List of Chancellors of the University of Oxford
Chronological list
Table:
Year
Chancellor

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

1231
Ralph Cole (surname queried)

1231
Ralph de Maidstone[4]

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)[5]

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[6][7]

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;[8][9] 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[10] (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

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