Dean of Exeter explained

The Dean of Exeter is the head of the Chapter of Cathedral Church of Saint Peter in Exeter, England.^[1] The chapter was established by William Briwere, Bishop of Exeter (1224–44) who set up the offices of dean and chancellor of Exeter Cathedral, allowing the chapter to elect those officers.^[2] The deanery is at 10 The Close, Exeter. The current dean is Jonathan Greener.

List of deans

High Medieval

• 1225–1231 Serlo
• 1231–1252 Roger de Wynkleigh
• 1252–1268 William de Stanwey
• 1268–1274 Roger de Toriz
• 1274–1280 John Noble
• 1280–1283 John Pycot
• 1283–1302 Andrew de Kilkenny

Late Medieval

• 1302–1307 Henry de Somerset
• 1307–1309 Thomas de Lechlade
• 1311–1326 Bartholomew de Sancto Laurentio
• 1328–1335 Richard de Coleton
• 1335–1353 Richard de Braylegh
• 1353–1363 Reginald de Bugwell
• 1363–1378 Robert Sumpter
• 1378–1385 Thomas Walkyngton
• 1385–1415 Ralph Tregrision
• 1415–1419 Stephen Payn
• 1419–1457 John Cobethorn
• 1457–1459 John Hals
• 1459–1477 Henry Webber
• 1477–1478 Peter Courtenay
• 1478–1482 Lionel Woodville
• 1482–1496 John Arundel

Early modern

• 1496–1509 Edward Willoughby
• 1509 Thomas Hobbes
• 1509–1519 John Vesey
• 1519–1527 Richard Pace
• 1527–1537 Reginald Pole
• 1537–1552 Simon Haynes
• 1553 James Haddon
• 1554–1558 Thomas Reynolds
• 1560–1570 Gregory Dodds
• 1571–1583 George Carew
• 1583–1588 Stephen Townesend
• 1589–1629 Matthew Sutcliffe
• 1629–1661 William Peterson
• 1661–1662 Seth Ward
• 1662–1663 Edward Young
• 1663–1680 George Cary (1611-1680), of Clovelly
• 1680–1701 The Hon Richard Annesley, later 3rd Baron Altham

(The Lord Altham from 1700)

• 1703–1705 William Wake
• 1705–1717 Lancelot Blackburne
• 1717–1726 Edward Trelawney
• 1726–1740 John Gilbert
• 1741–1742 Alured Clarke
• 1742–1748 William Holmes
• 1748–1762 Charles Lyttleton

• 1762–1784 Jeremiah Milles
• 1784–1790 William Buller
• 1790–1802 Charles Harward

Late modern

• 1803–1809 Charles Talbot
• 1809–1810 George Gordon
• 1810–1813 John Garnett
• 1813–1838 Whittington Landon
• 1839–1861 Thomas Lowe
• 1861–1863 Charles Ellicott
• 1863–1867 The Viscount Midleton
• 1867–1883 Archibald Boyd
• 1883–1900 Benjamin Cowie
• 1900–1918 Alfred Earle
• 1918–1931 Henry Gamble
• 1931–1934 Walter Matthews
• 1935–1950 Spencer Carpenter
• 1950–1960 Alexander Wallace
• 1960–1972 Marcus Knight
• 1973–1980 Clifford Chapman
• 1981–1995 Richard Eyre
• 1996–2004 Keith Jones
• 2005–2011 Jonathan Meyrick^[3]
• 2012–2017 Jonathan Draper
• 26 November 2017present Jonathan Greener^[4]

References

• Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae Vol.1 p.428
• Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae Vol.1 p.429
• Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae Vol.1 p.430
• Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae Vol.1 p.431

Notes and References

1. Details up to 1950 are from: Ursula Radford. An Introduction to the Deans of Exeter. Report & Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 1955. 87. 1–24.
2. Encyclopedia: Barlow . Frank . Frank Barlow (historian) . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Brewer, William (d. 1244). 12 April 2008 . 2004 . Oxford University Press . 10.1093/ref:odnb/50339 .
3. Web site: Bishop of Lynn . Diocese of Norwich . 16 December 2016 . 9 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160309152415/http://www.dioceseofnorwich.org/about/bishops/lynn . dead .
4. https://www.wakefieldcathedral.org.uk/news/2017/09/wakefields-dean-on-the-move Wakefield Cathedral — Dean of Wakefield on the Move