Deans of Wells Cathedral

Deans of Wells Cathedral * a layman

1140 – 1164 (c.) Ivo 1164 – 1189 (c.) Richard of Spaxton 1190 – 1213 Alexander 1213 – 1216 Leonius 1216 – 1219 Ralph of Lechlade 1219 – 1236 Peter of Chichester 1236 – 1241 William of Merton 1241 – 1253 John Saracenus 1254 – 1256 Giles of Bridport 1256 – 1284 Edward of Cnoll 1284 – 1292 Thomas Bytton 1292 – 1295 William Burnell 1295 – 1302 Walter Haselshaw 1302 – 1305 Henry Husee 1305 – 1333 John Godelee 1333 – 1333 Richard of Bury 1334 – 1335 Wibert of Littleton 1335 – 1349 Walter of London 1349 – 1350 Thomas Fastolf 1350 – 1361 John of Carleton 1361 – 1379 Stephen Penpel 1379 – 1381 John Fordham 1381 – 1396 Thomas Thebaud of Sudbury 1397 – 1398 Henry Beaufort 1398 – 1401 Nicholas Slake 1401 – 1410 Thomas Tuttebury 1410 – 1413 Richard Courtenay 1413 – 1413 Thomas Karneka 1413 – 1423 Walter Medeford 1423 – 1424 John Stafford 1425 – 1446 John Forest 1446 – 1467 Nicholas Carent 1467 – 1472 William Witham 1472 – 1498 John Gunthorpe 1498 – 1525 William Cosyn 1525 – 1529 Thomas Wynter 1529 – 1537 Richard Woleman 1537 – 1540 Thomas Cromwell* 1540 – 1547 William Fitzjames/Fitzwilliam 1548 – 1550 John Goodman 1551 – 1554 William Turner 1554 – 1560 John Goodman (restored) 1560 – 1568 William Turner (restored) 1570 – 1573 Robert Weston* 1574 – 1589 Valentine Dale* 1590 – 1602 John Herbert* 1602 – 1607 Benjamin Heydon 1607 – 1621 Richard Meredith 1621 – 1631 Ralph Barlow 1631 – 1641 George Warburton 1642 – 1644 Walter Ralegh 1660 – 1670 Robert Creyghton 1670 – 1704 Ralph Bathurst 1704 – 1713 William Grahme (Graham) 1713 – 1733 Matthew Brailsford 1733 – 1736 Isaac Maddox 1736 – 1738 John Harris, Bishop of Llandaff 1739 – 1766 Samuel Creswicke 1766 – 1799 Lord Francis Seymour 1799 – 1812 George William Lukin 1812 – 1831 Hon Henry Ryder, also Bp of Glouc 1815-24; Bp of Lich & Cov 1824 - 36 1831 – 1845 Edmund Goodenough 1845 – 1854 Richard Jenkyns 1854 – 1881 George Johnson 1881 – 1891 Edward Hayes Plumptre 1891 – 1911 Thomas Jex-Blake 1911 – 1933 Joseph Armitage Robinson 1933 – 1950 Richard Malden 1951 – 1958 Frederick Harton 1958 – 1962 Christopher Woodforde 1962 – 1973 Irven David Edwards 1973 – 1989 Patrick Mitchell 1990 – 2003 Richard Lewis 2004 – John Clarke