- List of Deans of Westminster
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The Deanery at Westminster Abbey
A list of the holders of the office of Dean of Westminster. Initially the office was a successor to that of abbot of Westminster, and was for 10 years a bishopric.
Bishop
intra-ReformationThomas Thirlby 1540–1550 Deans
intra-ReformationWilliam Benson (Abbot Boston) 1540–1549 Richard Cox 1549–1553 Hugh Weston 1553–1556 Abbot
restored by Mary I of EnglandJohn Feckenham 1556–1559 Deans
post-ReformationWilliam Bill 1560–1561 Gabriel Goodman 1561–1601 Lancelot Andrewes 1601–1605 Richard Neile 1605–1610 George Montaigne 1610–1617 Robert Tounson 1617–1620 John Williams 1620–1644 Richard Steward (never installed)[1] 1644–1651 John Earle 1660–1662 John Dolben[2] 1662–1683 Thomas Sprat[2] 1683–1713 Francis Atterbury[2] 1713–1723 Samuel Bradford[2] 1723–1731 Joseph Wilcocks[2] 1731–1756 Zachary Pearce[2] 1756–1768 John Thomas[2] 1768–1793 Samuel Horsley[2] 1793–1802 William Vincent 1802–1815 John Ireland 1816–1842 Thomas Turton 1842–1845 Samuel Wilberforce 1845 William Buckland 1845–1856 Richard Chenevix Trench 1856–1864 Arthur Penrhyn Stanley 1864–1881 George Granville Bradley 1881–1902 Joseph Armitage Robinson 1902–1911 Herbert Edward Ryle 1911–1925 William Foxley Norris 1925–1937 Paul de Labilliere 1938–1946 Alan Campbell Don 1946–1959 Eric Symes Abbott, KCVO 1959–1974 Edward Frederick Carpenter, KCVO 1974–1985 Michael Mayne, KCVO 1986–1996 Arthur Wesley Carr, KCVO 1997–2006 John Robert Hall[3] 2006 — Notes
- ^ Commonwealth period
- ^ a b c d e f g h For a time it was customary for the Deanery of Westminster to go along with the Bishop of Rochester. These deans held both offices concurrently.
- ^ London Gazette: no. 58165. p. 16399. 28 November 2006. Retrieved 14 October 2008.
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