List of presidents of Queens' College, Cambridge explained

This is a list of presidents of Queens' College, Cambridge. While the head of most colleges are called masters, the head of Queens' College, Cambridge, has been called the president since 1448.^[1] Below is the list of presidents that have served the college:

Name	Portrait	Dates	Notes
Andrew Dokett		1448–1484	English churchman and academic
Thomas Wilkynson		1484–1505	Vicar, Canon of Ripon
John Cardinal Fisher		1505–1508	Catholic Bishop of Rochester; executed by Henry VIII for refusing to accept him as head of the Church of England in 1535, canonised in 1935. Namesake of the Fisher Building.
Robert Bekensaw		1508–1519	English churchman and academic
John Jenyn		1519–1525	Cleric
Thomas Forman		1525–1527	Rector of All Hallows, London. Early Reformer.
William Frankleyn		1527–1529	English churchman, dean of Windsor
Simon Heynes		1529–1537	Theologian. Early reformer.
William May		1537–1553, 1559–1560	Theologian and dean of St Paul's Cathedral; his report saved the Cambridge colleges from dissolution under Henry VIII
William Glyn		1553–1557	Also Bishop of Bangor
Thomas Pecocke		1557–1559	Theologian
John Stokes		1560–1568	Also Archdeacon of York
William Chaderton		1568–1579	Later Bishop of Chester and Bishop of Lincoln
Humphrey Tyndall		1579–1614	Theologian, Dean of Ely and Archdeacon of Stafford
John Davenant		1614–1622	Later Bishop of Salisbury
John Mansell		1622–1631	Churchman, theologian, philosopher
Edward Martin		1631–1644, 1660–1662	Sent the college silver to King Charles I; imprisoned in the Tower of London by Oliver Cromwell; restored to presidency under Charles II
Herbert Palmer		1644–1647	Puritan and member of the Westminster Assembly; installed as President by Cromwell
Thomas Horton		1647–1660	Theologian; removed by the restoration of the monarchy
Anthony Sparrow		1662–1667	Later Bishop of Exeter and Bishop of Norwich
William Wells		1667–1675	Archdeacon of Colchester
Henry James		1675–1717	Theologian, Regius Professor of Divinity.
John Davies		1717–1732	Clergyman and classicist.
William Sedgwick		1732–1760	Clergyman and academic.
Robert Plumptre		1760–1788	Clergyman and academic.
Isaac Milner		1788–1820	Clergyman, mathematician, inventor, abolitionist. Lucasian Professor of Mathematics and Dean of Carlisle.
Henry Godfrey		1820–1832	Clergyman and academic.
Joshua King		1832–1857	Mathematician, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics.
George Phillips		1857–1892	Clergyman, mathematician, scholar of Semitic languages.
William Magan Campion		1892–1896	Clergyman and mathematician.
Herbert Edward Ryle		1896–1901	Theologian, Hulsean Professor of Divinity. Later Bishop of Exeter, Bishop of Winchester and Dean of Westminster
Frederic Chase		1901–1906	Theologian, Norrisian Professor of Divinity. Later Bishop of Ely.
Thomas Cecil Fitzpatrick		1906–1931	Clergyman and physicist. Namesake of Fitzpatrick Hall in Cripps Court.
John Archibald Venn		1931–1958	Economist and government advisor. Son of the logician John Venn.
Arthur Armitage		1958–1970	Barrister and government advisor. Namesake of the Armitage Room above Fitzpatrick Hall.
Sir Derek Bowett		1970–1982	International lawyer, Whewell Professor of International Law.
Lord Oxburgh		1982–1988	Geologist and geophysicist
Sir John Polkinghorne		1988–1996	KBE FRS; physicist and theologian; extensive writer on science-faith relations; Templeton Prize 2002; member of General Synod
Lord Eatwell		1997–2020	Economist, previously chief economic adviser to Neil Kinnock and chairman of the British Library; Opposition Spokesman for the Treasury in the House of Lords.
Mohamed A. El-Erian		2020 –	Economist, previously Chief Executive Officer at PIMCO

Notes and References

1. Web site: Presidents . Queens' College, Cambridge . 24 November 2023.