List of deans of Peterborough

A list of deans of Peterborough Cathedral. On the Dissolution of Peterborough Abbey in 1539 and the abbey-church's refoundation as a cathedral for the new bishop and diocese of Peterborough, care for the abbey/cathedral church passed to a dean.

16th century

• Francis Alree or Abree alias Leycester, prior of St. Andrew's, Northampton on its Dissolution, 1541
• Gerard Carleton occurs 1543, died 1549
• James Coorthopp or Curthopp 1549, died 1557
• John Boxall 1557, deprived 1559-60
• William Latymer 1560, died 1583
• Richard Fletcher 1583, bishop of Bristol 1589
• Thomas Nevil 1590-1, dean of Canterbury 1597
• John Palmer 1597, died 1607

17th century

• Richard Clayton 1607, died 1612
• George Meriton 1612, dean of York 1617
• Henry Beaumont 1616-7, dean of Windsor 1622
• William Pierse 1622, subsequently Bishop of Peterborough 1630
• John Towers 1630, subsequently Bishop of Peterborough 1639
• Thomas Jackson 1638-9, died 1640
• John Cosin 1640, bishop of Durham 1660
• Edward Rainbow 1660-1, bishop of Carlisle 1664
• James Duport 1664, died 1679
• Simon Patrick 1679, bishop of Chichester 1689
• Richard Kidder 1689, bishop of Bangor 1721
• Samuel Freeman 1691, died 1707

18th century

• White Kennet 1707-8, subsequently Bishop of Peterborough 1718
• Richard Reynolds 1718, bishop of Bath and Wells 1691
• Edward Gee 1721, dean of Lincoln 1722
• John Mandeville 1722, died 1724-5
• Francis Lockier 1724-5, died 1740
• John Thomas 1740, bishop of St. Asaph 1743
• Robert Lambe, 1744, subsequently Bishop of Peterborough 1764
• Charles Tarrant 1764, died 1791
• Charles Manners Sutton 1791, bishop of Norwich 1792
• Peter Peckard 1792, died 1798

19th century

• Thomas Kipling 1798, died 1822
• James Henry Monk 1822, bishop of Gloucester 1830
• Thomas Turton 1830, resigned 1842
• George Butler 1842
• A. P. Sanders 1853
• John James Stewart Perowne 1878, bishop of Worcester 1890
• M. Argles 1890
• William Clavell Ingram 1892

20th century to present

• William Hagger Barlow 1901
• ?(multiple holders) 1901-1966
• Richard (Dick) Shuttleworth Wingfield-Digby, 1966 - 1980 [1]
• Michael Bunker, 1993 - 31 March 2006[2]
• Charles Taylor, 2006-present[3]

Sources

• http://www.peterborough.gov.uk/page-5878
• 'Houses of Benedictine monks: The abbey of Peterborough', A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 2 (1906), pp. 83-95. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=40221. Date accessed: 29 May 2007.