Year |
Chancellor |
1224 |
Robert Grosseteste (Master of the School of Oxford since 1208) |
1231 |
Ralph Cole (surname queried) |
1231 |
Ralph de Maidstone[4] |
1231 |
Richard Batchden |
1233 |
Ralph Cole |
1238 |
Simon de Bovill |
1239 |
John de Rygater |
1240 |
Richard of Chichester |
1240 |
Ralph de Heyham |
1244 |
Simon de Bovill |
1246 |
Gilbert de Biham |
1252 |
Ralph de Sempringham |
1255 |
William de Lodelawe |
1256 |
Richard de S. Agatha |
1262 |
Thomas de Cantilupe |
1264 |
Henry de Cicestre ? |
1267 |
Nicholas de Ewelme |
1269 |
Thomas Bek |
1273 |
William de Bosco |
1276 |
Eustace de Normanville |
1280 |
John de Pontissara / John of Pontoise (Bishop of Winchester) |
1280 |
Henry de Stanton |
1282 |
William de Montfort |
1283 |
Roger de Rowell or Rodwell or Rodewell |
1284 |
William Pikerell |
1285 |
Hervey de Saham |
1288 |
Robert Winchelsey |
1289 |
William de Kingescote |
1290 |
John de Ludlow |
1290 |
John of Monmouth (afterwards Bishop of Llandaff) |
1291 |
Simon of Ghent (afterwards Bishop of Salisbury) |
1292 |
Henry Swayne ? |
1293 |
Roger de Martival (afterwards Bishop of Salisbury) |
1294 |
Peter de Medburn |
1294 |
Roger de Weseham |
1297 |
Richard de Clyve |
1300 |
James de Cobeham |
1302 |
Walter de Wetheringsete |
1304 |
Simon de Faversham |
1306 |
Walter Burdun |
1308 |
William de Bosco |
1309 |
Henry de Maunsfeld |
1311 |
Walter Giffard |
1311 |
Henry de Maunsfeld |
1313 |
Henry Harclay |
1316 |
Richard de Nottingham ? |
1317 |
John Lutterell |
1322 |
Henry Gower (afterwards Bishop of St David's) |
1324 |
William de Alburwyke |
1326 |
Thomas Hotham |
1328 |
Ralph of Shrewsbury |
1329 |
Roger de Streton |
1330 |
Nigel de Wavere |
1332 |
Ralph Radyn |
1334 |
Hugh de Willoughby |
1335 |
Robert de Stratford (later Bishop of Chichester, Lord High Chancellor of England) |
1338 |
Robert Paynink ? |
1338 |
John Leech |
1339 |
William de Skelton |
1341 |
Walter de Scauren |
1341 |
William de Bergeveney |
1345 |
John de Northwode |
1349 |
William de Hawkesworth |
1350 |
William de Palmorna (1350–1351) |
1354 |
Humphrey de Cherlton |
1357 |
Lewis Charlton ? |
1357 |
John de Hotham |
1358 |
John Renham or Reigham |
1359 |
John de Hotham |
1360 |
Richard Fitz Ralph ? |
1360 |
Nicholas de Aston |
1363 |
John de Renham |
1363 |
John de Echingham or Hethingham |
1366 |
Adam de Toneworth |
1367 |
William Courtney (afterwards Bishop of Hereford, London, Canterbury) |
1369 |
Adam de Toneworth |
1371 |
William de Heytisbury |
1372 |
William de Remmyngton |
1373 |
William de Wylton |
1376 |
John Turke |
1377 |
Adam de Toneworth |
1379 |
Robert Aylesham |
1379 |
William Berton |
1381 |
Robert Rygge or Rugge |
1382 |
William Berton |
1382 |
Robert Rygge |
1382 |
Nicholas Hereford |
1382 |
William Rugge ? |
1383 |
Robert Rygge |
1388 |
Thomas Brightwell |
1390 |
Thomas Cranley (afterwards Archbishop of Dublin) |
1391 |
Robert Rygge |
1392 |
Ralph Redruth |
1393 |
Thomas Prestbury |
1394 |
Robert Arlyngton |
1395 |
Thomas Hyndeman |
1397 |
Philip Repyngdon (afterwards Bishop of Lincoln) |
1397 |
Henry Beaufort (afterwards Bishop of Lincoln and Winchester) |
1399 |
Thomas Hyndeman |
1400 |
Philip Repyngdon |
1403 |
Robert Alum or Hallam (afterwards Bishop of Salisbury) |
1407 |
Richard Courtenay |
1407 |
Richard Ullerston |
1408 |
William Clynt |
1409 |
Thomas Prestbury |
1410 |
William Sulburge |
1411 |
Richard Courtenay |
1412 |
William Sulburge |
1412 |
Richard Courtenay |
1413 |
William Sulburge |
1413 |
William Barrow (afterwards Bishop of Bangor and of Carlisle)[5] |
1414 |
Richard Snetisham |
1415 |
William Barrow |
1416 |
Thomas Clare |
1416 |
William Barrow |
1417 |
Thomas Clare |
1417 |
Walter Treugof |
1419 |
Robert Colman |
1419 |
Walter Treugof |
1420 |
Thomas Rodborne |
1420 |
Walter Treugof |
1421 |
John Castell |
1426 |
Thomas Chase (afterwards Chancellor of Ireland) |
1431 |
Gilbert Kymer |
1433 |
Thomas Bourchier (Archbishop of Canterbury) |
1437 |
John Carpenter |
1438 |
Richard Praty or Pratty ? |
1439 |
John Norton |
1440 |
Richard Roderham |
1440 |
William Grey (afterwards Bishop of Ely) |
1442 |
Thomas Gascoigne |
1442 |
Henry Sever |
1443 |
Thomas Gascoigne |
1445 |
Robert Thwaits |
1446 |
Gilbert Kymer |
1453 |
George Neville (afterwards Bishop of Exeter and York; Chancellor of England) |
1457 |
Thomas Chaundeler |
1461 |
George Neville |
1472 |
Thomas Chaundeler |
1479 |
Lionel Woodville (afterwards Bishop of Salisbury) |
1483 |
William Dudley |
1483 |
John Russell |
1494 |
John Morton (while also Archbishop of Canterbury and Chancellor of England) |
1500 |
William Smyth |
1502 |
Richard Mayew (Bishop of Hereford) |
1506 |
William Warham |
1532 |
John Longland (Bishop of Lincoln) |
1547 |
Richard Cox |
1552 |
John Mason |
1556 |
Cardinal Reginald Pole (Archbishop of Canterbury) |
1558 |
Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel |
1559 |
John Mason |
1564 |
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester |
1585 |
Sir Thomas Bromley, deputising for Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester) |
1588 |
Sir Christopher Hatton |
1591 |
Thomas Sackville, 1st Baron Buckhurst (Earl of Dorset from 1604) |
1608 |
Richard Bancroft |
1610 |
Thomas Egerton, 1st Baron Ellesmere (Viscount Brackley from 1616) |
1616 |
William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke |
1630 |
William Laud |
1641 |
Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke |
1643 |
William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset |
1648 |
Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke (to his death on 23 January 1649) |
1649 |
Vacant |
1650 |
Oliver Cromwell |
1657 |
Richard Cromwell |
1660 |
William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset |
1660 |
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon |
1667 |
Gilbert Sheldon |
1669 |
James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde |
1688 |
James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde |
1715 |
Charles Butler, 1st Earl of Arran |
1759 |
John Fane, 7th Earl of Westmorland |
1762 |
George Lee, 3rd Earl of Lichfield |
1772 |
Frederick North, Lord North (Earl of Guilford from 1790) |
1792 |
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland |
1809 |
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville |
1834 |
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington |
1852 |
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby |
1869 |
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury |
1903 |
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen[6][7] |
1907 |
George Curzon, 1st Baron Curzon of Kedleston (Earl Curzon of Kedleston from 1911; Marquess Curzon of Kedleston from 1921) |
1925 |
George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave[8][9] - see University of Oxford Chancellor election, 1925 |
1928 |
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon |
1933 |
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Baron Irwin (Viscount Halifax from 1934; Earl of Halifax from 1944), (1933–1959) |
1960 |
Harold Macmillan (Earl of Stockton from 1984), (1960–1986) - see University of Oxford Chancellor election, 1960 |
1987 |
Roy Jenkins[10] (Baron Jenkins of Hillhead from 1987) (1987–2003) - see University of Oxford Chancellor election, 1987 |
2003 |
Chris Patten (Baron Patten of Barnes from 2005) (2003-) - see University of Oxford Chancellor election, 2003 |