Dean of Windsor

St George's Chapel, Windsor

The Dean of Windsor is the spiritual head of the Canons of St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, England. The Dean chairs meetings of the Chapter of Canons as primus inter pares.

List of deans

Late medieval

• 1348 William Mugge
• 1380 Walter Almaly
• 1403 Thomas Butler
• 1412 Richard Kingston
• 1417 John Arundel
• 1452 Thomas Manning
• 1462 John Faux
• 1470 William Morland
• 1473 William Dudley
• 1476 Peter Courtenay
• 1478 Richard Beauchamp
• 1481 Thomas Danett
• 1483 William Bealey
• 1484 John Morgan
• 1495 Christopher Urswick

Early modern

• 1505 Christopher Bainbridge
• 1507 Thomas Hobbes
• 1510 Nicholas West
• 1515 John Vesey
• 1519 John Clerk

• 1523 Richard Sampson
• 1536 William Franklyn
• 1553 Owen Oglethorpe
• 1556 Hugh Weston
• 1557 John Boxall (deprived)
• 1559 George Carew
• 1572 William Day
• 1595 Robert Bennet
• 1602 Giles Thomson
• 1612 Anthony Maxey
• 1618 Marco Antonio de Dominis
• 1622 Henry Beaumont
• 1628 Matthew Wren
• 1635 Christopher Wren
• 1658 Edward Hyde
• 1660 Bruno Ryves
• 1677 John Durell
• 1683 Francis Turner
• 1684 Gregory Hascard
• 1708 Thomas Manningham
• 1709 John Robinson
• 1713 The Lord Willoughby de Broke
• 1729 Peniston Booth

• 1765 The Hon Frederick Keppel
• 1778 The Hon John Harley
• 1788 John Douglas
• 1791 The Hon James Cornwallis
• 1794 Charles Manners-Sutton

Late modern

• 1805-1816 Edward Legge
• 1816-1846 Henry Hobart
• 1846-1854 George Neville-Grenville
• 1854-1882 Gerald Wellesley
• 1882-1884 George Connor
• 1884-1891 Randall Davidson
• 1891-1917 Philip Eliot
• 1917–1945 Albert Baillie
• 1945–1962 Eric Hamilton
• 1962–1971 Robin Woods
• 1971–1976 Launcelot Fleming
• 1976–1989 Michael Mann
• 1989–1997 Patrick Mitchell
• 1998–present David Conner

See also

• Dean and Canons of Windsor

Sources

• Fasti Wyndesorienses: The deans and canons of Windsor. Historical monographs relating to St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle Volume 8. Sidney Leslie Ollard (1950)
• British History Online – A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 2 – Deans of Windsor