List of rectors of Exeter College, Oxford

The following is a list of rectors of Exeter College, Oxford.

Rectors of Exeter College

1318–1566

• John Parys (1318–1319)
• Stephen de Pippecote (1322–1325)
• John de Sevenaysshe (1325–1326)
• John de Kelly (1326–1327)
• Richard de Pyn (1327–1330)
• Henry de Tiverton (1333–1344)
• William Dobbe (1334–1335)
• William de Palmorna (1336–1337)
• John de Blankeswille (1344)
• Robert de Trethewy (1354 – June 1357)
• John Halle (1357 – Spring 1359)
• John Wiseburg (May – October 1359)
• Robert de Clyste (1359–1365)
• Robert Blakedon (1365–1366)
• John Otery (1367)
• Thomas de Kelly (1368–1369)
• William Franke (1370–1371)
• John Dagenet (1371–1372)
• Robert de Lydeford (1373–1374)
• Martin Lydeford (1374)
• John More (1374–1375)
• Thomas Worth (1375–1377)
• Thomas White (1377–1378)
• Richard Browne (1378–1379)
• Lawrence Stevine (1379 – March 1380)
• William Talkarn or Talcaryn (March – October 1380)
• William Slade (1380–1384)
• Thomas Dyre (1385–1389)
• Thomas Hyndeman (16 October 1389 – 2 April 1390)
• Richard Mark or Marks (2 April 1390 – 1391)
• Helias Stoke (14 October 1391 – 1393)
• Robert Marschel (11 October 1393 – 1394)
• John Gynne (1395–1399)
• John Jakys (11 October 1399 – 1400)
• Richard Penwyne (1400–1401)
• Geoffrey Prentys (1401–1402)
• John Cowling (1402–1404)
• John Schute (1404–1405)
• Thomas Noreys (1405–1406)
• William Penbegyll (1406–1407)
• William Fylham (1407–1408)
• William Grene (1409–1411)
• Walter Trengoff (1411–1413)
• Benedict Brente (1413–1414)
• William Fylham (1415)
• John Alwarde (1416–1417)
• Henry Whitehead (1417–1418)
• John Alwarde (1418–1419)
• Ralph Morewyll (1419–1422)
• Edmund Fitchet (1422–1424)
• John Colyforde (1425)
• William Palmer (1425–1432)
• John Rowe (1433–1440)
• John Rygge (1440–1441)
• John Lyndon (1441–1442)
• John Westlake (1442–1443)
• John Evelyn (1443–1447)
• Richard French (1449–1453)
• Walter Windsor (1453–1457)
• William Mogys or Mogas (1457–1459)
• William Thomas (1459–1460)
• William Baron (1460–1464)
• John Phylypp (1464–1470)
• William Major (1471–1474)
• Richard Bradleghe (1475 – 14 March 1478)
• William Mylplaysh (14 March – 14 July 1478)
• John Orelle or Oryal (4 July 1478 – 1479)
• William Meryfeld (1479–1480)
• James Babbe (1482–1484)
• John Smythe (1485–1487)
• Thomas Ruer (1487–1488)
• Richard Panter (1488 – 20 December 1494)
• Richard Roberd or Roberts or Robyns (Lent – October 1495)
• John Atwell (1495–1499)
• Thomas Michell (1499–1501)
• John Rugge or Rigge (1501–1502)
• Gerendus Raffe (1503–1504)
• William Bery Bury (1506–1508)
• Symon Todde (1512 – Summer 1514)
• John Rugge or Rigge (1515–1516)
• Thomas Vyvyan (27 March 1518 – 8 October 1519)
• William Smythe (1519–1521)
• Philip Bale (14 December 1521 – 6 October 1526)
• Edmund Fletcher (1526–1529)
• John Bere (1529–1531)
• John Pekyns (1531–1534)
• John Bery or Bury (1534–1536)
• John Dotyn (1537–1539)
• John French (25 October 1539 – 1542)
• Henry Laurence (17 October 1542 – 9 October 1543)
• Augustine Crosse (17 October 1543 – 1546)
• William More (17 October 1546 – 1553)
• William Corindon or Corydon or Corndon (1553–1555)
• Stephen Marks (17 October 1555 – 1556)
• Philip Randell (17 October 1556 – 17 October 1557)
• Robert Newton (17 October 1557 – 17 October 1559)
• John Neale (18 October 1560 – 1566)

1566–1887

• John Neale (
  Whitsuntide
  1566 – deprived 12 October 1570)
• Robert Newton (31 October 1570 – resigned 4 October 1578 (see above))
• Thomas Glasier (21 October 1578 – d. 9 March 1592)
• Thomas Holland (24 April 1592 – d. 17 March 1612)
• John Prideaux (4 April 1612 – resigned 3 August 1642)
• George Hakewill (23 August 1642 – d. 2 April 1649)
• John Conant (7 June 1649 – deprived 1 September 1662)
• Joseph Maynard (18 September 1662 – resigned 30 April 1666)
• Arthur Bury (27 May 1666 – deprived 26 July 1690)
• William Paynter (15 August 1690 –d. 18 February 1716)
• Mathew Hole (8 March 1716 – d. 19 July 1730)
• John Conybeare (6 August 1730 – resigned 29 January 1733)
• Joseph Atwell (17 February 1733 – resigned 3 March 1737)
• James Edgcumbe (11 April 1737 – d. 16 May 1750)
• Francis Webber (5 June 1750 – d. 29 September 1771)
• Thomas Bray (22 October 1771 – d. 28 March 1785)
• Thomas Stinton (15 April 1785 – d. 6 July 1787)
• Henry Richards
  (23 July 1797 – d. 19 December 1807)
• John Cole (7 January 1808 – d. 13 October 1819)
• John Collier Jones (6 November 1819 – d. 7 August 1838)
• Joseph Loscombe Richards (1 September 1838 – d. 27 February 1854)
• John Prideaux Lightfoot (18 March 1854 – d. 23 March 1887)

1887–present

• William Jackson Jr (15 April 1887 – resigned 25 March 1913)
• Lewis Richard Farnell (15 April 1913 – resigned 19 September 1928)
• Robert Ranulph Marett (10 October 1928 – d. 18 February 1943)
• Eric Arthur Barber (26 September 1943 – 1956)
• Sir Kenneth Clinton Wheare
  (1956 – resigned 1972)
• Greig Barr (1972 – resigned 1982) (d. 23 April 2008)
• The Lord Crowther-Hunt (1982 – d. 16 February 1987)
• Sir Richard Norman (1987 – d. 6 June 1993)
• Marilyn Butler (1993–2004)
• Dame Frances Cairncross (2004–2014)
• Sir Rick Trainor (October 2014)
• CB
  (elected June 2023 to take effect from October 2024)

References

• 'Exeter College', A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3: The University of Oxford (1954), pp. 107–118. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63875. Date accessed: 25 February 2008.