List of Chancellors of the University of Cambridge

This is a list of Chancellors of the University of Cambridge, from about 1246 to the present day:

• Hugh de Hotton , c. 1246
• Reginald Gerninghall , 1256
• Stephen Hepworth , 1257
• William de Ludham , 1259
• Richard de Gedney , 1260
• Richard Dryfield , 1261
• John de Asgarby , 1267
• John Hooke , 1270-1275
• Roger de Fulbourn , 1276
• Andrew de Gisleham , 1283
• Thomas Sheringham , 1286
• Stephen Hepworth , 1287
• Ralph de Leicester , 1289-1290
• Geoffery de Pakenham , 1290-1292
• Henry de Boyton , 1293-1295
• John de Bradenham , 1295-1296
• Thomas de Sheringham , 1296-1299
• Stephen Hepworth , 1299
• Stephen Haslingfield , 1300-1303
• Stephen de Segrace , 1303-1307
• Stephen Haslingfield , 1307
• Richard de Ashton , 1315
• Roger Northburgh, 1321-1326
• Richard de Badew , 1326-1329
• Thomas de Foxton , 1329-1331
• Robert de Winwick , c. 1330
• John de Langley , 1331-1334
• Robert de Mildenhall , 1334-1335
• Henry de Herwarden , 1335-1337
• Richard Harling (or Ling) , 1337-1339
• Robert de Claydon , 1340
• Thomas de Northwood , 1341
• Thomas de Northwood , 1344
• John de Crakhall , 1346-1348
• Thomas de Grantchester , 1348
• William de Lymbergh , 1348
• Richard de Wetherset (or Hetherset, Wetheringsett) , 1349-1351
• Richard Harling , 1351
• Anthony of Grantchester , 1352
• William Tynkell , 1352-1359
• Thomas Sutton, 1359-1360
• Richard de Wetherset , 1360-1361
• Michael de Haynton , 1361-1362
• Michael de Causton , 1361-1366
• William de Gotham , 1366-1369
• Thomas de Stewkley , 1369
• John de Donwich , 1371
• Adam de Lakenheath , 1373-1374
• John de Donwich , 1374
• William de Gotham , 1376
• Richard Scrope , 1378-1379
• Eudo (or Guy) Zouche , 1380
• John Cavendish, 1380-1381
• Guy Zouche , 1382
• John de Bromyard , 1382-1383
• John of Neketon , 1383
• John de Burgh (or Borough) , 1384
• Thomas Hetherset (or de Hethersett) , 1385
• John de Burgh , 1386
• William Colvile , 1388
• Richard Dereham , 1390-1391
• William Colvile , 1391
• John de Neketon , 1392
• William Colvile , 1394
• Guy Zouche , 1396
• Richard Billingford , 1400-1402
• Richard Dereham , 1404-1408
• Richard Billingford , 1409-1413
• Stephen le Scrope , 1414
• John de Rickingale , 1415-1422
• Thomas of Cobham , 1422-1423
• Robert Fitzhugh , 1424-1426
• William Wymbell , 1426
• Marmaduke Lumley, 1427
• John Holeroke , 1429-1430
• William Lascells , 1431-1432
• Richard Billingford , 1432
• Richard Cawdray , 1433-1435
• John Langton, 1436-1445
• Nicholas Kenton , 1445-1446
• John Langton, 1447
• Robert Ascogh , 1448
• Nicholas Close, 1450-1451
• William Percy , 1451-1456
• Laurence Booth , 1456-1458
• William Wilflete (or Wolflet) , 1458
• Robert Woodlark , 1459-1460
• Richard Scroope , 1461
• Robert Woodlark , 1462-1463
• John Booth , 1463-1464
• William Wilflete , 1464
• John Harrison (or Herrison) , 1465-1468
• William Wilflete , 1466
• Edward Story, 1468-1469
• Thomas Rotherham (or Scot), 1469-1471
• Edward Story, 1471-1472
• Thomas Rotherham, 1473-1479
• John Boynton , 1479-1483
• Thomas Rotherham, 1483-1485
• Thomas Cosyn , 1490
• John Blythe , 1494-1496
• George Fitzhugh, , 1496-1499
• Thomas Rotherham, 1499-1500
• Richard Fox, 1500
• George Fitzhugh, 1502
• Thomas Ruthall (or Rowthall) , 1503
• John Fisher, 1504-1535
• Thomas Cromwell, 1535-1540
• Stephen Gardiner, 1540-1547
• Edward Seymour, 1547-1552
• John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, 1552-1553
• Stephen Gardiner, 1553-1555
• Reginald Pole, 1556-1558
• William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, 1559-1598
• Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, 1598-1601
• Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, 1601-1612
• Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton, 1612-1614
• Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk, 1614-1626
• George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, 1626-1628
• Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, 1628-1649
• Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, 1649-1651
• Oliver St John, 1651-1660
• Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, 1660-1671
• George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, 1671-1674
• James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, 1674-1682
• Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, 1682-1688
• Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, 1689-1748
• Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, 1748-1768
• Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, 1768-1811
• William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester, 1811-1834
• John Jeffreys Pratt, 1st Marquess Camden, 1834-1840
• Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke of Northumberland, 1840-1847
• Prince Albert, The Prince Consort, 1847-1861
• William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire, 1861-1891
• Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire, 1892-1908
• John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, 1908-1919
• Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, 1919-1930
• Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, 1930-1947
• Jan Christiaan Smuts, 1948-1950
• Arthur William Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder, 1950-1967
• Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1967-1976
• Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 1976-

Taken from the Victoria County History.

See also

• List of Vice-Chancellors of the University of Cambridge