- List of Chancellors of the University of Oxford
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Below is a chronological list of Chancellors of the University of Oxford in England by year of appointment:[1]
Year Chancellor 1224 Robert Grosseteste (Master of the School of Oxford since 1208) 1231 Ralph Cole (surname queried) 1231 Ralph de Maidstone[2] 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 (resigned 1322) 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 Halam 1407 Richard Courtenay 1407 Richard Ullerston 1408 William Clynt 1409 Thomas Pretbury 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)[3] 1414 Richard Snetisham 1415 William Barrowe 1416 Thomas Clare 1416 William Barrowe ? 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 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 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[4][5] 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[6][7] - 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[8] (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 London
- List of Chancellors of the University of Cambridge
References
- ^ The historical register of the University of Oxford. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1900.
- ^ British History Online Deans of Hereford accessed on October 26, 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.
- ^ Thomas S. Legg and Marie-Louise Legg, 'Cave, George, Viscount Cave (1856–1928)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, October 2006 http://0-www.oxforddnb.com.catalogue.ulrls.lon.ac.uk:80/view/article/32329 accessed July 30, 2007
- ^ "Oxford's Chancellorship". TIME. TIME. 1925-07-13. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,720469,00.html. Retrieved 2007-07-30.
- ^ "Jenkins wins the Oxford vote". The Times. March 15, 1987.
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