Appendices: List of Deans from the Conquest

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

Citation:

'Appendices: List of Deans from the Conquest', in Registrum Statutorum et Consuetudinum Ecclesiae Cathedralis Sancti Pauli Londiniensis, ed. W Sparrow Simpson (London, 1873), British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/st-pauls-register/pp468-470 [accessed 7 March 2025].

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