| Year |
Chancellor |
| 1224 |
Robert Grosseteste (Master of the School of Oxford since 1208) |
| 1231 |
Ralph Cole (surname queried) |
| 1231 |
Ralph de Maidstone[4] |
| 1231 |
Richard Batchden |
| 1233 |
Ralph Cole |
| 1238 |
Simon de Bovill |
| 1239 |
John de Rygater |
| 1240 |
Richard of Chichester |
| 1240 |
Ralph de Heyham |
| 1244 |
Simon de Bovill |
| 1246 |
Gilbert de Biham |
| 1252 |
Ralph de Sempringham |
| 1255 |
William de Lodelawe |
| 1256 |
Richard de S. Agatha |
| 1262 |
Thomas de Cantilupe |
| 1264 |
Henry de Cicestre ? |
| 1267 |
Nicholas de Ewelme |
| 1269 |
Thomas Bek |
| 1273 |
William de Bosco |
| 1276 |
Eustace de Normanville |
| 1280 |
John de Pontissara / John of Pontoise (Bishop of Winchester) |
| 1280 |
Henry de Stanton |
| 1282 |
William de Montfort |
| 1283 |
Roger de Rowell or Rodwell or Rodewell |
| 1284 |
William Pikerell |
| 1285 |
Hervey de Saham |
| 1288 |
Robert Winchelsey |
| 1289 |
William de Kingescote |
| 1290 |
John de Ludlow |
| 1290 |
John of Monmouth (afterwards Bishop of Llandaff) |
| 1291 |
Simon of Ghent (afterwards Bishop of Salisbury) |
| 1292 |
Henry Swayne ? |
| 1293 |
Roger de Martival (afterwards Bishop of Salisbury) |
| 1294 |
Peter de Medburn |
| 1294 |
Roger de Weseham |
| 1297 |
Richard de Clyve |
| 1300 |
James de Cobeham |
| 1302 |
Walter de Wetheringsete |
| 1304 |
Simon de Faversham |
| 1306 |
Walter Burdun |
| 1308 |
William de Bosco |
| 1309 |
Henry de Maunsfeld |
| 1311 |
Walter Giffard |
| 1311 |
Henry de Maunsfeld |
| 1313 |
Henry Harclay |
| 1316 |
Richard de Nottingham ? |
| 1317 |
John Lutterell (resigned 1322) |
| 1322 |
Henry Gower (afterwards Bishop of St David's) |
| 1324 |
William de Alburwyke |
| 1326 |
Thomas Hotham |
| 1328 |
Ralph of Shrewsbury |
| 1329 |
Roger de Streton |
| 1330 |
Nigel de Wavere |
| 1332 |
Ralph Radyn |
| 1334 |
Hugh de Willoughby |
| 1335 |
Robert de Stratford (later Bishop of Chichester, Lord High Chancellor of England) |
| 1338 |
Robert Paynink ? |
| 1338 |
John Leech |
| 1339 |
William de Skelton |
| 1341 |
Walter de Scauren |
| 1341 |
William de Bergeveney |
| 1345 |
John de Northwode |
| 1349 |
William de Hawkesworth |
| 1350 |
William de Palmorna (1350–1351) |
| 1354 |
Humphrey de Cherlton |
| 1357 |
Lewis Charlton ? |
| 1357 |
John de Hotham |
| 1358 |
John Renham or Reigham |
| 1359 |
John de Hotham |
| 1360 |
Richard Fitz Ralph ? |
| 1360 |
Nicholas de Aston |
| 1363 |
John de Renham |
| 1363 |
John de Echingham or Hethingham |
| 1366 |
Adam de Toneworth |
| 1367 |
William Courtney (afterwards Bishop of Hereford, London, Canterbury) |
| 1369 |
Adam de Toneworth |
| 1371 |
William de Heytisbury |
| 1372 |
William de Remmyngton |
| 1373 |
William de Wylton |
| 1376 |
John Turke |
| 1377 |
Adam de Toneworth |
| 1379 |
Robert Aylesham |
| 1379 |
William Berton |
| 1381 |
Robert Rygge or Rugge |
| 1382 |
William Berton |
| 1382 |
Robert Rygge |
| 1382 |
Nicholas Hereford |
| 1382 |
William Rugge ? |
| 1383 |
Robert Rygge |
| 1388 |
Thomas Brightwell |
| 1390 |
Thomas Cranley (afterwards Archbishop of Dublin) |
| 1391 |
Robert Rygge |
| 1392 |
Ralph Redruth |
| 1393 |
Thomas Prestbury |
| 1394 |
Robert Arlyngton |
| 1395 |
Thomas Hyndeman |
| 1397 |
Philip Repyngdon (afterwards Bishop of Lincoln) |
| 1397 |
Henry Beaufort (afterwards Bishop of Lincoln and Winchester) |
| 1399 |
Thomas Hyndeman |
| 1400 |
Philip Repyngdon |
| 1403 |
Robert Alum or Hallam (afterwards Bishop of Salisbury) |
| 1407 |
Richard Courtenay |
| 1407 |
Richard Ullerston |
| 1408 |
William Clynt |
| 1409 |
Thomas Prestbury |
| 1410 |
William Sulburge |
| 1411 |
Richard Courtenay |
| 1412 |
William Sulburge |
| 1412 |
Richard Courtenay |
| 1413 |
William Sulburge |
| 1413 |
William Barrow (afterwards Bishop of Bangor and of Carlisle)[5] |
| 1414 |
Richard Snetisham |
| 1415 |
William Barrow |
| 1416 |
Thomas Clare |
| 1416 |
William Barrow |
| 1417 |
Thomas Clare |
| 1417 |
Walter Treugof |
| 1419 |
Robert Colman |
| 1419 |
Walter Treugof |
| 1420 |
Thomas Rodborne |
| 1420 |
Walter Treugof |
| 1421 |
John Castell |
| 1426 |
Thomas Chase (afterwards Chancellor of Ireland) |
| 1431 |
Gilbert Kymer |
| 1433 |
Thomas Bourchier (Archbishop of Canterbury) |
| 1437 |
John Carpenter |
| 1438 |
Richard Praty or Pratty ? |
| 1439 |
John Norton |
| 1440 |
Richard Roderham |
| 1440 |
William Grey (afterwards Bishop of Ely) |
| 1442 |
Thomas Gascoigne |
| 1442 |
Henry Sever |
| 1443 |
Thomas Gascoigne |
| 1445 |
Robert Thwaits |
| 1446 |
Gilbert Kymer |
| 1453 |
George Neville (afterwards Bishop of Exeter and York; Chancellor of England) |
| 1457 |
Thomas Chaundeler |
| 1461 |
George Neville |
| 1472 |
Thomas Chaundeler |
| 1479 |
Lionel Woodville (afterwards Bishop of Salisbury) |
| 1483 |
William Dudley |
| 1483 |
John Russell |
| 1494 |
John Morton |
| 1500 |
William Smyth |
| 1502 |
Richard Mayew (Bishop of Hereford) |
| 1506 |
William Warham |
| 1532 |
John Longland (Bishop of Lincoln) |
| 1547 |
Richard Cox |
| 1552 |
John Mason |
| 1556 |
Cardinal Reginald Pole (Archbishop of Canterbury) |
| 1558 |
Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel |
| 1559 |
John Mason |
| 1564 |
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester |
| 1585 |
Sir Thomas Bromley, deputising for Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester) |
| 1588 |
Sir Christopher Hatton |
| 1591 |
Thomas Sackville, 1st Baron Buckhurst (Earl of Dorset from 1604) |
| 1608 |
Richard Bancroft |
| 1610 |
Thomas Egerton, 1st Baron Ellesmere (Viscount Brackley from 1616) |
| 1616 |
William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke |
| 1630 |
William Laud |
| 1641 |
Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke |
| 1643 |
William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset |
| 1648 |
Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke (to his death on 23 January 1649) |
| 1649 |
Vacant |
| 1650 |
Oliver Cromwell |
| 1657 |
Richard Cromwell |
| 1660 |
William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset |
| 1660 |
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon |
| 1667 |
Gilbert Sheldon |
| 1669 |
James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde |
| 1688 |
James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde |
| 1715 |
Charles Butler, 1st Earl of Arran |
| 1759 |
John Fane, 7th Earl of Westmorland |
| 1762 |
George Lee, 3rd Earl of Lichfield |
| 1772 |
Frederick North, Lord North (Earl of Guilford from 1790) |
| 1792 |
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland |
| 1809 |
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville |
| 1834 |
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington |
| 1852 |
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby |
| 1869 |
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury |
| 1903 |
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen[6][7] |
| 1907 |
George Curzon, 1st Baron Curzon of Kedleston (Earl Curzon of Kedleston from 1911; Marquess Curzon of Kedleston from 1921) |
| 1925 |
George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave[8][9] - see University of Oxford Chancellor election, 1925 |
| 1928 |
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon |
| 1933 |
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Baron Irwin (Viscount Halifax from 1934; Earl of Halifax from 1944), (1933–1959) |
| 1960 |
Harold Macmillan (Earl of Stockton from 1984), (1960–1986) - see University of Oxford Chancellor election, 1960 |
| 1987 |
Roy Jenkins[10] (Baron Jenkins of Hillhead from 1987) (1987–2003) - see University of Oxford Chancellor election, 1987 |
| 2003 |
Chris Patten (Baron Patten of Barnes from 2005) (2003-) - see University of Oxford Chancellor election, 2003 |