The head of University College, Oxford is known as the Master.
University College was founded by William of Durham with a legacy in 1249. The names of early Masters are not known. The earliest surviving College Register starts from 1509 and dates before that are uncertain.
- Roger de Aswardby (fl. 1353–62)
- William Kexby (fl. 1376–79)
- Thomas Foston (1393–96)
- Thomas Duffield (1396–98)
- Edmund Lacy (1398–c.1401)
- John Appleton (c.1401–08)
- John Castell (c.1408–20)
- Robert Burton (1420–23/4)
- Richard Witton (1423/4–28)
- Thomas Benwell (1428–41)
- John Martyn (1441–73)
- William Gregford (1473–87/8)
- John Roxborough (1487/8–1509)
- Ralph Hamsterley (1509–18)
- Leonard Hutchinson (1518–46)
- John Crayford (1546–47)
- Richard Salveyn (1547–51)
- George Ellison (1551–57)
- Anthony Salveyn (1557–58)
- James Dugdale (1558–61)
- Thomas Caius (1561–72)
- William James (1572–84)
- Anthony Gate (1584–97)
- George Abbot (1597–1610)
- John Bancroft (1610–32)
- Thomas Walker (1632–48)
- Joshua Hoyle (1648–54)
- Francis Johnson (1655–60)
- Thomas Walker (1660–65)
- Richard Clayton (1665–76)
- Obadiah Walker (1676–89)
- Edward Farrer (1689–91)
- Thomas Bennet (1691–92)
- Arthur Charlett (1692–1722)
- (William Dennison, 1722–29)
- Thomas Cockman (1722/29–45)
- John Browne (1745–64)
- Nathan Wetherell (1764–1807)
- James Griffith (1808–21)
- George Rowley (1821–36)
- Frederick Charles Plumptre (1836–70)
- George Granville Bradley (1870–81)
- James Franck Bright (1881–1906)
- Reginald Walter Macan (1906–23)
- Michael Ernest Sadler (1923–34)
- Arthur Blackburne Poynton (1935–37)
- William Henry Beveridge (1937–45)
- John Herbert Severn Wild (1945–51)
- Arthur Lehman Goodhart (1951–63)
- John Redcliffe-Maud (1963–76)
- Arnold Goodman (1976–86)
- Kingman Brewster (1986–88)
- John Albery (1989–97)
- Robin Butler (1998–2008)
- Ivor Crewe (2008–)
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The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished;
And what is love but a rose that fades?”
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—Richard Harter Fogle, U.S. critic, educator. The Imagery of Keats and Shelley, ch. 1, University of North Carolina Press (1949)
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—Bernard Lewis, U.S. Middle Eastern specialist. Islam and the West, ch. 8, Oxford University Press (1993)