List of Chancellors of the University of Oxford

This is a list of Chancellors of the University of Oxford in England by year of appointment:[1][2][3]

Chronological list

YearChancellor
1224Robert Grosseteste (Master of the School of Oxford since 1208)
1231Ralph Cole (surname queried)
1231Ralph de Maidstone[4]
1231Richard Batchden
1233Ralph Cole
1238Simon de Bovill
1239John de Rygater
1240Richard of Chichester
1240Ralph de Heyham
1244Simon de Bovill
1246Gilbert de Biham
1252Ralph de Sempringham
1255William de Lodelawe
1256Richard de S. Agatha
1262Thomas de Cantilupe
1264Henry de Cicestre ?
1267Nicholas de Ewelme
1269Thomas Bek
1273William de Bosco
1276Eustace de Normanville
1280John de Pontissara / John of Pontoise (Bishop of Winchester)
1280Henry de Stanton
1282William de Montfort
1283Roger de Rowell or Rodwell or Rodewell
1284William Pikerell
1285Hervey de Saham
1288Robert Winchelsey
1289William de Kingescote
1290John de Ludlow
1290John of Monmouth (afterwards Bishop of Llandaff)
1291Simon of Ghent (afterwards Bishop of Salisbury)
1292Henry Swayne ?
1293Roger de Martival (afterwards Bishop of Salisbury)
1294Peter de Medburn
1294Roger de Weseham
1297Richard de Clyve
1300James de Cobeham
1302Walter de Wetheringsete
1304Simon de Faversham
1306Walter Burdun
1308William de Bosco
1309Henry de Maunsfeld
1311Walter Giffard
1311Henry de Maunsfeld
1313Henry Harclay
1316Richard de Nottingham ?
1317John Lutterell
1322Henry Gower (afterwards Bishop of St David's)
1324William de Alburwyke
1326Thomas Hotham
1328Ralph of Shrewsbury
1329Roger de Streton
1330Nigel de Wavere
1332Ralph Radyn
1334Hugh de Willoughby
1335Robert de Stratford (later Bishop of Chichester, Lord High Chancellor of England)
1338Robert Paynink ?
1338John Leech
1339William de Skelton
1341Walter de Scauren
1341William de Bergeveney
1345John de Northwode
1349William de Hawkesworth
1350William de Palmorna (1350–1351)
1354Humphrey de Cherlton
1357Lewis Charlton ?
1357John de Hotham
1358John Renham or Reigham
1359John de Hotham
1360Richard Fitz Ralph ?
1360Nicholas de Aston
1363John de Renham
1363John de Echingham or Hethingham
1366Adam de Toneworth
1367William Courtney (afterwards Bishop of Hereford, London, Canterbury)
1369Adam de Toneworth
1371William de Heytisbury
1372William de Remmyngton
1373William de Wylton
1376John Turke
1377Adam de Toneworth
1379Robert Aylesham
1379William Berton
1381Robert Rygge or Rugge
1382William Berton
1382Robert Rygge
1382Nicholas Hereford
1382William Rugge ?
1383Robert Rygge
1388Thomas Brightwell
1390Thomas Cranley (afterwards Archbishop of Dublin)
1391Robert Rygge
1392Ralph Redruth
1393Thomas Prestbury
1394Robert Arlyngton
1395Thomas Hyndeman
1397Philip Repyngdon (afterwards Bishop of Lincoln)
1397Henry Beaufort (afterwards Bishop of Lincoln and Winchester)
1399Thomas Hyndeman
1400Philip Repyngdon
1403Robert Alum or Hallam (afterwards Bishop of Salisbury)
1407Richard Courtenay
1407Richard Ullerston
1408William Clynt
1409Thomas Prestbury
1410William Sulburge
1411Richard Courtenay
1412William Sulburge
1412Richard Courtenay
1413William Sulburge
1413William Barrow (afterwards Bishop of Bangor and of Carlisle)[5]
1414Richard Snetisham
1415William Barrow
1416Thomas Clare
1416William Barrow
1417Thomas Clare
1417Walter Treugof
1419Robert Colman
1419Walter Treugof
1420Thomas Rodborne
1420Walter Treugof
1421John Castell
1426Thomas Chase (afterwards Chancellor of Ireland)
1431Gilbert Kymer
1433Thomas Bourchier (Archbishop of Canterbury)
1437John Carpenter
1438Richard Praty or Pratty ?
1439John Norton
1440Richard Roderham
1440William Grey (afterwards Bishop of Ely)
1442Thomas Gascoigne
1442Henry Sever
1443Thomas Gascoigne
1445Robert Thwaits
1446Gilbert Kymer
1453George Neville (afterwards Bishop of Exeter and York; Chancellor of England)
1457Thomas Chaundeler
1461George Neville
1472Thomas Chaundeler
1479Lionel Woodville (afterwards Bishop of Salisbury)
1483William Dudley
1483John Russell
1494John Morton (while also Archbishop of Canterbury and Chancellor of England)
1500William Smyth
1502Richard Mayew (Bishop of Hereford)
1506William Warham
1532John Longland (Bishop of Lincoln)
1547Richard Cox
1552John Mason
1556Cardinal Reginald Pole (Archbishop of Canterbury)
1558Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel
1559John Mason
1564Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester
1585Sir Thomas Bromley, deputising for Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester)
1588Sir Christopher Hatton
1591Thomas Sackville, 1st Baron Buckhurst (Earl of Dorset from 1604)
1608Richard Bancroft
1610Thomas Egerton, 1st Baron Ellesmere (Viscount Brackley from 1616)
1616William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke
1630William Laud
1641Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke
1643William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset
1648Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke (to his death on 23 January 1649)
1649Vacant
1650Oliver Cromwell
1657Richard Cromwell
1660William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset, reinstated after the Restoration
1660Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
1667Gilbert Sheldon
1669James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde
1688James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde
1715Charles Butler, 1st Earl of Arran
1759John Fane, 7th Earl of Westmorland
1762George Lee, 3rd Earl of Lichfield
1772Frederick North, Lord North (Earl of Guilford from 1790)
1792William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
1809William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville
1834Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
1852Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
1869Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
1903George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen[6][7]
1907George Curzon, 1st Baron Curzon of Kedleston (Earl Curzon of Kedleston from 1911; Marquess Curzon of Kedleston from 1921)
1925George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave;[8][9] see University of Oxford Chancellor election, 1925
1928Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
1933E. F. L. Wood, 1st Baron Irwin (Viscount Halifax from 1934; Earl of Halifax from 1944) (1933–1959)
1960Harold Macmillan (Earl of Stockton from 1984) (1960–1986); see University of Oxford Chancellor election, 1960
1987Roy Jenkins[10] (Baron Jenkins of Hillhead from 1987) (1987–2003); see University of Oxford Chancellor election, 1987
2003Chris Patten (Baron Patten of Barnes from 2005) (2003–); see University of Oxford Chancellor election, 2003

See also

References

  1. ↑ The Historical Register of the University of Oxford. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1900.
  2. ↑ Hibbert, Christopher, ed. (1988). "Appendix 5: Chancellors of the University". The Encyclopaedia of Oxford. Macmillan. pp. 521–522. ISBN 0-333-39917-X.
  3. ↑ Wood, Anthony (1790). "Fasti Oxonienses". The History and Antiquities of the Colleges and Halls in the University of Oxford. Google Books.
  4. ↑ British History Online Deans of Hereford. Accessed on 26 October 2007.
  5. ↑ Ebenezer Josiah Newell, A history of the Welsh church to the dissolution of the monasteries (1895).
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ Roy Jenkins (1998). The Chancellors. Macmillan Publishers. p. 87.
  8. ↑ Legg, Thomas S.; Legg, Marie-Louise (September 2004; online edition, October 2006). "Cave, George, Viscount Cave (1856–1928)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved July 30, 2007. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  9. ↑ "Oxford's Chancellorship". TIME. TIME. 1925-07-13. Retrieved 2007-07-30.
  10. ↑ "Jenkins wins the Oxford vote". The Times. March 15, 1987.
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