List of rectors of Exeter College, Oxford explained

The following is a list of rectors of Exeter College, Oxford.

Rectors of Exeter College

1566–1887

• John Neale (Whitsuntide 1566 – deprived 12 October 1570)
• Robert Newton (31 October 1570 – resigned 4 October 1578 (see above))
• Thomas Glasier (21 October 1578 – d. 9 March 1592)
• Thomas Holland (24 April 1592 – d. 17 March 1612)
• John Prideaux (4 April 1612 – resigned 3 August 1642)
• George Hakewill (23 August 1642 – d. 2 April 1649)
• John Conant (7 June 1649 – deprived 1 September 1662)
• Joseph Maynard (18 September 1662 – resigned 30 April 1666)
• Arthur Bury (27 May 1666 – deprived 26 July 1690)
• William Paynter (15 August 1690 –d. 18 February 1716)
• Mathew Hole (8 March 1716 – d. 19 July 1730)
• John Conybeare (6 August 1730 – resigned 29 January 1733)
• Joseph Atwell (17 February 1733 – resigned 3 March 1737)
• James Edgcumbe (11 April 1737 – d. 16 May 1750)
• Francis Webber (5 June 1750 – d. 29 September 1771)
• Thomas Bray (22 October 1771 – d. 28 March 1785)
• Thomas Stinton (15 April 1785 – d. 6 July 1787)
• Henry Richards (23 July 1797 – d. 19 December 1807)
• John Cole (7 January 1808 – d. 13 October 1819)
• John Collier Jones (6 November 1819 – d. 7 August 1838)
• Joseph Loscombe Richards (1 September 1838 – d. 27 February 1854)
• John Prideaux Lightfoot (18 March 1854 – d. 23 March 1887)

1887–present

• William Jackson Jr (15 April 1887 – resigned 25 March 1913)
• Lewis Richard Farnell (15 April 1913 – resigned 19 September 1928)
• Robert Ranulph Marett (10 October 1928 – d. 18 February 1943)
• Eric Arthur Barber (26 September 1943 – 1956)
• Sir Kenneth Clinton Wheare (1956 – resigned 1972)
• Greig Barr (1972 – resigned 1982) (d. 23 April 2008)
• The Lord Crowther-Hunt (1982 – d. 16 February 1987)
• Sir Richard Norman (1987 – d. 6 June 1993)
• Marilyn Butler (1993–2004)
• Dame Frances Cairncross (2004–2014)
• Sir Rick Trainor (October 2014)
• Major General Andrew Roe (elected June 2023 to take effect from October 2024)

References

• 'Exeter College', A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3: The University of Oxford (1954), pp. 107–118. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63875. Date accessed: 25 February 2008.