Oxford University Chancellors

• 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
• 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