List of Provosts of Trinity College Dublin
The following persons have been Provost of Trinity College Dublin.

List of Provosts of Trinity College Dublin

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Table Section Text: The following persons have been Provost of Trinity College Dublin.

List of Provosts of Trinity College Dublin

No.	Name	Tenure	Notes

1	Adam Loftus	1592–1594	(c.1533–1605). Also was Archbishop of Armagh, Archbishop of Dublin and Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

2	Walter Travers	1594–1598	(c.1548–1634)

3	Henry Alvey	1601–1609

4	Sir William Temple	1609–1627	(c.1555–1627)

5	William Bedell	1627–1629	(c.1571–1642). Later became Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh in 1629.

6	Robert Ussher	1629–1634	Later became Bishop of Kildare 1636–1642.

7	William Chappell	1634–1640	(c.1582–1649). Also was Bishop of Cork and Ross 1638–1649.

8	Richard Washington	1640–1641

9	Anthony Martin	1645–1650	(died 1650). Also was Bishop of Meath 1625–1650

10	Samuel Winter	1652–1660	(c.1603–1666)

11	Thomas Seele	1661–1675	(c.1611–1675). Also was Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin 1666–1675

12	Michael Ward	1674–1678	(c.1643–1681). Later became Bishop of Ossory in 1678, transferred to Derry in 1680.

13	Narcissus Marsh	1679–1683	(c.1638–1713). Later became Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin 1683, then Archbishop of Cashel in 1690, Archbishop of Dublin in 1694, and Archbishop of Armagh in 1703.

14	Robert Huntington	1683–1692	(c.1636–1701). Later became Bishop of Raphoe from July to September 1701.

15	St George Ashe	1692–1695	(c.1658–1718). Later became bishop of Cloyne in 1695, translated to Clogher in 1697, and finally to Derry in 1717.

16	George Browne	1695–1699	(c.1649–1699)

17	Peter Browne	1699–1710	(c.1665–1735). Later became Bishop of Cork and Ross 1710–1735.

18	Benjamin Pratt	1710–1717	(c.1669–1721). Later became Dean of Down 1717–1721.

19	Richard Baldwin	1717–1758	(c.1668–1758)

20	Francis Andrews	1758–1774	(c.1718–1774). He left £3,000 to found the Dunsink Observatory and the Andrews chair of astronomy.

21	John Hely-Hutchinson	1774–1794	(c.1724–1794)

22	Richard Murray	1795–1799	(c.1726–1799)

23	John Kearney	1799–1806	(c.1742–1813). Later became Bishop of Ossory 1806–1813.

24	George Hall	1806–1811	(c.1753–1811). Later became Bishop of Dromore 17–23 November 1811.

25	Thomas Elrington	1811–1820	(c.1760–1835). Later became Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe in 1820, then translated to Ferns and Leighlin in 1822.

26	Samuel Kyle	1820–1831	(c.1771–1848). Later became Bishop of Cork and Ross 1831–1835, and Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross 1835–1848

27	Bartholomew Lloyd	1831–1837	(c.1772–1837)

28	Franc Sadleir	1837–1851	(c.1774–1851)

29	Richard MacDonnell	1851–1867	(c. 1787–1867)

30	Humphrey Lloyd	1867–1881	(c.1800–1881)

31	John Hewitt Jellett	1881–1888	(c.1817–1888)

32	George Salmon	1888–1904	(c.1819–1904). Also was Chancellor of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin 1871–1904.

33	Anthony Traill	1904–1914	(c.1838–1914)

34	Sir John Pentland Mahaffy	1914–1919	(c.1839–1919)

35	John Henry Bernard	1919–1927	(c.1860–1927). Formerly Dean of St.

36	Edward John Gwynn	1927–1937	(c.1868–1941)

37	William Thrift	1937–1942	(c.1870–1942)

38	Ernest Alton	1942–1952	(c.1873–1952)

39	Albert Joseph McConnell	1952–1974	(1903–1993)

40	F. S. L. Lyons	1974–1981	(c.1923–1983)

41	William Arthur Watts	1981–1991	(1930–2010)

42	Thomas Mitchell	1991–2001	(born 1939)

43	John Hegarty	2001–2011

44	Patrick Prendergast	2011–

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Richard MacDonnell was the 29th Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, succeeding Franc Sadleir.

final_sentence: Richard MacDonnell was the 29th Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, succeeding Franc Sadleir.