# List of masters of Peterhouse, Cambridge

The Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge is the head of the oldest Cambridge University college, Peterhouse. As of 2014 there have been 52 masters (counting John Cosin twice), the incumbent being Andy Parker (physicist).

## List of masters

| # | Name | Term of office | Term of office |
| 1 | Gerard de Hoo | occurs 1290, after 21 June | occurs 1290, after 21 June |
| 2 | Robert de Winwick | occurs 1333 | occurs 1333 |
| 3 | Robert de Mildenhall | occurs 12 May 1338 | occurs 12 May 1338 |
| 4 | Roger de la Goter | occurs 1338–9 and 1340. | occurs 1338–9 and 1340. |
| 5 | Ralph de Holbeche | occurs April 1344 | 1349 (resigned) |
| 6 | William de Whittlesea | 10 September 1349 | 1351 (resigned) |
| 7 | Richard de Wisbeche | 1351 | c. 1374 |
| 8 | Thomas de Wormenhall | c. 1374 | 1381–2† |
| 9 | John de Newton | 3 March 1382 | 1397 (resigned) |
| 10 | William Cavendish | 11 April 1397 | 1397 (resigned) |
| 11 | John de Bottlesham | 27 August 1397 | 1400 (resigned) |
| 12 | Thomas de Castro-Bernardi | 14 June 1400 | occurs 1417–18, died 1420–1. |
| 13 | John Holbroke | 1418? (occurs before 1421) | 1436†? |
| 14 | Thomas Lane | 1436? (occurs 1438) | 1473† |
| 15 | John Warkworth | 6 November 1473 | October 1500† |
| 16 | Thomas Denman | 19 November 1500 | 1500–1† |
| 17 | Henry Hornby | 1500–1 | 12 February 1518† |
| 18 | William Burgoyne | 18 or 19 February 1518 | died before 30 January 1523 |
| 19 | John Edmunds | occurs from Michaelmas 1523 | November 1544† |
| 20 | Ralph Aynsworth | 1544 | 1553 (ejected) |
| 21 | Andrew Perne | 4 February 1554 | 26 April 1589† |
| 22 | Robert Some | 11 May 1589 | 14 January 1609† |
| 23 | John Richardson | 30 January 1609 | 27 May 1615 (resigned) |
| 24 | Thomas Turner | 15 June 1615 | October 1617† |
| 25 | Leonard Mawe | 16 November 1617 | 1625 (resigned) |
| 26 | Matthew Wren | 26 July 1625 | 22 January 1635 (resigned) |
| 27 | John Cosin | 8 February 1635 | 13 March 1644 (ejected) |
| 28 | Lazarus Seaman | 11 April 1644 | 1660 (ejected) |
| 27 | John Cosin | 3 August 1660 (restored) | 18 October 1660 (resigned) |
| 29 | Bernard Hale | 5 November 1660 | 29 March 1663† |
| 30 | Joseph Beaumont | 24 April 1663 | 24 November 1699† |
| 31 | Thomas Richardson | 9 December 1699 | 30 July 1733† |
| 32 | John Whalley | 21 August 1733 | 12 December 1748† |
| 33 | Edmund Keene | 29 December 1748 | 25 October 1754 (resigned) |
| 34 | Edmund Law | 12 November 1754 | 14 August 1787† |
| 35 | Francis Barnes | 3 May 1788 | 1 May 1838† |
| 36 | William Hodgson | 16 May 1838 | 16 October 1847† |
| 37 | Henry Wilkinson Cookson | 3 or 4 November 1847 | 30 September 1876† |
| 38 | James Porter | 28 October 1876 | 2 October 1900† |
| 39 | Sir Adolphus Ward | 29 October 1900 | 19 June 1924† |
| 40 | The Lord Chalmers | 5 July 1924 | 1931 (resigned) |
| 41 | Sir William Birdwood | 20 April 1931 | 1938 (resigned) |
| 42 | Harold Temperley | 1 July 1938 | 11 July 1939† |
| 43 | Paul Cairn Vellacott | 29 July 1939 | 15 November 1954† |
| 44 | Herbert Butterfield | 17 January 1955 | 1968 |
| 45 | John Charles Burkill | 1968 | 1973 |
| 46 | Grahame Clark | 1973 | 1980 |
| 47 | The Lord Dacre of Glanton (Hugh Trevor-Roper) | 1980 | 1987 |
| 48 | Henry Chadwick | 1987 | 1993 |
| 49 | Sir John Meurig Thomas | 1993 | 2002 |
| 50 | The Lord Wilson of Tillyorn | 2002 | 2008 |
| 51 | Adrian Dixon | 2008 | 2016 |
| 52 | Bridget Kendall | 2016 | 2023 |
| 53 | Andy Parker | 2023 | "incumbent" |