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PROVOSTS of KING's COLLEGE Name Appointed William Millington PROVOSTS OF KING’S COLLEGE Name Appointed William Millington 1441 John Chedworth 1447 Robert Wodelark 1452 Walter Field 1479 John Dogget 1499 John Argentine 1501 Richard Hatton 1508 Robert Hacomblen 1509 Edward Fox 1528 George Day 1538 John Cheke 1549 Richard Atkinson 1553 Robert Brassie 1556 Philip Baker 1558 Roger Goad 1570 Fogge Newton 1610 William Smith 1612 Samuel Collins 1615 Benjamin Whichcote 1645 James Fleetwood 1660 Thomas Page 1676 John Coplestone 1681 Charles Roderick 1689 John Adams 1712 Andrew Snape 1720 William George 1743 John Sumner 1756 William Cooke 1772 Humphrey Sumner 1797 George Thackeray 1814 Richard Okes 1850 Augustus Austen Leigh 1889 Montague Rhodes James 1905 Walter Durnford 1918 Alan England Brooke 1926 John Tresidder Sheppard 1933 Stephen Glanville 1954 Noel Annan 1956 Edmund Leach 1966 Bernard Williams 1979 Patrick Bateson 1988 Judith Mayhew-Jonas 2003 Ross Harrison 2006, 2011 Michael Proctor 2013 VICE PROVOSTS OF KING’S COLLEGE* Name Appointed Robert Woodlarke (probably) 1447 Information not available for 1448-1456. Tho Rother(h)am 1456 John Langport 1458 Richard Roche 1465 John Combe 1470 John Wellis 1478 John Hogekyns 1479 John Wellys 1480 Will Clerk 1484 Brian Esthorp 1487 John Hogekyns 1489 Robert Hacumblen 1491 John Hogekyns 1493 Richard Stephens 1494 William Scales 1506 Thomas Stevyns [Stevens] 1511 John Sampson 1514 Brian Row 1519 Rob Noke 1521 William Dussing 1525 Giles Ayre 1536 [Venn says 1634-1638] Will Skete 1540 Rob Brassey 1540 Richard Atkynson 1542 Henry Bissell 1548 Edmund Guest [or Geast] 1550 William Whynke [or Wincke] 1553 William Whitlock 1556 Alan Parr 1559 James Cole 1574 Robert Coomie [or Coney] 1578 Osmund Lakes 1579 Alex Bound 1580 Henry Haies 1581 Thomas Mead 1582 Nicholas Foster 1584 John Barnes 1585 Richard Woodcock 1588 Richard More 1590 Edward Sharpe 1592 Thomas Munke [or Monke] 1594 Henry Banister 1600 Richard Sutton 1607 Roger Gostwick 1608 Henry Banister 1609 Humphrey Tredway 1610 Richard Lancaster 1612 Samuel Collins 1613 John Aldem 1615 Thomas Langley 1616 Henry Howgrave 1617 Arthur Johnson 1619 Edward Hind 1621 John Norton 1622 Philip Clifford 1625 John Smithson 1627 Cuthbert Pearson 1630 Thomas Goad 1633 Humphrey Byng [or Bing] 1634 Thomas Roe 1635 Henry Molle [or Mole] 1639 Thomas Allmon 1650 Matthew Barlow 1651 Thomas Gearing 1652 William Fairbrother 1653 Charles Nevill 1654 Edmund Vintener 1655 William Fairbrother 1656 Charles Nevill 1657 Matthew Barlow 1658 Oliver Doylie [or Doyley] 1664 Thomas Gearing 1665 John Smith 1694 Henry Bowles 1705 Samuel Noyes 1706 John Turner 1708 William Donne 1711 John Hayley 1719 Edward Martin 1720 William Thackham 1720 William Willymott 1721 Robert Parr 1733 William Willymott 1734 John Showell 1736 John Naylor 1743 Robert Bland 1745 William Hanmer 1758 Robert Glynn 1761 Elias Thackeray 1772 John Hawtrey 1776 William Paddon 1779 Pell Akehurst 1780 Francis Barnes 1784 Benjamin Sheppard 1788 Thomas Ellison 1789 Charles Simeon 1790 Thomas Key 1792 John Henry Michell 1796 Daniel Pulteney 1798 John Henry Michell 1801 Daniel Pulteney 1803 Joah Furey 1810 Thomas Hart 1815 Edward Rene Payne 1817 Samuel Vince 1819 Martin Thackeray 1826 Peter Robert Venables Hinde 1834 George Frederic Nicholas 1835 James Packe 1838 Henry George Hand 1848 Edward Reed Theed 1851 Robert William Bacon 1853 George Williams 1854 Edward Reed Theed 1857 Andrew Long 1859 Thomas Brocklebank 1871 Augustus Austen Leigh 1877 Frederick Whitting 1889 Walter Durnford 1909 William Herrick Macaulay 1918 Arthur Berry 1924 John Tresidder Sheppard 1929 John Clapham 1933 Charles Inglis 1943 Donald Howard Beves 1946 Frank Ezra Adcock 1951 John Saltmarsh 1955 (Lancelot) Patrick Wilkinson 1961 Edward Samuel Shire 1965 Donald Ambrose Parry 1969 Daniel McGillivray Brown 1974 Henry Berkeley Franks 'Hal' Dixon 1981 Iain Alexander Fenlon 1986 Nicholas Oliver Alan Bullock 1990 Henry Berkeley Franks 'Hal' Dixon [acting] 1994 John Douglass Barber 1995 Henry Berkeley Franks 'Hal' Dixon [acting] 1996 John Douglass Barber 1998 Morris Keith Hopkins 2000 Tessara Strang Adkins 2004 Peter Murray Jones [acting] 2006 Tessara Strang Adkins 2007 Basim Fuad Musallam 2008 (Eric) Robert Wallach 2013 Nicholas John Marston 2016 Peter Murray Jones [acting] 2020 *The majority of this information is taken from KCHR/3/1/13 and JS/1/60. .
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