List of Deans of Durham
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This is a list of deans of Durham Cathedral
, England.
Durham Cathedral
The Cathedral Church of Christ, Blessed Mary the Virgin and St Cuthbert of Durham is a cathedral in the city of Durham, England, the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Durham. The Bishopric dates from 995, with the present cathedral being founded in AD 1093...
, England.
- 1541–1551 Hugh WhiteheadHugh WhiteheadHugh Whitehead was the last prior of the Benedictine monastery at Durham in England. The monastery was dissolved by King Henry VIII in 1540. Whitehead would go on to become the cathedral's first dean.-References:...
, first dean. - 1551–1553 Robert HorneRobert Horne (bishop)Robert Horne was an English churchman, and a leading reforming Protestant. One of the Marian exiles, he was subsequently bishop of Winchester from 1560 to 1580....
- 1553–1558 Thomas WatsonThomas Watson (bishop)Thomas Watson was a Catholic Bishop, notable among Catholics for his descriptions of the Protestant Reformation.-Early life:Watson was born near Durham in 1515 at a time when England was still a Catholic country ....
- 1558–1559 Thomas Robertson
- 1559–1561 Robert Horne (again).
- 1561–1563 Ralph Skinner
- 1563–1579 William WhittinghamWilliam WhittinghamWilliam Whittingham was an English Biblical scholar and religious reformer. Educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, he became a zealous Protestant; as such he found it prudent to flee to France when Mary I ascended the throne of England....
- 1580–1581 Thomas WilsonThomas Wilson (rhetorician)Thomas Wilson was an English diplomat, judge, and privy councillor in the government of Elizabeth I. He is now remembered for his Logique and The Arte of Rhetorique , an influential text...
- 1583–1595 Tobias MatthewTobias MatthewTobias Matthew was Archbishop of York.-Life:He was the son of Sir John Matthew of Ross in Herefordshire, England, and of his wife Eleanor Crofton of Ludlow. He was born at Bristol and was educated at Wells, Somerset, and then in succession at University College and Christ Church, Oxford...
- 1596–1606 William James
- 1606–1620 Adam NewtonAdam Newton (dean)Sir Adam Newton was a Scottish scholar, royal tutor, dean of Durham and baronet.-Life:He spent part of his early life in France, passing himself off as a priest and teaching at the college of St. Maixant in Poitou. There, for some time between 1580 and 1590, he instructed the future theologian...
- 1620–1638 Richard Hunt
- 1639–1645 Walter Balcanquall
- 1646 Christopher PotterChristopher PotterChristopher Potter was an English academic and clergyman, Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford, controversialist and prominent supporter of William Laud.-Life:...
- 1646–1659 William FullerWilliam Fuller (dean)William Fuller was dean of Ely and later dean of Durham. He was in serious trouble with parishioners and Parliament during the early 1640s.-Life:...
- 1660–1661 John BarwickJohn BarwickJohn Barwick was an English royalist churchman and Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral.-Early life:He was born at Witherslack, in Westmorland. John was the third of five sons, and he and his brother Peter Barwick were the ones given an education. After time at local grammar schools John was sent to...
- 1661–1684 John Sudbury
- 1684–1690 Denis GranvilleDenis GranvilleDenis Granville was an English non-juring churchman, Dean of Durham and then Jacobite exile.-Life:The youngest son of Sir Bevil Grenville, he was born 13 February 1637 and baptised at Kilkhampton, Cornwall. He matriculated as a gentleman-commoner of Exeter College, Oxford on 6 August 1658. He was...
- 1691–1699 Thomas ComberThomas Comber (dean of Durham)-Life:From a family at Barkham, Sussex, his father, James Comber, was the fourth son of John Comber, who was uncle to Thomas Comber, dean of Carlisle. His mother was Mary, daughter of Bryan Burton of Westerham, Kent, and widow of Edward Hampden...
- 1700–1728 John MontagueJohn Montagu (Trinity)John Montagu or Mountague was the fourth son of the renowned admiral, Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, killed at the Battle of Solebay...
- 1728–1746 Henry Bland
- 1746–1774 Spencer Cowper
- 1774–1777 Thomas Dampier
- 1777–1788 William Digby
- 1788–1794 John Hinchliffe
- 1794–1824 James Cornwallis
- 1824–1827 Charles Henry HallCharles Henry HallCharles Henry Hall was an English churchman and academic, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford and then Dean of Durham.-Life:He was the son of Charles Hall, dean of Bocking, Essex, and uncle of watercolour artist John Frederick Tayler. He was admitted to Westminster School in 1775, was elected Christ...
- 1827–1840 John Jenkinson
- 1840–1869 George WaddingtonGeorge Waddington (historian)George Waddington was an English clergyman, traveller and church historian.-Life:...
- 1869-1894 William Charles Lake
- 1894-1912 George William KitchinGeorge William KitchinGeorge William Kitchin was the first Chancellor of the University of Durham, from the institution of the role in 1908 till his death in 1912. He was also the last Dean of Durham Cathedral to govern the university....
- 1912–1918 Herbert Hensley HensonHerbert Hensley HensonHerbert Hensley Henson was an Anglican priest, a controversialist and Bishop of Durham...
- 1918-1933 James Edward Cowell WelldonJames Edward Cowell WelldonJames Edward Cowell Welldon was an English clergyman, Bishop of Calcutta, and scholar.-Early life:Welldon was born in 1854 in Tonbridge, Kent, the son of the Rev. Edward Welldon, the second master of Tonbridge School. He was educated at Eton and was named the Newcastle scholar in 1873...
- 1933–1951 Cyril Argentine Alington
- 1951-1974 John Herbert Severn WildJohn Herbert Severn WildThe Very Revd. John Herbert Severn Wild was Dean of Durham and Master of University College, University of Oxford.J. H. S. Wild was an undergraduate at Brasenose College, Oxford where he studied Greats. He became an assistant curate in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.Wild was then a Chaplain Fellow of...
- 1974–1979 Eric William HeatonEric William HeatonEric William Heaton MA was an Old Testament scholar and a former Dean of Christ Church, Oxford .Eric Heaton's father was a sheep farmer at Long Preston in the West Riding of Yorkshire....
- 1980-1988 Peter Richard BaelzPeter Richard BaelzThe Very Reverend Peter Richard Baelz was an Anglican Dean from 1980 until 1988. Born on 27 July 1923, he was educated at Dulwich and Cambridge University. He was ordained in 1950 and began his career with curacies in Bournville and Sherborne . After this he held incumbencies at Wishaw,...
- 1989–2002 John Robert ArnoldJohn Robert ArnoldJohn Robert Arnold OBE is a retired Anglican priest and noted author.Arnold was educated at Christ’s Hospital and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1960 and was then a curate at Holy Trinity, Millhouses, Sheffield then chaplain and lecturer at the University of Southampton...
- 2003-present Michael SadgroveMichael SadgroveThe Very Reverend Michael Sadgrove is a noted theological author and the current Dean of Durham and a former Dean of Sheffield Cathedral. Educated at University College School, London, and Balliol College, Oxford, he was ordained in 1975. He was a Tutor at Sarum College from 1976 until 1982....