List of vice-chancellors of the University of Oxford

Henry Liddell, appointed Vice-Chancellor in 1870.

The vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford is the chief executive and leader of the University of Oxford. The following people have been vice-chancellors of the University of Oxford (formally known as The Right Worshipful the Vice-Chancellor):^[1]^[2]

Chronological list

1230 – Elyas de Daneis
1270 – Robert Steeton
1288 – John Heigham
1304 – John de Oseworhd
1311 – Walter Gifford
1325 – Richard Kamshale
1333 – Richard FitzRalph
1336 – John de Ayllesbury
1337 – John de Reigham
1347 – Hugh de Willoughby
1348 – William de Hawkesworth
1367 – John de Codeford
1368 – John de Codeford
1377 – Robert Aylesham
1382 – Fr Peter Stokes
1386 – Henry Nafford or Yafford
1389 – John Lyndon
1391 – John Ashwardby
1394 – Richard Ullerston
1396 – Nicholas Faux
1397 – William Farendon or Faringdon
1399 – John Snappe and others
1401 – William Farendon
1404 – Griffin Kirkadam
1405 – William Farendon
1406 – John Whytehede
1407 – John Orum
1422 – John Daventry
1426 – Richard Roderham
1430 – Thomas Eglesfield
1431 – Richard Roderham
1433 – John Burbach or Hurbach
1434 – Thomas Gascoigne, Christopher Knolles, John Burbach
1435 – John Burbach, Thomas Bonyngworth
1436 – John Burbach, Thomas Greneley
1437 – John Gorsuch, Thomas Greneley
1438 – John Gorsuch, William Hawtrine
1439 – John Gorsuch, John Burbach, Thomas Southam, Thomas Gascoigne
1440 – John Gorsuch
1441 – John Gorsuch, Robert Thwaytes, William Babington
1442 – William Grey, William Babington, John Gorsuch, William Westkarre
1443 – William Dowson, William Westkarre
1444 – William Dowson, Richard Hall, William Westkarre
1445 – William Dowson, John Selot
1446 – William Westkarre, John Moreton, William Dowson
1447 – John Burneby, William Dowson
1448 – John Burneby
1449 – John Willey, John Burneby, William Dowson
1450 – Richard Ringstede, John Beke, Roger Bulkeley, John Van
1451 – John Beke, John Van
1452 – John Beke, Thomas Tweyn or Yweyn alias Chalke, Thomas Saunders
1453 – Luke Lacock, Robert Thwayts, Thomas Saunders
1454 – Thomas Tweyn, Thomas Saunders
1455 – Thomas Twynge alias Bonifaunt
1456 – Thomas Saunders
1457 – Thomas Chippenham
1458 – Walter Wynhale, Thomas Twynge
1459 – John Danvers, Thomas Jaune or Jane
1460 – Thomas Tweyn
1461 – William Ive, Roger Bulkeley
1462 – William Ive
1463 – John Watts, Thomas Chaundler, David Husband, John Mulcaster
1464 – Laurence Cokkys, Thomas Chaundler, Roger Bulkeley, John Caldbeck, Thomas Person
1465 – Thomas Smith, Robert Ixworth, John Caldbeck, Thomas Chaundler
1466 – Thomas Chaundler, John Caldbeck, Thomas Stevyn, Laurence Cokkys, Thomas Hill
1467 – Thomas Chaundler, Thomas Stevyn, Thomas Walton
1468 – Thomas Stevyn, Thomas Jaune
1469 – Robert Tulley, Thomas Jaune
1470 – Thomas Stevyn
1480 – John Lane, William Sutton
1481 – Richard Fitzjames, William Sutton
1482 – Robert Wrangwais, William Sutton
1484 – Richard Mayew, Thomas Pawnton
1485 – Richard Mayew
1486 – John Taylor
1487 – Richard Estmond
1488 – John Coldale
1489 – John Coldale
1490 – John Coldale
1491 – Richard Fitzjames, John Coldale
1492 – John Coldale
1493 – Robert Smith
1497 – William Atwater
1498 – Thomas Harpur
1499 – David Hays, William Atwater, Thomas Chaundeler
1500 – William Atwater
1501 – Thomas Banke, Hugh Saunders alias Shakspeere
1502 – William Atwater, Thomas Banke, Hugh Saunders
1503 – John Thornden or Thornton, John Kynton, Simon Grene alias Fotherby
1504 – John Kynton, Robert Tehy or Thay
1505 – Simon Grene, John Roper, John Adams
1506 – John Thornden, William Fauntleroy
1507 – John Thornden or Thornton, John Avery, John Kynton
1508 – William Fauntleroy, John Thornden
1509 – William Fauntleroy
1510 – John Thornden, John Mychell
1511 – William Fauntleroy, Thomas Drax, John Roper, John Cockys, Edmund Wylsford
1512 – Edmund Wylsford, William Fauntleroy, John Kynton
1513 – William Fauntleroy, John Kynton, John Thornden
1514 – John Thornden, Lawrence Stubbs, Edmund Wylsford, Hugh Whytehead
1515 – Edmund Wylsford
1516 – Lawrence Stubbs
1517 – Richard Duck or Doke
1518 – Richard Duck or Doke
1519 – Richard Barnack, Richard Duck or Doke
1520 – William Broke or Brook, Richard Benger
1521 – Richard Benger
1522 – Richard Benger
1523 – Thomas Musgrave
1527 – Martin Lyndsey, John Cottisford
1528 – John Cottisford
1531 – Henry White
1532 – John Cottisford, William Tresham
1547 – Walter Wright
1550 – William Tresham
1551 – Owen Oglethorpe
1552 – James Brookes or Brooks, Richard Marshall
1553 – Richard Marshall
1554 – John Warner
1555 – Richard Smyth
1556 – William Tresham, Thomas Raynolds
1557 – Thomas Raynolds, Thomas Whyte
1558 – William Tresham
1559 – John Warner
1560 – Francis Babbington
1561 – Francis Babbington
1562 – Thomas Whyte
1564 – John Kennall
1567 – Thomas Cowper
1570 – Thomas Cowper
1571 – Lawrence Humphrey
1576 – Herbert Westfaling
1577 – William Cole
1578 – Martin Culpepper
1579 – Tobias Matthew
1580 – Arthur Yeldard
1581 – William James
1582 – Robert Hovenden
1583 – Thomas Thornton
1584 – John Underhill
1585 – Edmund Lilly
1586 – Daniel Bernard
1587 – Francis Wyllis
1588 – Martin Heton
1589 – Nicholas Bond
1590 – William James
1592 – Nicholas Bond
1593 – Edmund Lilly
1596 – Thomas Ravys
1598 – Thomas Singleton
1599 – Thomas Thornton
1600 – George Abbot
1601 – George Ryves
1602 – John Howson
1603 – George Abbot
1604 – John Williams
1605 – George Abbot
1606 – Henry Airay
1607 – John King
1611 – Thomas Singleton
1614 – William Goodwyn
1616 – Arthur Lake
1617 – William Goodwyn
1619 – John Prideaux
1621 – William Piers
1624 – John Prideaux
1626 – William Juxon
1628 – Accepted Frewen
1630 – William Smyth
1632 – Brian Duppa
1634 – Robert Pincke
1636 – Richard Baylie
1638 – Accepted Frewen
1640 – Christopher Potter
1641 – John Prideaux
1642 – John Prideaux in absentia (duties performed by Robert Pincke and then John Tolson as Pro-Vice-Chancellors)^[3]
1643 – John Tolson, Robert Pincke
1645 – Samuel Fell
1648 – Edward Reynolds
1650 – Daniel Greenwood
1652 – John Owen
1657 – John Conant
1660 – Paul Hood
1661 – Richard Baylie
1662 – Walter Blandford
1664 – Robert Say
1666 – John Fell
1669 – Peter Mews
1673 – Ralph Bathurst
1676 – Henry Clerk
1677 – John Nicholas
1679 – Timothy Halton
1682 – John Lloyd
1685 – Timothy Halton
1686 – John Venn
1687 – Gilbert Ironside
1689 – Jonathan Edwards
1692 – Henry Aldrich
1695 – Fitzherbert Adams
1697 – John Meare
1698 – William Paynter
1700 – Roger Mander
1702 – William Delaune
1706 – William Lancaster
1710 – Thomas Brathwait
1712 – Bernard Gardiner
1715 – John Baron
1718 – Robert Shippen
1723 – John Mather
1728 – Edward Butler
1732 – William Holmes
1735 – Stephen Niblett
1738 – Theophilus Leigh
1741 – Walter Hodges
1744 – Euseby Isham
1747 – John Purnell
1750 – John Browne
1753 – George Huddesford
1756 – Thomas Randolph
1759 – Joseph Browne
1765 – David Durell
1768 – Nathan Wetherell
1772 – Thomas Fothergill
1776 – George Horne
1780 – Samuel Dennis
1784 – Joseph Chapman
1788 – John Cooke
1792 – John Wills
1796 – Scrope Berdmore
1797 – Edmund Isham
1798 – Michael Marlow
1802 – Whittington Landon
1806 – Henry Richards
1807 – John Parsons
1810 – John Cole
1814 – Thomas Lee
1818 – Frodsham Hodson
1820 – George William Hall
1824 – Richard Jenkyns
1828 – John Collier Jones
1832 – George Rowley
1836 – Ashhurst Turner Gilbert
1840 – Philip Wynter
1844 – Benjamin Parsons Symons
1848 – Frederick Charles Plumptre
1852 – Richard Lynch Cotton
1856 – David Williams
1858 – Francis Jeune
1862 – John Prideaux Lightfoot
1866 – Francis Leighton
1870 – Henry George Liddell
1874 – James Edwards Sewell
1878 – Evan Evans
1882 – Benjamin Jowett
1886 – James Bellamy
1890 – Henry Boyd
1894 – John Richard Magrath
1898 – Sir William Reynell Anson
1899 – Thomas Fowler
1901 – David Binning Monro
1904 – William Walter Merry
1906 – Thomas Herbert Warren
1910 – Charles Buller Heberden
1913 – Thomas Banks Strong
1917 – Herbert Edward Douglas Blakiston
1920 – Lewis Richard Farnell
1923 – Joseph Wells
1926 – Francis William Pember
1929 – Frederick Homes Dudden
1932 – Francis John Lys
1935 – Alexander Dunlop Lindsay
1938 – George Stuart Gordon
1941 – Sir William David Ross
1944 – Sir Richard Winn Livingstone
1947 – William Teulon Swan Stallybrass
1948 – The Very Reverend John Lowe
1951 – Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra
1954 – Alic Halford Smith
1957 – John Cecil Masterman
1958 – Thomas Sherrer Ross Boase
1960 – Arthur Lionel Pugh Norrington
1962 – Walter Fraser Oakeshott
1964 – Kenneth Clinton Wheare
1966 – John Norman Davidson Kelly
1966 – Kenneth Turpin
1969 – Alan Bullock, Lord Bullock of Leafield
1973 – Sir John Habakkuk
1977 – Sir Rex Richards
1981 – Sir Geoffrey Warnock
1985 – Lord Neill of Bladen
1989 – Sir Richard Southwood
1993 – Sir Peter North
1997 – Sir Colin Lucas
2004 – John Hood
2009 – Andrew D. Hamilton
2016 – Dame Louise Richardson
2023 – Irene Tracey

References

^ Vice-Chancellors of the University of Oxford, University of Oxford, UK.
^ Hibbert, Christopher, ed. (1988). "Appendix 6: Vice-Chancellors of the University". The Encyclopaedia of Oxford. Macmillan. pp. 523–526. ISBN 0-333-39917-X.
^ University of Oxford (1888). "Vice-Chancellors". The Historical Register of the University of Oxford. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 21–27. Retrieved 24 July 2011.

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