Appendices: List of Deans from the Conquest

Registrum Statutorum et Consuetudinum Ecclesiae Cathedralis Sancti Pauli Londiniensis. Originally published by Nichols and Sons, London, 1873.

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'Appendices: List of Deans from the Conquest', in Registrum Statutorum et Consuetudinum Ecclesiae Cathedralis Sancti Pauli Londiniensis, (London, 1873) pp. 468-470. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/st-pauls-register/pp468-470 [accessed 24 April 2024]

DEANS OF S. PAUL'S SINCE THE NORMAN CONQUEST. (fn. 1)

Date of some Act as Dean. Accession. Translation. Death.
Ulstan or Wlmann 1085–1107
William 1111 — — 1138
Ralph de Langford 1142
Taurinus de Stamford c.1152–1162
Hugh de Marinis (de Marney) 1160–1181
Ralph de Diceto c.1181–1204
Alardus de Burnham c.1204 — — 1216
Gervase de Hobrugg
William de Basinges 1212
Robert de Watford (or Dowtford) 1218–1227
Martin de Pateshull 1228 — — 1229
Walter de Langford
Richard Weathershead — — 1229
Geoffrey de Lucy 1231 — — 1241
William de S. Maria — 1241 — 1243
Henry de Cornhill 1243 — — 1254
Walter of London (or de Salerne) — 1254 1256 1258
Robert de Barthone (or de Barton) 1259 1256
Peter de Newport
Richard Talbot — — 1262 1262
Geoffrey de Feringes 1263
John de Chishul 1268 — 1273
Hervey de Borham — 1273 — 1276
Thomas de Ingaldesthorp (or Inglethorp) — 1276–7 1283
Roger de la Leye (or Lee) — 1283 — 1285
William de Montford (or Montfort) — 1285 — 1294
Ralph de Baldock (or Baudake) — 1294 1304
Reymund de la Goth — 1306 1307
Arnaldus Frangerius de Cantilupo — 1307
John de Sandale — 1311 1316
Richard de Newport — 1314 1317
Vitalis de Testa — — 1323
John de Everdon — 1323 — 1336–7
Gilbert de Bruera — 1336 — 1353
Richard de Kilmyngton — 1353 or 4 — 1361
Walter de Alderbury — 1362
Thomas Trillek — 1363 1364
John de Appleby 1368 1364
Robert Brewer 1376
Thomas de Evere (or Eure) — 1389 — 1400
Thomas Stow — 1400 — 1405
Thomas Moor — 1406–7 — 1421
Reginald Kentwode — 1421–2 — 1441
Thomas Lisieux — 1441 — 1456
Laurence Bothe (or Bathe) — 1456 1457
William Say — 1457 — 1468
Roger Radelyff — 1468 — 1471
Thomas Wynterbourne — 1471 — 1478
William Worseley — 1478–9 — 1499
Robert Sherbourn — 1499 1505
John Colet — 1505 — 1519
Richard Pace — 1519 — 1532
Richard Sampson — 1536 1540
John Incent (or Innocent) — 1540 — 1545
William May — 1545–6 — 1560
John de Feckenham (alias Howman) — 1553–4 1556
Henry Cole — 1556 — 1579
Alexander Nowell — 1560 — 1601–2
John Overall — 1602 1614
Valentine Carey — 1614 1621
John Donne — 1621 — 1631
Thomas Winniffe — 1631 1642
Matthew Nicholas — 1660 — 1661
John Barwick — 1661 — 1664
William Sancroft — 1664 1677–8
Edward Stillingfleet — 1677–8 1689
John Tillotson — 1689 1691
William Sherlock — 1691 — 1707
Henry Godolphin, res. 1726 — 1707
Francis Hare — 1726 — 1740
Joseph Butler — 1740 1750
Thomas Secker — 1750 1758
John Hume — 1758 1766
Frederick Cornwallis — 1766 1768
Thomas Newton — 1768 — 1782
Thomas Thurlow — 1782 1787
George Pretyman (Tomline) — 1787 1820
William Van Mildert — 1820 1826
Charles Richard Sumner — 1826 1827
Edward Copleston — 1827 — 1849
Henry Hart Milman — 1849 — 1868
Henry Longueville Mansel — 1868 — 1871
Richard William Church — 1871

Footnotes

  • 1. I have constructed this list from the materials supplied by Le Neve's Fasti (edit. T. Duffus Hardy). When the actual date of election to the Deanery is not known, the date given is that of some public act in which the Dean took part.
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