List of presidents of Queens' College, Cambridge
Appearance
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This is a list of presidents of Queens' College, Cambridge. While the head of most colleges are called masters, the head of Queens' College, Cambridge, has been called the president since 1448.[1] Below is the list of presidents that have served the college:
Name | Portrait | Dates | Notes |
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Andrew Dokett | 1448–1484 | English churchman and academic | |
Thomas Wilkynson | 1484–1505 | Vicar, Canon of Ripon | |
John Cardinal Fisher | ![]() |
1505–1508 | Catholic Bishop of Rochester; executed by Henry VIII for refusing to accept him as head of the Church of England in 1535, canonised in 1935. Namesake of the Fisher Building. |
Robert Bekensaw | 1508–1519 | English churchman and academic | |
John Jenyn | 1519–1525 | Cleric | |
Thomas Forman | 1525–1527 | Rector of All Hallows, London. Early Reformer. | |
William Frankleyn | 1527–1529 | English churchman, dean of Windsor | |
Simon Heynes | 1529–1537 | Theologian. Early reformer. | |
William May | 1537–1553, 1559–1560 |
Theologian and dean of St Paul's Cathedral; his report saved the Cambridge colleges from dissolution under Henry VIII | |
William Glyn | 1553–1557 | Also Bishop of Bangor | |
Thomas Pecocke | 1557–1559 | Theologian | |
John Stokes | 1560–1568 | Also Archdeacon of York | |
William Chaderton | ![]() |
1568–1579 | Later Bishop of Chester and Bishop of Lincoln |
Humphrey Tyndall | 1579–1614 | Theologian, Dean of Ely and Archdeacon of Stafford | |
John Davenant | ![]() |
1614–1622 | Later Bishop of Salisbury |
John Mansell | 1622–1631 | Churchman, theologian, philosopher | |
Edward Martin | 1631–1644, 1660–1662 |
Sent the college silver to King Charles I; imprisoned in the Tower of London by Oliver Cromwell; restored to presidency under Charles II | |
Herbert Palmer | ![]() |
1644–1647 | Puritan and member of the Westminster Assembly; installed as President by Cromwell |
Thomas Horton | 1647–1660 | Theologian; removed by the restoration of the monarchy | |
Anthony Sparrow | ![]() |
1662–1667 | Later Bishop of Exeter and Bishop of Norwich |
William Wells | 1667–1675 | Archdeacon of Colchester | |
Henry James | ![]() |
1675–1717 | Theologian, Regius Professor of Divinity. |
John Davies | ![]() |
1717–1732 | Clergyman and classicist. |
William Sedgwick | ![]() |
1732–1760 | Clergyman and academic. |
Robert Plumptre | ![]() |
1760–1788 | Clergyman and academic. |
Isaac Milner | ![]() |
1788–1820 | Clergyman, mathematician, inventor, abolitionist. Lucasian Professor of Mathematics and Dean of Carlisle. |
Henry Godfrey | 1820–1832 | Clergyman and academic. | |
Joshua King | ![]() |
1832–1857 | Mathematician, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. |
George Phillips | ![]() |
1857–1892 | Clergyman, mathematician, scholar of Semitic languages. |
William Magan Campion | ![]() |
1892–1896 | Clergyman and mathematician. |
Herbert Edward Ryle | ![]() |
1896–1901 | Theologian, Hulsean Professor of Divinity. Later Bishop of Exeter, Bishop of Winchester and Dean of Westminster |
Frederic Chase | 1901–1906 | Theologian, Norrisian Professor of Divinity. Later Bishop of Ely. | |
Thomas Cecil Fitzpatrick | 1906–1931 | Clergyman and physicist. Namesake of Fitzpatrick Hall in Cripps Court. | |
John Archibald Venn | 1931–1958 | Economist and government advisor. Son of the logician John Venn. | |
Arthur Armitage | 1958–1970 | Barrister and government advisor. Namesake of the Armitage Room above Fitzpatrick Hall. | |
Sir Derek Bowett | 1970–1982 | International lawyer, Whewell Professor of International Law. | |
Lord Oxburgh | ![]() |
1982–1988 | Geologist and geophysicist |
Sir John Polkinghorne | ![]() |
1988–1996 | KBE; FRS; physicist and theologian; extensive writer on science-faith relations; Templeton Prize 2002; member of General Synod |
Lord Eatwell | ![]() |
1997–2020 | Economist, previously chief economic adviser to Neil Kinnock and chairman of the British Library; Opposition Spokesman for the Treasury in the House of Lords. |
Mohamed A. El-Erian | ![]() |
2020 – | Economist, previously Chief Executive Officer at PIMCO |
References
[edit]- ^ "Presidents". Queens' College, Cambridge. Retrieved 24 November 2023.