Lord High Almoners
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- 1509–unknown: Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, Archbishop of York (etc.)
- 1559–1561: William Bill, Master of Trinity
- 1561–1572: Edmund Gheast, Bishop of Salisbury.
- 1576–unknown: John Piers, Bishop of Salisbury, later Archbishop of York.
- 1595–unknown: Anthony Watson, Bishop of Chichester
- 1605–unknown: Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Chichester, then of Ely
- 1619–unknown: George Montaigne (or Mountain), Bishop of London (etc.)
- 1660–1662: Brian Duppa, Bishop of Winchester
- 1662–1675: Humphrey Henchman, Bishop of Salisbury, then of London
- 1675–1684: John Dolben, Bishop of Rochester
- 1684–1687: Francis Turner, Bishop of Ely
- 1687: John Leyburn, Vicar Apostolic of England
- 1687–1689: The Hon Cardinal Philip Howard
- 1689–1703: William Lloyd, Bishop of St Asaph, then of Lichfield and Coventry, then of Worcester
- 1703–1714: John Sharp, Archbishop of York
- 1714–1715: George Smalridge, Bishop of Bristol
- 1715–1716: William Wake, Bishop of Lincoln
- 1716–1718: William Nicolson, Bishop of Carlisle
- 1718–1723: Richard Willis, Bishop of Gloucester
- 1723–1743: Lancelot Blackburne, Archbishop of York
- 1743–1748: Thomas Sherlock, Bishop of Salisbury
- 1748–1757: Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of York
- 1757–1761: John Gilbert, Archbishop of York
- 1761–1777: The Hon Robert Hay Drummond, Archbishop of York
- 1777–1808: William Markham, Archbishop of York
- 1808–1847: The Hon Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt, Archbishop of York
- 1847-1870: Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford, then of Winchester
- 1870-1882: The Hon Gerald Wellesley, Dean of Windsor
- 1882–1906: The Lord Alwyne Compton, Bishop of Ely
- 1906-1933: Joseph Armitage Robinson, Dean of Westminster, then of Wells
- 1933–1945: Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1946–1953: Edward Woods, Bishop of Lichfield
- 1953–1970: Edward Jones, Bishop of St Albans
- 1970–1988: David Say, Bishop of Rochester
- 1988–1997: John Taylor, Bishop of St Albans
- 1997–present: Nigel McCulloch, Bishop of Manchester
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