- List of Vice-Chancellors of the University of Cambridge
The
Vice-Chancellor of theUniversity of Cambridge is the main administrative and academic officer of the university, and is elected by theRegent House for a term of up to seven years.Prior to 1992, the position was part-time, the post-holder having other college and faculty duties. In fact, between
1587 and1992 all holders were concurrently Masters of one of the University's colleges. Until the late nineteenth century, the term was generally one year, though this was extended to two years until the post became full-time in 1992.Vice-Chancellors
Part-time
*1412 Thomas Ashwell
*1417Henry Stockton
*1418Nicholas de Swaffham
*1454Nicholas Gay
*1457William Millington
*1463John Roclyffe
*1465Thomas Stoyle
*1467William Uttyng
*1468 William Smyth
*1470Edmund Conisborough
*1472Thomas Stoyle
*1475William Towne
*1485Thomas Tuppin
*1487John Riplingham
*1489John Camberton
*1493William Rawson
*1494William Stockdale
*1495John Dolman (or Dowman)
*1496Henry Rudd
*1497 John Smith
*1499 John Smith
*1500Henry Babington
*1501John Fisher
*1502Humphrey Fitzwilliam
*1503Geoffrey Knight
*1504 John Smith
*1505 Richard Burton
*1506 John Eccleston
*1507 William Robson
*1508William Buckenham
*1510 Thomas Thompson
*1512John Fawne
*1514 John Eccleston
*1516Robert Dowsing (or Dussing)
*1517Edmund Natares (or Natures)
*1518 John Watson
*1520Ed. Natares (or Natures)
*1521Thomas Stackhouse
*1522 John Edmunds
*1523 Thomas Green
*1524Henry Bullock
*1525Ed. Natares (or Natures)
*1527 John Edmunds
*1529William Buckmaster
*1530 John Watson
*1532Simon Heynes
*1534John Crayford
*1536Francis Mallet
*1537George Day
*1538William Buckmaster
*1540 John Edmunds
*1540Francis Mallet
*1541Richard Standish
*1542 John Edmunds
*1542Richard Standish
*1543 John Edmunds
*1543Sir Thomas Smith
*1545John Madew
*1545Matthew Parker
*1546John Madew
*1548William Bill
*1548Matthew Parker
*1549Walter Haddon
*1550John Madew
*1551Andrew Perne
*1552Edward Hawford
*1552 Edwin Sandys (ejected)
*1553 John Young
*1554 William Glyn
*1554Cuthbert Scott
*1556Andrew Perne
*1556John Pory (or Porie)
*1557Robert Brassey
*1558Edmund Cosyn
*1559Andrew Perne
*1560Henry Harvey
*1561Philip Baker
*1562Francis Newton
*1563Edward Hawford
*1564 Robert Beaumont
*1565John Stokes
*1566 Robert Beaumont
*1567Roger Kelke
*1567 Richard Longworth
*1568 John Young
*1569 John May
*1570John Whitgift
*1571Roger Kelke
*1572Thomas Bynge
*1573John Whitgift
*1574Andrew Perne
*1575John Still
*1576Roger Goad
*1577Richard Howland
*1578Thomas Bynge
*1579John Hatcher
*1580Andrew Perne
*1581William Fulke
*1582John Bell
*1583Richard Howland
*1584Robert Norgate
*1585Humphrey Tindall
*1586John Copcot
*1587Thomas Legge
*1588Thomas Nevile
*1589 Thomas Preston
*1590Robert Soame
*1592Thomas Legge
*1592John Still
*1593John Duport
*1595Roger Goad
*1596John Jegon
*1599Robert Soame
*1600John Jegon
*1601John Duport
*1602 William Smith
*1603John Cowell
*1605Richard Clayton
*1606Samuel Harsnett
*1607Roger Goad
*1608Thomas Jegon
*1609John Duport
*1610Fogge Newton
*1611Barnabas Gooch (or Goche)
*1612Valentine Cary
*1613Clement Corbet
*1614Samuel Harsnett
*1615Owen Gwyn
*1616 John Hills
*1617John Richardson
*1618William Branthwaite
*1618John Gostlyn
*1619Robert Scott
*1620 Samuel Ward
*1621Leonard Mawe
*1622Jerome Beale
*1623Thomas Paske
*1624John Mansell
*1625John Gostlyn
*1625Henry Smyth
*1627Thomas Bainbridge
*1628Matthew Wren
*1629Henry Butts
*1631Thomas Comber
*1632Benjamin Lany
*1633Richard Love
*1634William Beale
*1635Henry Smyth
*1636Thomas Comber
*1637Ralph Brownrigg
*1639John Cosin
*1640Richard Holdsworth
*1643Ralph Brownrigg
*1645 Thomas Hill
*1647John Arrowsmith
*1648Anthony Tuckney
*1649Thomas Horton
*1650Benjamin Whichcote
*1651Samuel Bolton
*1652Richard Minshall
*1653Lazarus Seaman
*1654John Lightfoot
*1655Theophilus Dillingham
*1657John Worthington
*1658John Bond
*1659William Dillingham
*1660Henry Ferne
*1661Henry Ferne
*1662Edward Rainbowe
*1662William Dillingham
*1663James Fleetwood
*1664Sparrow Anthony
*1665Francis Wilford
*1666John Howorth (or Haworth)
*1667James Fleetwood
*1668Edmund Boldero
*1669James Duport
*1670John Breton
*1671Robert Mapletoft
*1672William Wells
*1673John Spencer
*1674Edmund Boldero
*1675Isaac Barrow
*1676Sir Thomas Page
*1677Thomas Holbech
*1678Francis Turner (bishop)
*1679John Eachard
*1680Humfrey Gower
*1681Nathaniel Coga
*1682John Copleston
*1683 Henry James
*1684Samuel Blyth
*1685William Saywell
*1686John Peachell
*1687John Balderston
*1687Hon. John Mountague
*1688John Covel
*1689James Johnson
*1690Charles Roderick
*1691Gabriel Quadring
*1692George Oxenden
*1693William Stanley
*1694Thomas Browne
*1695John Eachard
*1696Henry James
*1698Sir William Dawes
*1699Thomas Green
*1700Richard Bentley
*1701Thomas Richardson
*1702Charles Ashton
*1703George Bramston
*1704Sir John Ellys
*1705Bardsey Fisher
*1706John Balderston
*1707Edward Lany
*1708John Covel
*1709Charles Roderick
*1710Sir Nathaniel Lloyd
*1711Gabriel Quadring
*1712 John Adams
*1713Thomas Green
*1714Thomas Sherlock
*1715Daniel Waterland
*1716William Grigg
*1717Sir Thomas Gooch
*1720Thomas Crosse
*1722Andrew Snape
*1724 William Savage
*1725 John Davies
*1726Joseph Craven
*1727Robert Lambert
*1728John Frankland
*1729Robert Lambert
*1730Matthias Mawson
*1732 Charles Morgan
*1733Roger Long
*1734William Towers
*1735 John Adams
*1736John Wilcox
*1737William Richardson
*1738John Whalley
*1739Edward Hubbard
*1740Sir Edward Simpson
*1741William Sedgwick
*1742 Robert Smith
*1743William George
*1744Kenrick Prescot
*1745George Henry Rooke
*1746Edmund Castle
*1747Francis Sawyer Parris
*1748Thomas Chapman
*1749Edmund Keene
*1751John Wilcox
*1752Philip Yonge
*1754Hugh Thomas
*1755Edmund Law
*1756 John Sumner
*1757 John Green
*1758Lynford Caryl
*1759Sir James Burrough
*1760George Sandby
*1761Robert Plumptre
*1762Peter Stephen Godard
*1763William Elliston
*1764John Barnardiston
*1765William Samuel Powell
*1766 John Smith
*1767Sir James Marriott
*1768John Hinchliffe
*1769William Richardson
*1770John Sumner
*1771 James Brown
*1772 William Cooke
*1773Lynford Caryl
*1774Hon. Barton Wallop
*1775Richard Farmer
*1776John Chevalier
*1777Hugh Thomas
*1777Robert Plumptre
*1778William Colman
*1779Lowther Yates
*1780John Barker
*1781Richard Beadon
*1783John Torkington
*1784Peter Peckard
*1785Joseph Turner
*1786Sir James Marriott
*1786William Elliston
*1787Richard Farmer
*1788Francis Barnes
*1789William Pearce
*1790William Craven
*1791Thomas Postlethwaite
*1792Isaac Milner
*1793William Colman
*1794Lowther Yates
*1795Philip Douglas
*1796Richard Belward
*1797Robert Towerson Cory
*1798Humphrey Sumner
*1799William Lort Mansel
*1800William Gretton
*1801Joseph Procter
*1802Humphrey Sumner
*1803Martin Davy
*1804John Torkington
*1805Joseph Turner
*1806William Pearce
*1807Francis Barnes
*1808Edward Pearson
*1809Isaac Milner
*1810Philip Douglas
*1811Thomas Browne
*1812John Davie
*1813Robert Towerson Cory
*1813William Chafy
*1814George Thackeray
*1815 John Kaye
*1816James Wood
*1817William Webb
*1818Hon. George Neville
*1819William Frere
*1820Christopher Wordsworth
*1821William French
*1822Henry Godfrey
*1823 John Lamb
*1824Thomas Le Blanc
*1825Joseph Procter
*1826Christopher Wordsworth
*1827Martin Davy
*1828Gilbert Ainslie
*1829William Chafy
*1830George Thackeray
*1831John Graham
*1832William Webb
*1833Joshua King
*1834William French
*1835George John Archdale (or Archdall)
*1836Gilbert Ainslie
*1837Thomas Worsley
*1838William Hodgson
*1839Ralph Tatham
*1840John Graham
*1841George John Archdale (or Archdall)
*1842William Whewell
*1843William Hodgson
*1844Robert Phelps
*1845Ralph Tatham
*1846Henry Philpott
*1847Robert Phelps
*1848Henry Wilkinson Cookson
*1849James Cartmell
*1850George Elwes Corrie
*1851Richard Okes
*1852James Pulling
*1853Thomas Charles Geldart
*1854Edwin Guest
*1855William Whewell
*1856Henry Philpott
*1858William Henry Bateson
*1859Latimer Neville
*1861George Phillips
*1862Edward Atkinson
*1863Henry Wilkinson Cookson
*1865Cartmell James
*1867William Hepworth Thompson
*1868Atkinson Edward
*1870Power John
*1872Henry Wilkinson Cookson
*1874Samuel George Phear
*1876Atkinson Edward
*1878John Power
*1879Edward Henry Perowne
*1881James Porter
*1884Norman McLeod Ferrers
*1885Charles Anthony Swainson
*1886 Charles Taylor
*1888Charles Edward Searle
*1889Henry Montagu Butler
*1891John Peile
*1893Augustus Austen Leigh
*1895Charles Smith
*1897Alex Hill
* 1899William Chawner
* 1901 SirAdolphus William Ward
* 1902Frederick Henry Chase
* 1904Edward Anthony Beck
* 1906Ernest Stewart Roberts
* 1908Arthur James Mason
* 1910Robert Forsyth Scott
* 1912Stuart A. Donaldson (resigned)
* 1913Montague Rhodes James
* 1915Thomas Cecil Fitzpatrick
* 1917 SirArthur Everett Shipley
* 1919Peter Giles
* 1921Edmund Courtenay Pearce
* 1924 SirAlbert Charles Seward
* 1926George Arthur Weekes
* 1928Thomas Cecil Fitzpatrick
* 1929Allen Beville Ramsay
* 1931Will Spens
* 1933John Forbes Cameron
* 1935Godfrey Harold Alfred Wilson
* 1937Henry Roy Dean
* 1939Ernest Alfred Benians
* 1941John Archibald Venn
* 1943Thomas Shirley Hele
* 1945Henry Thirkill
* 1947Charles Earle Raven
* 1949Sydney Castle Roberts
* 1951 SirLionel Ernest Howard Whitby
* 1953 Henry Urmston Willink
* 1955Brian Westerdale Downs
* 1957 Edgar Douglas Adrian Lord Adrian
* 1959 SirHerbert Butterfield
* 1961 SirWilliam Ivor Jennings
* 1963John Sandwith Boys Smith
* 1965Arthur Llewellyn Armitage
* 1967 SirEric Ashby
* 1969 Rev'dWilliam Owen Chadwick
* 1971William Alexander Deer
* 1973John Wilfrid Linnett
* 1975 DameAlice Rosemary Murray
* 1977 SirAlan Howard Cottrell
* 1979 SirHenry Peter Francis Swinnerton-Dyer
* 1981 SirFrancis Harry Hinsley
* 1983 Sir William John Hughes Butterfield
* 1985 Richard Hume Adrian
* 1987Michael William McCrum Full-time
* 1992 Sir David Williams
* 1996 Sir Alec Broers
* 2003 Professor Alison Richardee also
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List of Chancellors of the University of Cambridge
*List of Vice-Chancellors of the University of Oxford External links
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