List of Provosts of King's College, Cambridge
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The following persons have served as Provost of King's College, Cambridge
King's College, Cambridge
King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college's full name is "The King's College of our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge", but it is usually referred to simply as "King's" within the University....

 since its foundation in 1441.


Provost Appointed
William Millington 1441
John Chedworth 1447
Robert Wodelark 1452
Walter Field 1479
John Dogget
John Doget
John Doget was an English diplomat, scholar and humanist. He was the nephew of Cardinal Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury. He was born in Sherborne, Dorset, and was probably educated in Bourchier's household before being admitted to Eton College as a king's scholar about 1447...

1499
John Argentine
John Argentine
John Argentine was an English physician who attended Edward V of England and later Arthur, Prince of Wales and was Provost of King's College, Cambridge .-Life:...

1501
Richard Hatton 1508
Robert Hacomblen 1509
Edward Fox
Edward Foxe
Edward Foxe was an English churchman, Bishop of Hereford. He was the most Lutheran of Henry VIII's bishops, and assisted in drafting the Ten Articles of 1536....

1528
George Day
George Day (bishop)
George Day was Bishop of Chichester.-Life:He graduated at the University of Cambridge in 1520–21, and became a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge on 19 September 1522...

1538
John Cheke
John Cheke
Sir John Cheke was an English classical scholar and statesman, notable as the first Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge University....

1549
Richard Atkinson 1553
Robert Brassie 1556
Philip Baker 1558
Roger Goad
Roger Goad
Roger Goad was an Engish academic theologian, Provost of King's College, Cambridge, and three times Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.-Life:...

1570
Fogge Newton 1610
William Smith 1612
Samuel Collins
Samuel Collins (theologian)
Samuel Collins was an English clergyman and academic, Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge and Provost of King's College, Cambridge.-Life:...

1615
Benjamin Whichcote
Benjamin Whichcote
Benjamin Whichcote was a British Establishment and Puritan divine, Provost of King's College, Cambridge, and leader of the Cambridge Platonists.-Life:...

1645
James Fleetwood
James Fleetwood
James Fleetwood was an English clergyman and Bishop of Worcester.-Life:...

1660
Thomas Page 1676
John Coplestone 1681
Charles Roderick 1689
John Adams
John Adams (provost)
John Adams D.D. was an English churchman and provost of King's College, Cambridge.-Life:John Adams was born in London, and educated at Eton College and Cambridge, where he was admitted to King's College in 1678, took the degree of B.A. in 1682, and M.A. in 1686...

1712
Andrew Snape 1720
William George 1743
John Sumner 1756
William Cooke 1772
Humphrey Sumner 1797
George Thackeray 1814
Richard Okes 1850
Augustus Austen Leigh 1889
Montague Rhodes James
M. R. James
Montague Rhodes James, OM, MA, , who used the publication name M. R. James, was an English mediaeval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge and of Eton College . He is best remembered for his ghost stories, which are regarded as among the best in the genre...

1905
Walter Durnford 1918
Alan England Brooke 1926
John Tresidder Sheppard
John Tresidder Sheppard
Sir John Tresidder Sheppard was an eminent classicist and the first non-Etonian to become the Provost of King's College, Cambridge.-Early life:John Sheppard was educated at Dulwich College. He went up to King's College, Cambridge where he studied Classics....

1933
Stephen Glanville
Stephen Glanville
Stephen Ranulph Kingdon Glanville, MBE was an English historian and egyptologist.-Biography:S R K Glanville was born in Westminster, London, the eldest son of Stephen James Glanville and Nannie Elizabeth . He was first cousin to Frank Kingdon-Ward the explorer and botanist and also related to...

1954
Noel Annan 1956
Edmund Leach
Edmund Leach
Sir Edmund Ronald Leach was a British social anthropologist of whom it has been said:"It is no exaggeration to say that in sheer versatility, originality, and range of writing he was and still is difficult to match among the anthropologists of the English speaking world".-Personal and academic...

1966
Bernard Williams
Bernard Williams
Sir Bernard Arthur Owen Williams was an English moral philosopher, described by The Times as the most brilliant and most important British moral philosopher of his time. His publications include Problems of the Self , Moral Luck , Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy , and Truth and Truthfulness...

1979
Patrick Bateson
Patrick Bateson
Sir Patrick Bateson, FRS is an English biologist and science writer. Bateson is emeritus professor of ethology at Cambridge University and president of the Zoological Society of London since 2004....

1988
Judith Mayhew-Jonas
Judith Mayhew
Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas, DBE is a New Zealand-born British lawyer and academic.Born and educated in New Zealand, Judith Mayhew graduated LLM from the University of Otago, where she lectured before moving to the UK as a lecturer in law at King's College London where she set up and became Director...

2003
Ross Harrison 2006
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