- List of heads of Deerfield Academy
Deerfield Academy is led by a Head of School selected by the Board of Trustees. During the Academy's history, the position has been known as Preceptor (1799 -1851 ), Principal (1851 -1902 ), Headmaster (1902 -2006 ), and Head of School (2006 -).Preceptors
1.
Enos Bronson 17992.
Claudius Herrick 1799-18003. Samuel Fisher 1800-1801
4. Henry Lord 1801-1802
5. John Hubbard 1802-1804
6. Allen Greeley 1804-1805
7. Avery Williams 1805-1806
8. John Chester 1806
9. Hosea Hildreth 1807-1810
10. Leonard Jewett 1811
11. Daniel Wells Jr. 1812
12. Aaron Arms Jr. 1813-1816
13.
Edward Hitchcock 1816-181814. Henry Payson Kendall 1821-1823
15. Joseph Root Field 1823-1824
16. Jonathan A. Saxton 1824
17.
Rufus Saxton 182518. Frederick H. Allen 1825
19. Zenas Clapp 1836
20. Daniel Hawks 1827
-. Jonathan A. Saxton 1828
21. Joseph Anderson 1828-1829
-. Zenas Clapp 1830
22. Charles Chapin Corse 1830-1831
23. Winthrop Bailey 1832-1835
24. Luther Barker Lincoln 1835-1844
25. Cotton M. Crittenden 1844-1851
Principals
26. Lucien Hunt 1851-1852
27. John H. Thompson 1852
28. Hezekiah R. Warriner 1853-1855
29. Jonathan C. Brown 1855
30. Robert Dickinson Smith 1856
31. Benjamin Smith Lyman 1856
32.
Horatio Alger, Jr. 185633. George W. Bartlett 1856-1857
34. Virgil Maro Howard 1857-1872
35. Arthur Driver 1873-1874
36. Orpha Julina Hall 1874
37. Frances O. Allen 1875
-. Orpha Julina Hall 1876
38. Edgar Rollins Downs 1876-1877
39. Edward Plummer Baker 1877-1879
40. Joseph Y. Bergen Jr. 1879-1881
41. Starr Willard Cutting 1881-1886
42. Edward Everett Rankin 1886-1887
43. Walter Porter White 1887
44. Robert Hamilton Leland 1888-1892
45. Allen Latham 1892-1894
46. Albert Bell Tyler 1894
47. George Arthur Goodell 1895-1897
48. David F. Carpenter 1897-1899
49. Frank A. Kennedy 1899
50.
Robert Pelton Sibley 1900-1902Headmasters
51.
Frank Boyden 1902 -1968 52. David Melville Pynchon
1968 -1980 53. Robert Kaufmann
1980 -1994 54.
Eric Widmer 1994 -2006 Heads of School
55.
Margarita O'Byrne Curtis 2006 -
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