List of masters of Pembroke College, Cambridge

Summary

The following persons have served as Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge:

Name Portrait Term of office
Robert de Thorpe 1347?
(fl. 1354)[1]
c. 1364
Thomas de Bingham c. 1364[2] c. 1374
John Tynmouth or Tinmew 1374?
(fl. 1380)
1385†
Richard Morys 1385?
(fl. 1389)[3]
1406?
John Sudbury 1406 1428
(resigned)
John Langton 1428 22 May 1447†
Hugh Damlet 1447 1449
(resigned)
Lawrence Booth 31 May 1450 19 May 1480†
Thomas Rotherham 1480 1488
(resigned)
George Fitzhugh 14 September 1488 November 1505†
Roger Leyburn 29 November 1505 c. 1 August 1507†
Richard Foxe 1507 19 October 1518
(resigned)
Robert Shorton 1518 1534
(resigned)
Robert Swinburn before 4 October 1534 October 1537
(resigned)
George Folberry 1537 October 1540†
Nicholas Ridley October 1540 1554
(deprived)
John Young (I) 24 December 1554 20 July 1559
(deprived)
Edmund Grindal 20 July 1559 16 August 1561
(resigned)
Matthew Hutton 14 May 1562 1567
(resigned)
John Whitgift 21 April 1567 July 1567
(resigned)
John Young (II) 12 July 1567 16 March 1578
(resigned)
William Fulke 10 May 1578 28 August 1589†
Lancelot Andrewes 6 September 1589 1605
(resigned)
Samuel Harsnett November 1605 18 February 1616
(resigned)
Nicholas Felton 29 June 1616 18 February 1619
(resigned)
Jerome Beale 21 February 1619 September 1630†
Benjamin Lany 25 December 1630 13 March 1644
(ejected)
Richard Vines 13 March 1644 1 October 1650
(ejected)
Sidrach Simpson 1650 April 1655†
William Moses April 1655 1660
(ejected)
Benjamin Lany 1660
(restored)
16 August 1662
(resigned)
Mark Frank 23 August 1662 January 1664†
Robert Mapletoft c. May 1664 20 August 1677†
Nathaniel Coga 20 August 1677 8 January 1694†
Thomas Browne 10 February 1694 9 March 1707†
Edward Lany 19 March 1707 9 August 1728†
John Hawkins 15 August 1728 October 1733
(resigned)
Roger Long 12 October 1733 16 December 1770†
James Brown 16 December 1770 30 September 1784†
Joseph Turner 6 October 1784 3 August 1828†
Gilbert Ainslie 15 August 1828 9 January 1870†
John Power 14 January 1870 18 November 1880†
Charles Edward Searle 24 November 1880 29 July 1902†
Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Bt. 26 August 1902 7 February 1903†
Arthur James Mason 11 March 1903 15 June 1912
(resigned)
William Sheldon Hadley 19 June 1912 25 December 1927†
Arthur Hutchinson 16 January 1928 30 September 1937
(retired)
Sir Montagu Sherard Dawes Butler 1 October 1937 31 July 1948
(retired)
Sir Sydney Castle Roberts 1 August 1948 1958
Sir William Vallance Douglas Hodge 1 August 1958 1970
William Anthony Camps 1970 1981[4]
The Lord Adrian 1981 1992
Sir Roger Tomkys 1992 2004
Sir Richard Dearlove 2004 31 July 2015
(retired)
The Lord Smith of Finsbury 2015 incumbent

References edit

  1. ^ Pembroke College, Cambridge: A Short History: Robert de Thorpe
  2. ^ ibid.: Thomas de Bingham
  3. ^ ibid.: Richard Morys
  4. ^ Robert Sanders (26 March 1997). "Obituary: W. A. Camps". The Independent. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
  • http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66645