List of Deans of Chichester

Chichester Cathedral.

Bishop Ralph is credited with the foundation of the current Chichester Cathedral in Sussex, England. The original structure that had been built by Stigand was largely destroyed by fire in 1114.^[1]

Ralph did not confine his activities just to rebuilding the cathedral, he provided for a more complete constitution of his chapter by also creating the offices of Dean, Precentor, Chancellor and Treasurer.^[2] The function of these four officials was to ensure the proper conduct of church services, the care of the church building and the supervision of subordinates. ^[3] Beneath these four officials were the canons of the cathedral who in the medieval period were about twenty six in number.^[4] The dean would have been elected by the canons, and would have the power to act in administrative matters only with their consent. ^[4] The dean and his staff, however, were subject to the bishop's authority.^[3]

The dean headed the cathedral community and had jurisdiction over all the Chichester city parishes, with the exception of All Saints, which was under the administration of the Archbishop of Canterbury.^[3] The four ancient posts of dean and canons still exist within the cathedral and their functions are similar to their ancient role, although somewhat diminished, as other church organisations have now taken over some of their powers.^[5]

There follows a list of deans of Chichester, from Bishop Ralph's time, to the present, The Very Revd Nicholas Frayling^[6]

Medieval

• 1115 Odo
• 1115 Richard
• 1125 Matthew
• 1144 Richard
• 1150 John de Greneford
• 1176 Jordan de Meleburn
• 1178 Seffride
• 1180 Matthew de Chichester
• 1190 Nicholas de Aquila
• 1197 Seffride
• 1220 Simon de Perigord
• 1230 Walter
• 1232 Thomas de Lichfield
• 1250 Geoffrey
• 1256 Walter de Glocestria
• 1295 Thomas de Berghstede
• 1302 William de Grenefeld
• 1307 John de S. Leophardo
• 1332 Henry de Garland
• 1342 Walter de Segrave
• 1356 William de Lenne
• 1369 Roger de Freton
• 1383 Richard Ie Scrope
• 1389-90 William de Lullyngton

15th Century

• 1400 John de Maydenhith
• 1407 John Haselee
• 1410 Henry Lovel
• 1415 Richard Talbot (Dublin)
• 1420 William Milton
• 1425 Jno. Patten or Waynflete
• 1429 John Crutchere
• 1478 John Waynfleet
• 1481 John Cloos

16th Century

• 1501 John Prychard
• 1504 Geoffrey Symson
• 1508 John Young
• 1526 William Fleshmonger
• 1541 Richard Caurden
• 1549 Giles Eyre
• 1551 Bartholomew Traheron
• 1552 Thomas Sampson
• 1553 William Pye
• 1558 Hugh Turnbull
• 1566 Richard Curteis
• 1570 Anthony Rushe
• 1577 Martin Culpepper

17th Century

• 1601 William Thorne
• 1630 Francis Dee
• 1634-5 Richard Steward
• 1642 George Aglionby (nominal)
• 1646 Bruno Ryves
• 1660 Joseph Henshaw
• 1663 Joseph Gulston
• 1669 Nathaniel, Lord Crew
• 1671 Thomas Lambrook
• 1672 George Stradling
• 1688 Francis Hawkins
• 1699 William Hayley

18th Century

• 1715 Thomas Sherlock
• 1727 John Newey
• 1725-36 Thomas Hayley
• 1739 John Hargraves
• 1741 William Ashburnham
• 1754 Thomas Ball
• 1770 Charles Harward
• 1790 Combe Miller

19th Century

• 1814-24 Christopher Bethell
• 1824 Samuel Slade
• 1830 George Chandler
• 1859-75 Walter Farquhar Hook
• 1876 John William Burgon
• 1888 Francis Pigou^[7]
• 1892 Richard William Randall

20th Century

• 1902 John Julius Hannah
• 1929 Arthur Stuart Duncan-Jones
• 1955 John Walter Atherton Hussey
• 1977 Robert Tinsley Holtby
• 1989 John David Treadgold

21st Century

• 2002 Nicholas Frayling

See also

• Bishop of Chichester
• Archdeacon of Chichester

Notes

1. ^ Stephens. Memorials. p. 47
2. ^ Stephens. Memorials p. 49
3. ^ ^{a b c} Stephens. Memorials p. 323
4. ^ ^{a b} Hobbs. Chichester Cathedral. p. 13
5. ^ Hobbs. Chichester Cathedral. p.292
6. ^ Hennessy. Chichester Diocese. p. 2. For medieval to 1900. // Hobbs. Chichester Cathedral. Appendix A. for 20th century. "Nicholas Frayling". Dean and Chapter of Chichester Cathedral. http://www.chichestercathedral.org.uk/dyn/pages/about-us/whos-who/chapter.shtml.  Cathedral Website for current.
7. ^ Hennessy.Chichester Diocese. p.2. gives the year as 1887. Who Was Who gives the year as 1888 and the Illustrated London News of 1888 gives the date of his induction as 24 November 1888.

References

• http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=36582#s2
• "Chichester Cathedral". Dean and Chapter of Chichester Cathedral. http://www.chichestercathedral.org.uk/dyn/pages/about-us/whos-who/chapter.shtml. Retrieved 22 June 2010. 
• Hennessy, George (1900). Chichester Diocese Clergy Lists: Clergy Succession from the earliest time to the year 1900. London: St Peters Press. 
• Mary Hobbs, ed (1994). Chichester Cathedral: An Historic Survey. Chichester: Phillimore. ISBN 08503309243. 
• Stephens, W.R.W (1876). Memorials of the See of Chichester and Cathedral Church of Chichester. London: Bentley. ISBN 0790564513. 
• "Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn,". Oxford University Press. Dec 2007. http://www.ukwhoswho.com. Retrieved 26 January 2011.  - Subscription required.