List of Deans of Westminster

List of Deans of Westminster
The Deanery at Westminster Abbey

A list of the holders of the office of Dean of Westminster. Initially the office was a successor to that of abbot of Westminster, and was for 10 years a bishopric.

Bishop
intra-Reformation
Thomas Thirlby 15401550
Deans
intra-Reformation
William Benson (Abbot Boston) 15401549
Richard Cox 15491553
Hugh Weston 15531556
Abbot
restored by Mary I of England
John Feckenham 15561559
Deans
post-Reformation
William Bill 15601561
Gabriel Goodman 15611601
Lancelot Andrewes 16011605
Richard Neile 16051610
George Montaigne 16101617
Robert Tounson 16171620
John Williams 16201644
Richard Steward (never installed)[1] 16441651
John Earle 16601662
John Dolben[2] 16621683
Thomas Sprat[2] 16831713
Francis Atterbury[2] 17131723
Samuel Bradford[2] 17231731
Joseph Wilcocks[2] 17311756
Zachary Pearce[2] 17561768
John Thomas[2] 17681793
Samuel Horsley[2] 17931802
William Vincent 18021815
John Ireland 18161842
Thomas Turton 18421845
Samuel Wilberforce 1845
William Buckland 18451856
Richard Chenevix Trench 18561864
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley 18641881
George Granville Bradley 18811902
Joseph Armitage Robinson 19021911
Herbert Edward Ryle 19111925
William Foxley Norris 19251937
Paul de Labilliere 19381946
Alan Campbell Don 19461959
Eric Symes Abbott, KCVO 19591974
Edward Frederick Carpenter, KCVO 19741985
Michael Mayne, KCVO 19861996
Arthur Wesley Carr, KCVO 19972006
John Robert Hall[3] 2006

Notes

  1. ^ Commonwealth period
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h For a time it was customary for the Deanery of Westminster to go along with the Bishop of Rochester. These deans held both offices concurrently.
  3. ^ London Gazette: no. 58165. p. 16399. 28 November 2006. Retrieved 14 October 2008.

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