List of wardens of Merton College, Oxford explained

This is a list of Wardens of Merton College, Oxford.

• Peter of Abingdon, 1264–86
• Richard Werplysdon, 1286–95
• John de la More, 1295–99
• John de Wantynge, 1299–1328
• Robert Trenge, 1328–51
• William Durant, 1351–75
• John Bloxham, 1375–87
• John Wendover, 1387–98
• Edmund Bekyngham,^[1] 1398–1416
• Thomas Rodebourne, 1416–17
• Robert Gilbert, 1417–21
• Henry Abyndon, 1421–37
• Elias Holcot, 1437–55
• Henry Sever, 1455–71
• John Gigur, 1471–82
• Richard Fitzjames, 1482–1507
• Thomas Harper, 1507–08
• Richard Rawlins, 1508–21
• Roland Philips, 1521–25
• John Chambers, 1525–44
• Henry Tindall, 1544–45
• Thomas Reynolds, 1545–59
• James Gervase, 1559–62
• John Man, 1562–69
• Thomas Bickley, 1569–85
• Henry Savile, 1585–1621
• Nathaniel Brent, 1621–45
• William Harvey, 1645–46
• Nathaniel Brent, 1646–51
• Jonathan Goddard, 1651–60
• Edward Reynolds, 1660–61
• Thomas Clayton, 1661–93
• Richard Lydall, 1693–1704
• Edmund Martin, 1704–09
• John Holland, 1709–34
• Robert Wyntle, 1734–50
• John Robinson, 1750–59
• Henry Barton, 1759–90
• Scrope Berdmore, 1790–1810
• Peter Vaughan, 1810–26
• Robert Bullock Marsham, 1826–80
• George Charles Brodrick, 1881–1903
• Thomas Bowman, 1904–36
• John Charles Miles, 1936–47
• Geoffrey Reginald Gilchrist Mure, 1947–63
• Robin Harrison, 1963–69
• Sir Rex Richards, 1969–84
• John M. Roberts, 1984–94
• Dame Jessica Rawson, 1994–2010
• Sir Martin J. Taylor, 2010–2018
• Steven Gunn (acting), 2018–2019
• Irene Tracey, 2019–22
• Jennifer Payne, 2023–present

See also

• Merton College, Oxford
• List of alumni of Merton College, Oxford

Notes and References

1. http://aalt.law.uh.edu/H4/CP40no605/bCP40ono605dorses/IMG_1432.htm

   4th entry, dated 1412