List of Masters of Balliol College, Oxford
Balliol College, Oxford, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford, is governed by the Master and Fellows of the college.

List of Masters of Balliol College, Oxford

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Table Section Text: Balliol College, Oxford, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford, is governed by the Master and Fellows of the college.

Name	Date	Details

Walter de Fodringeye	1282

Hugh de Warkenby	1296

Stephen de Cornubia	1303

Richard de Chickwell	1309

Thomas de Waldeby	1321

Henry de Seton	1323

Nicholas de Luceby	1327

John Poclynton	1332

Hugh Corbrygge	1340

Robert de Derby	1356

John Wycliffe	1360

John Hugate	1366

Thomas Tyrwhit	1371

Hamond Haskman	1397

William Lambert	1406

Thomas Chace	1412

Robert Burley	1428

Richard Stapilton	1429

William Brandon	1429

Robert Twaytes	1450

William Lambton	1461

John Segden	1472

Robert Abdy	1477

William Bell	1496

Richard Barningham	1504

Thomas Cisson	1511

Richard Stubbys	1518

William White	1525

George Coote	1539

William Wright	1545

James Brooks	1547	Bishop of Gloucester (1554–1558)

William Wright	1555

Francis Babington	1559

Antony Garnet	1560

Richard Hooper	1563

Robert Hooper	1567

John Piers	1570

Adam Squier	1571

Edmund Lilly	1580

Robert Abbots	1609	Later Bishop of Salisbury

John Parkhurst	1616

Thomas Laurence	1637

George Bradshaw	1646

Henry Savage	1650

Thomas Good	1672

John Venn	1678

Roger Mander	1687

John Baron	1704

Joseph Hunt	1721

Theophilus Leigh	1726	Longest incumbent in office

John Davey	1785

John Parsons	1798	Bishop of Peterborough from 1813

Richard Jenkyns	1819

Robert Scott	1854	Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture at Oxford (1861 to 1870) Dean of Rochester (1870 to 1887)

Benjamin Jowett	1870

Edward Caird	1893–1907	Snell Exhibitioner 1860 Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow 1866 First lay Master.

James Leigh Strachan Davidson	1907–16

Arthur Lionel Smith	1916–24

Alexander Dunlop Lindsay	1924–49	Vice-Chancellor in 1935. Founder of the University of Keele

David Lindsay Keir	1949–65	Fellow of University Coll. 1921 Vice-Chancellor, Queens University, Belfast 1939.

Christopher Hill	1965–78

Sir Anthony Kenny	1978–89

Baruch Blumberg	1989–94	George Eastman Visiting Professor 1983 Co-recipient of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Colin Lucas	1994–2001	Vice-Chancellor (1997–2004)

Andrew Graham	1997–2001 (acting) 2001–2011

Drummond Bone	2011–18	Byron Scholar, Snell Exhibitioner 1968 Principal of Royal Holloway, University of London (2000 to 2002) Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool (2002 to 2008)

Helen Ghosh	From April 2018

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