List of Oriel College People - Provosts

Provosts

  • 1326 to 1332: Adam de Brome - Almoner to Edward II and founder of college.
  • 1332 to 1348: William de Leverton
  • 1348 to 1349: William de Hawkesworth - Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford
  • 1349 to 1373: William de Daventre
  • 1373 to 1385: John de Colyntre
  • 1385 to 1394: John de Middleton
  • 1394 to 1402: John de Maldon
  • 1402 to 1414: John Possell
  • 1414 to 1415: John Rote
  • 1415 to 1417: William Corffe
  • 1417 to 1421: Thomas Leyntwardyn
  • 1421 to 1422: Henry Kayle
  • 1424 to 1427: Nicholas Herry
  • 1428 to 1435: John Carpenter
  • 1435 to 1446: Walter Lyhert
  • 1446 to 1449: John Hals
  • 1449 to 1476: Henry Sampson
  • 1476 to 1479: Thomas Hawkyns
  • 1479 to 1492: John Taylor
  • 1493 to 1507: Thomas Cornysh
  • 1507 to 1516: Edmund Wylsford
  • 1516 to 1530: James More
  • 1530 to 1538: Thomas Ware
  • 1538 to 1540: Henry Mynne
  • 1540 to 1550: William Haynes
  • 1550 to 1565: John Smyth
  • 1565 to 1566: Roger Marbeck - Chief physician to Elizabeth I.
  • 1566 to 1574: John Belly
  • 1574 to 1618: Antony Blencowe
  • 1618 to 1621: William Lewis
  • 1621 to 1644: John Tolson
  • 1644 to 1653: John Saunders
  • 1653 to 1691: Robert Say
  • 1691 to 1708: George Royse
  • 1709 to 1727: George Carter
  • 1727 to 1757: Walter Hodges
  • 1757 to 1768: Chardin Musgrave
  • 1768 to 1781: John Clarke
  • 1781 to 1814: John Eveleigh
  • 1814 to 1828: Edward Copleston - Oxford Professor of Poetry 1802 to 1812, Bishop of Llandaff and Dean of St Paul's 1828 to 1849.
  • 1828 to 1882: Edward Hawkins
  • 1882 to 1905: David Binning Monro - Scottish Homeric scholar.
  • 1905 to 1914: Charles Lancelot Shadwell
  • 1914 to 1930: Lancelot Ridley Phelps
  • 1930 to 1947: Sir David Ross - Scottish philosopher, known for work in ethics.
  • 1947 to 1957: Sir George Clark - British historian.
  • 1957 to 1980: Kenneth Turpin - Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1966 to 1969.
  • 1980 to 1981: Baron Swann - molecular and cell biologist, Chairman of the BBC from 1973 to 1980, Principal of Edinburgh University 1973 to 1980, and Chancellor of the University of York 1979 to 1990.
  • 1982 to 1990: Sir Zelman Cowen - former Governor-General of Australia
  • 1990 to 2003: Ernest Nicholson - former Oriel Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture
  • 2003 (current): Sir Derek Morris - former Chairman of the Competition Commission

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