Dean of Windsor explained

The Dean of Windsor is the spiritual head of the canons of St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, England. The dean chairs meetings of the Chapter of Canons as primus inter pares. The post of Dean of Wolverhampton was assimilated to the deanery of Windsor, around 1480, until 1846.^[1]

List of deans

Late medieval

1348 John de la Chambre
1349 William Mugge
1381 Walter Almaly
1389 Thomas Butiller
1402 Richard Kingston
1419 John Arundel
1454 Thomas Manning
1461 John Faulkes (Vaux)
1471 William Morland
1471 John Davyson
1473 William Dudley
1476 Peter Courtenay
1478 Richard Beauchamp
1481 Thomas Danett
1483 William Beverley
1485 John Davyson
1485 John Morgan
1496 Christopher Urswick

Early modern

Late modern

1805–1816 Edward Legge
1816–1846 Henry Hobart
1846–1854 George Neville-Grenville
1854–1882 Gerald Wellesley
1882–1884 George Connor
1884–1891 Randall Davidson
1891–1917 Philip Eliot
1917–1944 Albert Baillie
1944–1962 Eric Hamilton
1962–1971 Robin Woods
1971–1976 Launcelot Fleming
1976–1989 Michael Mann
1989–1997 Patrick Mitchell
1998–2023 David Conner
2023–present Christopher Cocksworth^[2]

See also

Dean and Canons of Windsor

Sources

Fasti Wyndesorienses: The deans and canons of Windsor. Historical monographs relating to St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle Volume 8. Sidney Leslie Ollard (1950)
British History Online – A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 2 – Deans of Windsor

Notes and References

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=37876 Victoria County History – Staffordshire; Vol. 3, no. 44:
Web site: Diocese of Coventry . Christopher Cocksworth to be appointed the Dean of Windsor . 20 June 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230620140501/https://coventry.anglican.org/news/the-right-reverend-dr-christopher-cocksworth-to-be-appointed-the-dean-of-windsor.php . 20 June 2023 . 20 June 2023 .