List of rectors of Exeter College, Oxford

The following is a list of rectors of Exeter College, Oxford.

Rectors of Exeter College

1318-1566

• John Parys (1318 – 1319)
• Stephen de Pippecote] (1322 – 1325)
• John de Sevenaysshe (1325 – 1326)
• John de Kelly (1326 – 1327)
• Richard de Pyn (1327 – 1330)
• Henry de Tiverton (1333 – 1344)
• William Dobbe (1334 – 1335)
• William de Polmorva (1336 – 1337)
• John de Blankeswille (1344)
• Robert de Trethewy (1354 – June 1357)
• John Halle (1357 – Spring 1359)
• John Wiseburg (May — October 1359)
• Robert de Clyste (1359 – 1365)
• Robert Blakedon (1365 – 1366)
• John Otery (1367)
• Thomas de Kelly (1368 – 1369)
• William Franke (1370 – 1371)
• John Dagenet (1371 – 1372)
• Robert de Lydeford (1373 – 1374)
• Martin Lydeford (1374)
• John More (1374 – 1375)
• Thomas Worth (1375 – 1377)
• Thomas White (1377 – 1378)
• Richard Browne (1378 – 1379)
• Lawrence Stevine (1379 – March 1380)
• William Talkarn or Talcaryn (March — October 1380)
• William Slade (1380 – 1384)
• Thomas Dyre (1385 – 1389)
• Thomas Hendyman or Hyndeman (October 16, 1389 – April 2, 1390)
• Richard Mark or Marks (April 2, 1390 – 1391)
• Helias Stoke (October 14, 1391 – 1393)
• Robert Marschel (October 11, 1393 – 1394)
• John Gynne (1395 – 1399)
• John Jakys (October 11, 1399 – 1400)
• Richard Penwyne (1400 – 1401)
• Geoffrey Prentys (1401 – 1402)
• John Cowling (1402 – 1404)
• John Schute (1404 – 1405)
• Thomas Noreys (1405 – 1406)
• William Penbegyll (1406 – 1407)
• William Fylham (1407 – 1408)
• William Grene (1409 – 1411)
• Walter Trengoff (1411 – 1413)
• Benedict Brente (1413 – 1414)
• William Fylham (1415)
• John Alwarde (1416 – 1417)
• Henry Whitehead (1417 – 1418)
• John Alwarde (1418 – 1419)
• Ralph Morewyll (1419 – 1422)
• Edmund Fitchet (1422 – 1424)
• John Colyforde (1425)
• William Palmer (1425 – 1432)
• John Rowe (1433 – 1440)
• John Rygge (1440 – 1441)
• John Lyndon (1441 – 1442)
• John Westlake (1442 – 1443)
• John Evelyn (1443 – 1447)
• Richard French (1449 – 1453)
• Walter Windsor (1453 – 1457)
• William Mogys or Mogas (1457 – 1459)
• William Thomas (1459 – 1460)
• William Baron (1460 – 1464)
• John Phylypp (1464 – 1470)
• William Major (1471 – 1474)
• Richard Bradleghe (1475 – March 14, 1478)
• William Mylplaysh (March 14 – July 14, 1478)
• John Orelle or Oryal (July 4, 1478 – 1479)
• William Meryfeld (1479 – 1480)
• James Babbe (1482 – 1484)
• John Smythe (1485 – 1487)
• Thomas Ruer (1487 – 1488)
• Richard Panter (1488 – December 20, 1494)
• Richard Roberd or Roberts or Robyns (Lent - October 1495)
• John Atwell (1495 – 1499)
• Thomas Michell (1499 – 1501)
• John Rugge or Rigge (1501 – 1502)
• Gerendus Raffe (1503 – 1504)
• William Bery Bury (1506 – 1508)
• Symon Todde (1512 – Summer 1514)
• John Rugge or Rigge (1515 – 1516)
• Thomas Vyvyan (March 27, 1518 – October 8, 1519)
• William Smythe (1519 – 1521)
• Philip Bale (December 14, 1521 – October 6, 1526)
• Edmund Fletcher (1526 – 1529)
• John Bere (1529 – 1531)
• John Pekyns (1531 – 1534)
• John Bery or Bury (1534 – 1536)
• John Dotyn (1537 – 1539)
• John French (October 25, 1539 – 1542)
• Henry Laurence (October 17, 1542 – October 9, 1543)
• Augustine Crosse (October 17, 1543 – 1546)
• William More (October 17, 1546 – 1553)
• William Corindon or Corydon or Corndon (1553 – 1555)
• Stephen Marks (October 17, 1555 – 1556)
• Philip Randell (October 17, 1556 – October 17, 1557)
• Robert Newton (October 17, 1557 – October 17, 1559)
• John Neale (October 18, 1560 – 1566)

1566-

• John Neale (Whitsuntide 1566 – deprived October 12, 1570
• Robert Newton (October 31, 1570 – resigned October 4, 1578 (see above)
• Thomas Glasier (October 21, 1578 – d. March 9, 1592
• Thomas Holland (April 24, 1592 – d. March 17, 1612
• John Prideaux (April 4, 1612 – resigned August 3, 1642]]
• George Hakewill (August 23, 1642 – d. April 2, 1649
• John Conant (June 7, 1649 – deprived September 1, 1662
• Joseph Maynard (September 18, 1662 – resigned April 30, 1666
• Arthur Bury (May 27, 1666 – deprived July 26, 1690
• William Paynter (August 15, 1690 –d. February 18, 1716
• Mathew Hole (March 8, 1716 – d. July 19, 1730
• John Conybeare (August 6, 1730 – resigned January 29, 1733
• Joseph Atwell (February 17, 1733 – resigned March 3, 1737
• James Edgcumbe (April 11, 1737 – d. May 16, 1750
• Francis Webber (June 5, 1750 – d. September 29, 1771
• Thomas Bray (October 22, 1771 – d. March 28, 1785
• Thomas Stinton (April 15, 1785 – d. July 6, 1787
• Henry Richards (July 23, 1797 – d. December 19, 1807
• John Cole (January 7, 1808 – d. October 13, 1819
• John Collier Jones (November 6, 1819 – d. August 7, 1838
• Joseph Loscombe Richards (September 1, 1838 – d. February 27, 1854
• John Prideaux Lightfoot (March 18, 1854 – d. March 23, 1887
• William Walrond Jackson (April 15, 1887 – resigned March 25, 1913
• Lewis Richard Farnell (April 15, 1913 – resigned September 19, 1928
• Robert Ranulph Marett (October 10, 1928 – d. February 18, 1943
• Eric Arthur Barber (September 26, 1943 –

• Sir Kenneth Clinton Wheare (1956 - resigned 1972)
• W Greig Barr (1972 - d. April 23, 2008)
• Frances Cairncross (October 2004)

From: 'Exeter College', A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3: The University of Oxford (1954), pp. 107-118. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63875. Date accessed: 25 February 2008.

Reference

• 'Exeter College', A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3: The University of Oxford (1954), pp. 107-118. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63875. Date accessed: 25 February 2008.