List of Masters of University College, Oxford

The head of University College, Oxford is known as the Master.^[1][2]

University College was founded by William of Durham with a legacy in 1249. The names of early Masters are not known. The earliest surviving College Register starts from 1509 and dates before that are uncertain.

• Roger de Aswardby (fl. 1353–62)
• William Kexby (fl. 1376–79)
• Thomas Foston (1393–96)
• Thomas Duffield (1396–98)
• Edmund Lacy (1398–c.1401)
• John Appleton (c.1401–08)
• John Castell (c.1408–20)
• Robert Burton (1420–23/4)
• Richard Witton (1423/4–28)
• Thomas Benwell (1428–41)
• John Martyn (1441–73)
• William Gregford (1473–87/8)
• John Roxborough (1487/8–1509)
• Ralph Hamsterley (1509–18)
• Leonard Hutchinson (1518–46)
• John Crayford (1546–47)
• Richard Salveyn (1547–51)
• George Ellison (1551–57)
• Anthony Salveyn (1557–58)
• James Dugdale (1558–61)
• Thomas Caius (1561–72)
• William James (1572–84)
• Anthony Gate (1584–97)
• George Abbot (1597–1610)
• John Bancroft (1610–32)
• Thomas Walker (1632–48)
• Joshua Hoyle (1648–54)
• Francis Johnson (1655–60)
• Thomas Walker (1660–65)
• Richard Clayton (1665–76)
• Obadiah Walker (1676–89)
• Edward Farrer (1689–91)
• Thomas Bennet (1691–92)
• Arthur Charlett (1692–1722)
• (William Dennison, 1722–29)
• Thomas Cockman (1722/29–45)
• John Browne (1745–64)
• Nathan Wetherell (1764–1807)
• James Griffith (1808–21)
• George Rowley (1821–36)
• Frederick Charles Plumptre (1836–70)
• George Granville Bradley (1870–81)
• James Franck Bright (1881–1906)
• Reginald Walter Macan (1906–23)
• Michael Ernest Sadler (1923–34)
• Arthur Blackburne Poynton (1935–37)
• William Henry Beveridge (1937–45)
• John Herbert Severn Wild (1945–51)
• Arthur Lehman Goodhart (1951–63)
• John Redcliffe-Maud (1963–76)
• Arnold Goodman (1976–86)
• Kingman Brewster (1986–88)
• John Albery (1989–97)
• Robin Butler (1998–2008)
• Ivor Crewe (2008–)

References

1. ^ University College, A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3: The University of Oxford, 1954, pp. 61–81.
2. ^ Darwall-Smith, Robin, A History of University College, Oxford. Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-19-928429-0. Appendix I, page 529.