Dean of St Paul's

St Paul's Cathedral, London

The Dean of St Paul's is the head of the Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral in London in the Church of England. The Dean of St Paul's is also (ex officio) Dean of the Order of the British Empire.

The current Dean is the Very Revd David Ison, who was installed on 25 May 2012.

List of deans

High Medieval

• 1090–1107 Wulman
• 1107–1111 Ranulf Flambard (disputed)
• 1111–1138 William de Mareni
• 1138–1157 Ralph de Langford
• 1158–1180 Hugh de Mareni
• 1180–1199 Ralph de Diceto
• 1200–1216 Alard de Burnham
• 1216–1218 Gervase de Howbridge
• 1218–1227 Robert de Watford
• 1228–1231 Martin de Pattishall
• 1231–1241 Geoffrey de Lucy
• 1241–1243 William of Sainte-Mère-Eglise
• 1243–1253 Henry de Cornhill
• 1253–1257 Walter de Saleron
• 1257–1260 Robert de Barton
• 1260–1261 Peter de Newport
• January 1262–July 1262 Richard Talbot
• July 1262–1263 John de Ebulo
• 1263–1267 Geoffrey de Fering
• 1268–1273 John Chishull
• 1273–1276 Hervey de Boreham
• 1276–1283 Thomas Ingoldsthorpe
• 1283–1285 Roger de La Legh
• 1285–1294 William de Montfort
• 1294–1306 Ralph Baldock

Late Medieval

• 1306–1313 Arnald Frangerius de Cantilupo
• 1314–1316 John Sandale
• 1316–1317 Richard Newport
• 1317 Roger de Northburgh
• 1317–1322 Vitalis de Testa
• 1322–1335 John de Everdon

• 1335–1354 Gilbert de Bruera
• 1354–1361 Richard de Kilvington
• 1361–1362 Walter de Alderbury
• 1362–1364 Thomas Trilleck
• 1364–1389 John de Appleby
• 1389–1400 Thomas de Eure
• 1400–1405 Thomas Stowe
• 1406–1421 Thomas More
• 1422–1441 Reginald Kentwood
• 1441–1456 Thomas Lisieux
• 1456–1457 Laurence Booth
• 1457–1468 William Say
• 1468–1471 Roger Radclyffe
• 1471–1478 Thomas Wynterbourne
• 1479–1499 William Worsley

Early modern

• 1499–1505 Robert Sherborne
• 1505–1519 John Colet
• 1519–1536 Richard Pace
• 1536–1540 Richard Sampson
• 1540–1545 John Incent
• 1545–1554 William May
• 1554–1556 John Feckenham
• 1556–1559 Henry Cole
• 1559–1560 William May (again)
• 1560–1602 Alexander Nowell
• 1602–1614 John Overall
• 1614–1621 Valentine Cary
• 1621–1631 John Donne
• 1631–1642 Thomas Winniffe
• 1642–1651 Richard Steward (not installed)
• 1651–1660 Vacancy (English Interregnum)
• 1660–1661 Matthew Nicholas
• 1661–1664 John Barwick

• 1664–1678 William Sancroft
• 1678–1689 Edward Stillingfleet
• 1689–1691 John Tillotson
• 1691–1707 William Sherlock
• 1707–1726 Henry Godolphin
• 1726–1740 Francis Hare
• 1740–1750 Joseph Butler
• 1750–1758 Thomas Secker
• 1758–1766 John Hume
• 1766–1768 Frederick Cornwallis
• 1768–1782 Thomas Newton
• 1782–1787 Thomas Thurlow

Late modern

• 1787–1820 George Pretyman Tomline

(Pretyman until 1803)

• 1820–1826 William Van Mildert
• 1826–1827 Charles Sumner
• 1827–1849 Edward Copleston
• 1849–1868 Henry Milman
• 1868–1871 Henry Mansel
• 1871–1890 Richard Church
• 1891–1911 Robert Gregory
• 1911–1934 William Inge
• 1934–1967 Walter Matthews
• 1967–1978 Martin Sullivan
• 1978–1988 Alan Webster
• 1988–1996 Thomas Evans
• 1996–2006 John Moses
• 2007–2011 Graeme Knowles (resigned)
• 2011–2012 Michael Colclough (Acting)
• 25 May 2012–present David Ison

Sources

• Deans of St Paul's. Greenway, D. E. (1968). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300. Volume 1: St. Paul's, London. British History Online. pp. 4–8.
• Deans of St Paul's. Horn, J. M. (1963). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300–1541. Volume 5: St Paul's, London. British History Online. pp. 4–7.
• Deans of St Paul's. Horn, J. M. (1969). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857. Volume 1: St. Paul's, London. British History Online. pp. 5–7.
• WR Matthews: [1] Date accessed: 15 February 2006.
• St Paul's Cathedral press release 23 Jan 2006: [2] Date accessed: 15 February 2006.