The following is a list of chancellors of the University of Cambridge from c.1215 to the present day.[1] Chancellors were elected annually until 1514, and thereafter were elected for life.[2]
Tenure | Chancellor | Notes |
---|---|---|
c.1215–c.1232 | Richard of Wetheringsett | |
c.1246 | Hugh de Hotton | |
1256 | Reginald Gerninghall | |
1257 | Stephen Hepworth | |
1259 | William de Ludham | |
1260 | Richard de Gedney | |
1261 | Richard Dryfield | |
1267 | John de Asgarby | |
1270–1275 | John Hooke | |
1276 | Roger de Fulbourn | |
1283 | Andrew de Gisleham | |
1286 | Thomas Sheringham | |
1287 | Stephen Hepworth | |
1289–1290 | Ralph de Leicester | |
1290–1292 | Geoffery de Pakenham | |
1293–1295 | Henry de Boyton | |
1295–1296 | John de Bradenham | |
1296–1299 | Thomas de Sheringham | |
1299 | Stephen Hepworth | |
1300–1303 | Stephen Haslingfield | |
1303–1307 | Stephen de Segrace | |
1307 | Stephen Haslingfield | |
1315 | Richard de Ashton | |
1321–1326 | Roger Northburgh has been incorrectly described as Chancellor[3] since 1691.[4] | |
1326–1329 | Richard de Badew | |
1329–1331 | Thomas de Foxton | |
c. 1330 | Robert de Winwick | |
1331–1334 | John de Langley | |
1334–1335 | Robert de Mildenhall[5] | |
1335–1337 | Henry de Herwarden | |
1337–1339 | Richard Harling (or Ling) | |
1340 | Robert de Claydon | |
1341 | Thomas de Northwood | |
1344 | Thomas de Northwood | |
1346–1348 | John de Crakhall | Re-elected in 1348 on 9 June[6] |
1348 | Thomas de Grantchester | |
1348 | William de Lymbergh | Elected 15 December[6] |
1349–1351 | Richard Leicester (or Richard de Wetherset, Hetherset, Wetheringsett)[7] | Elected 21 Jan.[6] |
1351 | Richard Harling | |
1352 | Anthony of Grantchester | |
1352–1359 | William Tynkell | |
1359–1360 | Thomas Sutton | |
1360–1361 | Richard de Wetherset | |
1361–1362 | Michael de Haynton | |
1361–1366 | Michael de Causton | |
1366–1369 | William de Gotham | |
1369 | Thomas de Stewkley | |
1371 | John de Donwich | |
1373–1374 | Adam de Lakenheath | |
1374 | John de Donwich | |
1376 | William de Gotham | |
1378–1379 | Richard Scrope | |
1380 | Eudo (or Guy) Zouche | |
1380–1381 | John Cavendish | |
1382 | Guy Zouche | |
1382–1383 | John de Bromyard | |
1383 | John of Neketon | |
1384 | John de Burgh (or Borough) | |
1385 | Thomas Hetherset (or de Hethersett) | |
1386 | John de Burgh (or Borough) | |
1388 | William Colvile | |
1390–1391 | Richard Dereham | |
1391 | William Colvile | |
1392 | John de Neketon | |
1394 | William Colvile | |
1396 | Guy Zouche | |
1400–1402 | Richard de Billingford | |
1404–1408 | Richard Dereham | |
1409–1413 | Richard de Billingford | |
1414 | Stephen le Scrope | |
1415–1422 | John de Rickingale | |
1422–1423 | Thomas de Cobham | |
1424–1426 | Robert Fitzhugh | |
1426 | William Wymbell | |
1427 | Marmaduke Lumley | |
1429–1430 | John Holeroke | |
1431–1432 | William Lascells | |
1432 | Richard de Billingford | |
1433–1435 | Richard Cawdray | |
1436–1445 | John Langton | |
1445–1446 | Nicholas Kenton | |
1447 | John Langton | |
1448 | Robert Ascogh | |
1450–1451 | Nicholas Close | |
1451–1456 | William Percy | |
1456–1458 | Lawrence Booth | |
1458 | William Wilflete (or Wolflet) | |
1459–1460 | Robert Woodlark | |
1461 | Richard Scroope | |
1462–1463 | Robert Woodlark | |
1463–1464 | John Booth | |
1464 | William Wilflete | |
1465–1468 | John Harrison (or Herrison) | |
1466 | William Wilflete | |
1468–1469 | Edward Story | |
1469–1471 | Thomas Rotherham (or Scot) | |
1471–1472 | Edward Story | |
1473–1479 | Thomas Rotherham | |
1479–1483 | John Boynton | |
1483–1485 | Thomas Rotherham | |
1490 | Thomas Cosyn | |
1494–1496 | John Blythe | |
1496–1499 | George Fitzhugh | |
1499–1500 | Thomas Rotherham | |
1500 | Richard Fox | |
1502 | George Fitzhugh | |
1503 | Thomas Ruthall (or Rowthall) | |
1504–1535 | John Fisher | Appointed for life in 1514[2] |
1535–1540 | Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex | |
1540–1547 | Stephen Gardiner | |
1547–1552 | Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset | |
1552–1553 | John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland | |
1553–1555 | Stephen Gardiner | |
1556–1558 | Reginald Pole | |
1559–1598 | William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley | |
1598–1601 | Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex | |
1601–1612 | Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury | |
1612–1614 | Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton | |
1614–1626 | Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk | |
1626–1628 | George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham | |
1628–1649 | Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland | A Royalist officer in the English Civil War from 1643, executed for treason in 1649 |
1649–1651 | Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester | |
1651–1660 | Oliver St John | |
1660–1671 | Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester | Reinstated as Chancellor after the Restoration |
1671–1674 | George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham | |
1674–1682 | James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth | |
1682–1688 | Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle | |
1689–1748 | Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset | |
1748–1768 | Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne | |
1768–1811 | Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton | |
1811–1834 | Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh | |
1834–1840 | John Pratt, 1st Marquess Camden | |
1840–1847 | Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke of Northumberland | |
1847–1861 | Albert, Prince Consort | |
1861–1891 | William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire | |
1892–1908 | Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire | |
1908–1919 | John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh | |
1919–1930 | Arthur Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour | |
1930–1947 | Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley | |
1948–1950 | Jan Smuts | |
1950–1967 | Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder | |
1967–1976 | Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian | |
1976–2011 | Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | |
2011[8]– | David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville |
See also
References
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