Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge

The Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge (formerly the Master of Peterhouse College) is the head of the oldest Cambridge University college, Peterhouse. As of 2014 there have been 52 masters (counting John Cosin twice), the incumbent being Bridget Kendall.

List of masters

1. Gerard de Hoo: occurs 1290, after 21 June.
2. Robert de Winwick: c.1330, occurs 1333, vacated 1338.
3. Robert de Mildenhall: occurs 12 May 1338. (Disputed by Venn as de Mildenhall was Master of Michaelhouse 1328 to at least 1347)
4. Roger de la Goter of St. Botolph: occurs 1338–9 and 1340.
5. Ralph de Holbeche: occurs April 1344, resigned 1349.
6. William de Whittlesea: 10 September 1349, resigned 1351, died 5 June 1374.
7. Richard de Wisbeche: 1351 to c. 1364-74.
8. Thomas de Wormenhall: c. 1364-74, died 1381–2.
9. John de Newton: 3 March 1382, resigned 1397, died 1414.
10. William Cavendish: 11 April 1397, resigned 1397.
11. John de Bottlesham: 27 August 1397, resigned 1400, died 17 April 1404.
12. Thomas de Castro-Bernardi: 14 June 1400, occurs 1417–18, died 1420–1.
13. John Holbroke: occurs before 1421, possibly from 1418, probably died 1436.
14. Thomas Lane: perhaps 1436, occurs 1438, died 1473.
15. John Warkworth: 6 November 1473, died October 1500.
16. Thomas Denman: 19 November 1500, died 1500–1.
17. Henry Hornby: 1500–1, died 1517–18.
18. William Burgoyne: 18 or 19 February 1518, died before 30 January 1523.
19. John Edmunds: occurs from Michaelmas 1523, died November 1544.
20. Ralph Aynsworth: 1544, ejected 1553, died 1554.
21. Andrew Perne: 4 February 1554, died 26 April 1589.
22. Robert Some: 11 May 1589, died 1608–9.
23. John Richardson: 30 January 1609, resigned 27 May 1615, died 20 April 1625.
24. Thomas Turner: 15 June 1615, died October 1617.
25. Leonard Mawe: 16 November 1617, resigned 1625–6, died 3 September 1629.
26. Matthew Wren: 1625–6, resigned 22 January 1635, died 24 April 1667.
27. John Cosin: 8 February 1635, ejected 13 March 1644, restored 3 August 1660, resigned 18 October 1660.
28. Lazarus Seaman: 11 April 1644, ejected 1660.
29. John Cosin: for the second time (vide ultra)
30. Bernard Hale: 5 November 1660, died 29 March 1663.
31. Joseph Beaumont: 24 April 1663, died 24 November 1699.
32. Thomas Richardson: 9 December 1699, died 30 July 1733.
33. John Whalley: 21 August 1733, probably died 1748.
34. Edmund Keene: 29 December 1748, resigned 25 October 1754, died 6 July 1781.
35. Edmund Law: 12 November 1754, died 14 August 1787.
36. Francis Barnes: 3 May 1788, died before 2 May 1838.
37. William Hodgson: 16 May 1838, died 16 October 1847.
38. Henry Wilkinson Cookson: 3 or 4 November 1847, died 30 September 1876.
39. James Porter: 28 October 1876, died 2 October 1900.
40. Adolphus William Ward: 29 October 1900, died 19 June 1924.
41. Robert, Baron Chalmers: 5 July 1924, resigned 1931, died 17 November 1938.
42. Sir William Birdwood: 20 April 1931, resigned 1938, died 17 May 1951.
43. Harold Temperley: 1 July 1938, died 11 July 1939.
44. Paul Cairn Vellacott: 29 July 1939, died 15 November 1954.
45. Herbert Butterfield: 17 January 1955, 1968
46. John Charles Burkill: 1968, 1973
47. Grahame Clark: 1973, 1980
48. Hugh Trevor-Roper: 1980, 1987
49. Henry Chadwick: 1987, 1993
50. Sir John Meurig Thomas: 1993, 2002
51. David Wilson: 2002, 2008
52. Adrian Dixon: 2008, 2016
53. Bridget Kendall: 2016

See also

• List of members of Peterhouse, Cambridge
• List of Vice-Chancellors of the University of Cambridge

References

• Victoria County Histories, A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 3, The City and University of Cambridge, The colleges and halls: Peterhouse, (pp. 334-340) London, 1959.

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