# List of chancellors of the University of Oxford

The chancellor of the University of Oxford is the ceremonial head of the university. The office dates from the 13th century.

## Chronological list

| Year | Chancellor |
| 1224 | Robert Grosseteste (Master of the School of Oxford since 1208) |
| 1231 | Ralph Cole (surname queried) |
| 1231 | Ralph of 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 of Pontoise |
| 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 |
| 1291 | Simon of Ghent |
| 1292 | Henry Swayne ? |
| 1293 | Roger de Martival |
| 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 |
| 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 (Bishop of Chichester and Lord Chancellor from 1337) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 1391 | Robert Rygge |
| 1392 | Ralph Redruth |
| 1393 | Thomas Prestbury |
| 1394 | Robert Arlyngton |
| 1395 | Thomas Hyndeman |
| 1397 | Philip Repyngdon |
| 1397 | Henry Beaufort (Bishop of Lincoln from 1398) |
| 1399 | Thomas Hyndeman |
| 1400 | Philip Repyngdon |
| 1403 | Robert Alum or Hallam |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 1431 | Gilbert Kymer |
| 1433 | Thomas Bourchier (Bishop of Worcester from 1434) |
| 1437 | John Carpenter |
| 1438 | Richard Praty or Pratty ? |
| 1439 | John Norton |
| 1440 | Richard Roderham |
| 1440 | William Grey |
| 1442 | Thomas Gascoigne |
| 1442 | Henry Sever |
| 1443 | Thomas Gascoigne |
| 1445 | Robert Thwaits |
| 1446 | Gilbert Kymer |
| 1453 | George Neville |
| 1457 | Thomas Chaundeler |
| 1461 | George Neville (Lord Chancellor; Archbishop of York from 1465) |
| 1472 | Thomas Chaundeler |
| 1479 | Lionel Woodville (Bishop of Salisbury from 1482) |
| 1483 | William Dudley |
| 1483 | John Russell |
| 1494 | John Morton (Archbishop of Canterbury; Lord Chancellor) |
| 1500 | William Smyth |
| 1502 | Richard Mayew (Bishop of Hereford from 1504) |
| 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 the 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 |
| 1648–1650 | Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke (died in office) |
| 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 |
| 1928 | Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon |
| 1933 | Edward Wood, 1st Baron Irwin (Viscount Halifax from 1934; Earl of Halifax from 1944) |
| 1960 | Harold Macmillan (Earl of Stockton from 1984) |
| 1987 | Roy Jenkins (Baron Jenkins of Hillhead from 1987) |
| 2003 | Chris Patten (Baron Patten of Barnes from 2005) |
| 2025 | William Hague, Baron Hague of Richmond |