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1224 Robert Grosseteste (Master of the School of Oxford since 1208)

1231 Ralph Cole (surname queried)

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 de Gaunt (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 Barrowe

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

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 Nevill (afterwards Bishop of Exeter and York; Chancellor of England)

1457 Thomas Chaundeler

1461 George Nevill

1472 Thomas Chaundeler

1479 Lionel Woodvill (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 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

1588 Sir Christopher Hatton

1591 Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset

1608 Richard Bancroft

1610 Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley

1616 William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke

1630 William Laud

1641 Philip Herbert, 5th Earl of Pembroke

1643 William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset

1648 Philip Herbert, 5th Earl of Pembroke (to his death on 23 January 1649)

Office vacant till January 1650 A 13th century portrait of Grosseteste. ... Ralph Dayton Cole (November 30, 1873 - October 15, 1932) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio, brother of Raymond Clinton Cole. ... Ralph Dayton Cole (November 30, 1873 - October 15, 1932) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio, brother of Raymond Clinton Cole. ... Richard of Levick, (Richard Wych or Richard of Wych or Richard de Wich - born Droitwich 1197, died Dover 1253) is a saint (canonized 1262) who was Bishop of Chichester. ... Thomas de Cantilupe (c. ... Robert Winchelsea (died 1313), archbishop of Canterbury, was probably born at Old Winchelsea. ... Richard Fitzralph was born in Dundalk, Ireland, and eventually became Archbishop of Armagh. ... William Courtenay (c. ... Philip Repyngdon (or Repington) (d. ... Henry Beaufort, the second son of John of Gaunt and his mistress Katherine Swynford, was born in Anjou (France) in about 1374 and educated for a career in the Church. ... Philip Repyngdon (or Repington) (d. ... Richard Courtenay (d. ... Richard Ullerston was born in the Duchy of Lancaster, England; d. ... Richard Courtenay (d. ... Richard Courtenay (d. ... Thomas Bourchier (ca. ... William Dudley was Bishop of Durham from 1476-1483. ... This article is about the 15th century English Bishop, for other uses see John Morton (disambiguation). ... William Smyth could be William Smyth, bishop of Lincoln William Smyth, a professor of mathematics at Bowdoin College William Smyth, bishop William Smyth (or Smith) (c. ... Walliam Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury, by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1527 (Louvre Museum) William Warham (c. ... Richard Cox (c. ... Reginald Pole, cardinal Reginald Pole (1500 - 1558) Archbishop of Canterbury, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, was the son of Margaret Pole who was the daughter of George, Duke of Clarence. ... Henry Fitzalan, 19th Earl of Arundel (c. ... Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester painted by Steven van der Meulen. ... Portrait of Sir Christopher Hatton, Lord Chancellor of England during Elizabethan era Portrait by Nicholas Hilliard, 1588-1591 Sir Christopher Hatton (1540–November 20, 1591) was an English politician, the lord chancellor of England and, according to speculation, the lover of Queen Elizabeth I. His father was William Hatton (d. ... Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset (1536 - 19 April 1608) was an English statesman and poet. ... Archbishop Richard Bancroft, DD , BD , MA , BA (1544 - November 2, 1610), archbishop of Canterbury, was born at Farnworth in Lancashire in 1544. ... Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley (1540 – 1617) was an English nobleman who served as Member of Parliament for Cheshire. ... For other persons named William Herbert, see William Herbert (disambiguation). ... Archbishop William Laud (October 7, 1573 – January 10, 1645) was Archbishop of Canterbury and a fervent supporter of King Charles I of England, whom he encouraged to believe in divine right. ... Philip Herbert, 5th Earl of Pembroke and 2nd Earl of Montgomery (1621 – December 11, 1669), succeeded to the titles in 1649 on the death of his father, also called Philip Herbert. ... William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset (1588–October 24, 1660) was the son of Edward Seymour and Honora Rogers. ... Philip Herbert, 5th Earl of Pembroke and 2nd Earl of Montgomery (1621 – December 11, 1669), succeeded to the titles in 1649 on the death of his father, also called Philip Herbert. ...

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

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

18?? Sir Archibald Alison, 1st Baronet (1852-1867)

19?? George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (fl 1907)

19?? Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (-1933)

1933 E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax (1933-1959)

1960 Harold Macmillan (1960-1986)

1987 Roy Jenkins (1987-2003)

2003 Chris Patten (2003-)

Oliver Cromwell (April 25, 1599–September 3, 1658) was an English military and political leader best known for making England a republic and leading the Commonwealth of England. ... Richard Cromwell (4 October 1626 – 12 July 1712) was the third son of Oliver Cromwell, and the second Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland, for little over eight months, from 3 September 1658 until 25 May 1659. ... William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset (1588–October 24, 1660) was the son of Edward Seymour and Honora Rogers. ... Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (18 February 1609–9 December 1674) was an English historian, statesman and grandfather of two queens regnant, Mary II and Anne. ... Gilbert Sheldon (1598-1677), Archbishop of Canterbury, was born at Stanton in the parish of Ellastone, Staffordshire, and educated at Oxford. ... James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde (October 19, 1610 – July 21, 1688), was an Anglo-Irish statesman and soldier. ... James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde (April 29, 1665 - November 16, 1745), Irish statesman and soldier, son of Thomas, Earl of Ossory, and grandson of James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, was born in Dublin and was educated in France and afterwards at Christ Church, Oxford. ... Lieutenant General Charles Butler, 1st Earl of Arran (de jure 3rd Duke of Ormonde and 14th Earl of Ormonde) was born on 29 August 1671. ... Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford, KG, PC (13 April 1732 – 5 August 1792), more often known by his courtesy title, Lord North, which he used from 1752 until 1790, was Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1770 to 1782, and a major actor in the American Revolution. ... William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, (April 14, 1738 – October 30, 1809) was a British Whig and Tory statesman, Chancellor of Oxford University and Prime Minister. ... William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville (October 25, 1759 - January 12, 1834), was a British statesman and Prime Minister. ... Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS (c. ... Arms of Edward Smith-Stanley Statue in Parliament Square, London Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, KG, PC (29 March 1799–23 October 1869) was a British statesman, three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and is to date the longest serving leader of the Conservative... Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, KG, GCVO, PC (3 February 1830 – 22 August 1903), known as Lord Robert Cecil before 1865 and as Viscount Cranborne from 1865 until 1868, was a British statesman and Prime Minister on three occasions, for a total of over 13 years. ... The Marquess Curzon of Kedleston George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC (11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925) was a British Conservative statesman who served as Viceroy of India and Foreign Secretary. ... Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (April 25, 1862 – September 7, 1933), better known as Sir Edward Grey was a British politician and ornithologist. ... Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, KG, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, PC (16 April 1881–23 December 1959), known as The Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and as The Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was a British Conservative politician. ... Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986), was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. ... Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead, OM, PC (November 11, 1920 – January 5, 2003) was a British politician and a prominent Labour Member of Parliament in the 1960s and 1970s, and founding member of the Social Democratic Party (SDP). ... Chris Patten in 1999 Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH, PC (born 12 May 1944) is a prominent British Conservative politician and a Patron of the Tory Reform Group. ...

Reference

The historical register of the University of Oxford. Oxford: Clarendon, 1900.

See also

• List of Vice-Chancellors of the University of Oxford
• List of University of Oxford people

• List of Chancellors of the University of Cambridge