - the University of Oxford. University of London Institute of Historical Research. pp. 38–39.
- ^ Roy Jenkins (1998). The Chancellors. Macmillan Publishers. p. 87.
- ^ Legg, Thomas S.; Legg, Marie-Louise (September 2004). "Cave, George, Viscount Cave (1856–1928)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 30 July 2007.
- ^ "Oxford's Chancellorship". TIME. TIME. 13 July 1925. Archived from the original on 19 February 2012. Retrieved 30 July 2007.
- ^ "Jenkins wins the Oxford vote". The Times. 15 March 1987.
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