List of Presidents of Queens' College, Cambridge
This is a list of Presidents of Queen's College, Cambridge. While the head of most colleges are called Masters, the head of Queens' College, Cambridge has been called the President since 1448.

List of Presidents of Queens' College, Cambridge

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Table Section Text: This is a list of Presidents of Queen's College, Cambridge. While the head of most colleges are called Masters, the head of Queens' College, Cambridge has been called the President since 1448.

Name	Portrait	Dates	Notes

Andrew Dokett	1448–1484	English churchman and academic

Thomas Wilkynson	1484–1505	Vicar, Canon of Ripon

John Cardinal Fisher	-	1505–1508	Catholic Bishop of Rochester; executed by Henry VIII for refusing to accept him as head of the Church of England in 1535, canonised in 1935.

Robert Bekensaw	1508–1519	English churchman and academic

John Jenyn	1519–1525	Cleric

Thomas Forman	1525–1527	Rector of All Hallows, London. Early Reformer.

William Frankleyn	1527–1529	English churchman, dean of Windsor

Simon Heynes	1529–1537	Theologian. Early reformer.

William May	1537–1553, 1559–1560	Theologian and dean of St Paul's Cathedral; his report saved the Cambridge colleges from dissolution under Henry VIII

William Glyn	1553–1557	Also Bishop of Bangor

Thomas Pecocke	1557–1559	Theologian

John Stokes	1560–1568	Also Archdeacon of York

William Chaderton	-	1568–1579	Later Bishop of Chester and Bishop of Lincoln

Humphrey Tyndall	1579–1614	Theologian, Dean of Ely and Archdeacon of Stafford

John Davenant	-	1614–1622	Later Bishop of Salisbury

John Mansell	1622–1631	Churchman, theologian, philosopher

Edward Martin	1631–1644, 1660–1662	Sent the college silver to King Charles I; imprisoned in the Tower of London by Oliver Cromwell; restored to presidency under Charles II

Herbert Palmer	-	1644–1647	Puritan and member of the Westminster Assembly; installed as President by Cromwell

Thomas Horton	1647–1660	Theologian; removed by the restoration of the monarchy

Anthony Sparrow	-	1662–1667	Later Bishop of Exeter and Bishop of Norwich

William Wells	1667–1675	Archdeacon of Colchester

Henry James	-	1675–1717	Theologian

John Davies	-	1717–1732	Philosopher, Churchman

William Sedgwick	-	1732–1760	Philosopher

Robert Plumptre	-	1760–1788	English churchman and academic

Isaac Milner	-	1788–1820	Mathematician, an inventor. Lucasian Professor of Mathematics

Henry Godfrey	1820–1832	English academic

Joshua King	-	1832–1857	Lucasian Professor of Mathematics

George Phillips	-	1857–1892	Author in Mathematics and Oriental languages

William Magan Campion	-	1892–1896	Mathematician

Herbert Edward Ryle	-	1896–1901	Later Bishop of Exeter, Bishop of Winchester and Dean of Westminster

Frederic Henry Chase	1901–1906	Later Bishop of Ely

Thomas Cecil Fitzpatrick	1906–1931	Namesake of the Fitzpatrick Hall in Cripps Court

John Archibald Venn	1931–1958	British economist, son of the logician John Venn

Arthur Armitage	1958–1970	Namesake of the Armitage Room above the Fitzpatrick Hall

Sir Derek Bowett	1970–1982	International lawyer

Lord Oxburgh	-	1982–1988	Eminent geologist and geophysicist

Sir John Polkinghorne	-	1988–1996	KBE; FRS; physicist and theologian; extensive writer on science-faith relations; Templeton Prize 2002; member of General Synod

Lord Eatwell	-	1997 –	Previously chief economic adviser to Neil Kinnock and chairman of the British Library; Opposition Spokesman for the Treasury in the House of Lords.

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Thomas Pecocke was the President of Queens' College, Cambridge.

final_sentence: Thomas Pecocke was the President of Queens' College, Cambridge.