List of Chancellors of the University of Oxford
Chronological list

List of Chancellors of the University of Oxford

Section Title: Chronological list
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Year	Chancellor

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

1231	Ralph Cole (surname queried)

1231	Ralph de Maidstone

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 of Ghent (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

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 Hallam (afterwards Bishop of Salisbury)

1407	Richard Courtenay

1407	Richard Ullerston

1408	William Clynt

1409	Thomas Prestbury

1410	William Sulburge

1411	Richard Courtenay

1412	William Sulburge

1412	Richard Courtenay

1413	William Sulburge

1413	William Barrow (afterwards Bishop of Bangor and of Carlisle)

1414	Richard Snetisham

1415	William Barrow

1416	Thomas Clare

1416	William Barrow

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 (Archbishop of Canterbury)

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

1457	Thomas Chaundeler

1461	George Neville

1472	Thomas Chaundeler

1479	Lionel Woodville (afterwards Bishop of Salisbury)

1483	William Dudley

1483	John Russell

1494	John Morton (while also Archbishop of Canterbury and Chancellor of England)

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	Cardinal 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, deputising for Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester)

1588	Sir Christopher Hatton

1591	Thomas Sackville, 1st Baron Buckhurst (Earl of Dorset from 1604)

1608	Richard Bancroft

1610	Thomas Egerton, 1st Baron Ellesmere (Viscount Brackley from 1616)

1616	William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke

1630	William Laud

1641	Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke

1643	William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset

1648	Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke (to his death on 23 January 1649)

1649	Vacant

1650	Oliver Cromwell

1657	Richard Cromwell

1660	William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset, reinstated after the Restoration

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 (Earl of Guilford from 1790)

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

1903	George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen

1907	George Curzon, 1st Baron Curzon of Kedleston (Earl Curzon of Kedleston from 1911; Marquess Curzon of Kedleston from 1921)

1925	George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave; see University of Oxford Chancellor election, 1925

1928	Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

1933	E. F. L. Wood, 1st Baron Irwin (Viscount Halifax from 1934; Earl of Halifax from 1944) (1933–1959)

1960	Harold Macmillan (Earl of Stockton from 1984) (1960–1986); see University of Oxford Chancellor election, 1960

1987	Roy Jenkins (Baron Jenkins of Hillhead from 1987) (1987–2003); see University of Oxford Chancellor election, 1987

2003	Chris Patten (Baron Patten of Barnes from 2005) (2003–); see University of Oxford Chancellor election, 2003

Sentence(s)

From 1335, Stratford was Chancellor of the University of Oxford.

final_sentence: From 1335, Stratford was Chancellor of the University of Oxford.