Dean of Windsor

The Dean of Windsor is the spiritual head of the Canons of St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle. The Dean chairs meetings of the Chapter of Canons as primus inter pares.

List of Deans of Windsor

William Mugge, 1348 Walter Almaly, 1380 Thomas Butler, 1403 Richard Kingston, 1412 John Arundel, 1417 Thomas Manning, 1452 John Faux, 1462 William Morland, 1470 William Dudley, 1473 Peter Courtenay, 1476 Richard Beauchamp (bishop), 1478 Thomas Danett, 1481 William Bealey, 1483 John Morgan, 1484 Christopher Urswick, 1495 Christopher Bainbridge, 1505 Thomas Hobbes, 1507 Nicholas West, 1510 John Vesey alias Harman, 1515 John Clerk, 1519 Richard Sampson, 1523 William Franklin, 1536 Owen Oglethorpe, 1553

Hugh Weston, 1556 John Baxall, 1557 George Carew, 1559 William Day, 1572 Robert Bennett, 1595 Giles Thompson, 1602 Anthony Maxley, 1612 Marco Antonio de Dominis, 1618 Henry Beaumont, 1622 Matthew Wren, 1628 Christopher Wren, 1635 Edward Hyde, 1658 Bruno Ryves, 1660 John Durell, 1677 Francis Turner, 1683 Gregory Hascard, 1684 Thomas Manningham, 1708 John Robinson, 1709 George Verney, 12th Baron Willoughby de Broke, 1713 Peniston Booth, 1729 Frederick Keppel, 1765

John Harley, 1778 afterwards Bishop of Hereford John Douglas, 1788 Hon. James Cornwallis, 1791 Charles Manners-Sutton, 1794 Edward Legge, 1805 Henry Lewis Hobart, 1816 George Neville Grenville, 1846 Gerald Wellesley, 1854 George Henry Connor, 1882 Randall Thomas Davidson, 1884 Philip Frank Eliot, 1891 Albert Victor Baillie, 1917–1945 Eric Hamilton, 1945–1962 Robert Wylmer Woods 1962-1971 Launcelot Fleming 1971-1976 Michael Mann 1976-1989 Patrick Reynolds Mitchell 1989-1997 David Conner 1998–present

See also

Anglicanism portal

• Dean and Canons of Windsor

References

• Fasti Wyndesorienses: The deans and canons of Windsor. Historical monographs relating to St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle Volume 8. Sidney Leslie Ollard (1950)

External links

• http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40080#s2