List of vice-chancellors of the University of Oxford

Chronological list

• 1230 - Elyas de Daneis
• 1270 - Robert Steeton
• 1288 - John Heigham
• 1304 - John de Oseworhd
• 1311 - Walter Gifford
• 1325 - Richard Kamshale
• 1333 - Richard FitzRalph
• 1336 - John de Ayllesbury
• 1337 - John de Reigham
• 1347 - Hugh de Willoughby
• 1348 - William de Hawkesworth
• 1367 - John de Codeford
• 1368 - John de Codeford
• 1377 - Robert Aylesham
• 1382 - Fr Peter Stokes
• 1386 - Henry Nafford or Yafford
• 1389 - John Lyndon
• 1391 - John Ashwardby
• 1394 - Richard Ullerston
• 1396 - Nicholas Faux
• 1397 - William Farendon or Faringdon
• 1399 - John Snappe and others
• 1401 - William Farendon
• 1404 - Griffin Kirkadam
• 1405 - William Farendon
• 1406 - John Whytehede
• 1407 - John Orum
• 1422 - John Daventry
• 1426 - Richard Roderham
• 1430 - Thomas Eglesfield
• 1431 - Richard Roderham
• 1433 - John Burbach or Hurbach
• 1434 - Thomas Gascoigne, Christopher Knolles, John Burbach
• 1435 - John Burbach, Thomas Bonyngworth
• 1436 - John Burbach, Thomas Greneley
• 1437 - John Gorsuch, Thomas Greneley
• 1438 - John Gorsuch, William Hawtrine
• 1439 - John Gorsuch, John Burbach, Thomas Southam, Thomas Gascoigne
• 1440 - John Gorsuch
• 1441 - John Gorsuch, Robert Thwaytes, William Babington
• 1442 - William Grey, William Babington, John Gorsuch, William Westkarre
• 1443 - William Dowson, William Westkarre
• 1444 - William Dowson, Richard Hall, William Westkarre
• 1445 - William Dowson, John Selot
• 1446 - William Westkarre, John Moreton, William Dowson
• 1447 - John Burneby, William Dowson
• 1448 - John Burneby
• 1449 - John Willey, John Burneby, William Dowson
• 1450 - Richard Ringstede, John Beke, Roger Bulkeley, John Van
• 1451 - John Beke, John Van
• 1452 - John Beke, Thomas Tweyn or Yweyn alias Chalke, Thomas Saunders
• 1453 - Luke Lacock, Robert Thwayts, Thomas Saunders
• 1454 - Thomas Tweyn, Thomas Saunders
• 1455 - Thomas Twynge alias Bonifaunt
• 1456 - Thomas Saunders
• 1457 - Thomas Chippenham
• 1458 - Walter Wynhale, Thomas Twynge
• 1459 - John Danvers, Thomas Jaune or Jane
• 1460 - Thomas Tweyn
• 1461 - William Ive, Roger Bulkeley
• 1462 - William Ive
• 1463 - John Watts, Thomas Chaundler, David Husband, John Mulcaster
• 1464 - Laurence Cokkys, Thomas Chaundler, Roger Bulkeley, John Caldbeck, Thomas Person
• 1465 - Thomas Smith, Robert Ixworth, John Caldbeck, Thomas Chaundler
• 1466 - Thomas Chaundler, John Caldbeck, Thomas Stevyn, Laurence Cokkys, Thomas Hill
• 1467 - Thomas Chaundler, Thomas Stevyn, Thomas Walton
• 1468 - Thomas Stevyn, Thomas Jaune
• 1469 - Robert Tulley, Thomas Jaune
• 1470 - Thomas Stevyn
• 1480 - John Lane, William Sutton
• 1481 - Richard Fitzjames, William Sutton
• 1482 - Robert Wrangwais, William Sutton
• 1484 - Richard Mayew, Thomas Pawnton
• 1485 - Richard Mayew
• 1486 - John Taylor
• 1487 - Richard Estmond
• 1488 - John Coldale
• 1489 - John Coldale
• 1490 - John Coldale
• 1491 - Richard Fitzjames, John Coldale
• 1492 - John Coldale
• 1493 - Robert Smith
• 1497 - William Atwater
• 1498 - Thomas Harpur
• 1499 - David Hays, William Atwater, Thomas Chaundeler
• 1500 - William Atwater
• 1501 - Thomas Banke, Hugh Saunders alias Shakspeere
• 1502 - William Atwater, Thomas Banke, Hugh Saunders
• 1503 - John Thornden or Thornton, John Kynton, Simon Grene alias Fotherby
• 1504 - John Kynton, Robert Tehy or Thay
• 1505 - Simon Grene, John Roper, John Adams
• 1506 - John Thornden, William Fauntleroy
• 1507 - John Thornden or Thornton, John Avery, John Kynton
• 1508 - William Fauntleroy, John Thornden
• 1509 - William Fauntleroy
• 1510 - John Thornden, John Mychell
• 1511 - William Fauntleroy, Thomas Drax, John Roper, John Cockys, Edmund Wylsford
• 1512 - Edmund Wylsford, William Fauntleroy, John Kynton
• 1513 - William Fauntleroy, John Kynton, John Thornden
• 1514 - John Thornden, Lawrence Stubbs, Edmund Wylsford, Hugh Whytehead
• 1515 - Edmund Wylsford
• 1516 - Lawrence Stubbs
• 1517 - Richard Duck or Doke
• 1518 - Richard Duck or Doke
• 1519 - Richard Barnack, Richard Duck or Doke
• 1520 - William Broke or Brook, Richard Benger
• 1521 - Richard Benger
• 1522 - Richard Benger
• 1523 - Thomas Musgrave
• 1527 - Martin Lyndsey, John Cottisford
• 1528 - John Cottisford
• 1531 - Henry White
• 1532 - John Cottisford, William Tresham
• 1547 - Walter Wright
• 1550 - William Tresham
• 1551 - Owen Oglethorpe
• 1552 - James Brookes or Brooks, Richard Marshall
• 1553 - Richard Marshall
• 1554 - John Warner
• 1555 - Richard Smyth
• 1556 - William Tresham, Thomas Raynolds
• 1557 - Thomas Raynolds, Thomas Whyte
• 1558 - William Tresham
• 1559 - John Warner
• 1560 - Francis Babbington
• 1561 - Francis Babbington
• 1562 - Thomas Whyte
• 1564 - John Kennall
• 1567 - Thomas Cowper
• 1570 - Thomas Cowper
• 1571 - Lawrence Humphrey
• 1576 - Herbert Westfaling
• 1577 - William Cole
• 1578 - Martin Culpepper
• 1579 - Tobias Matthew
• 1580 - Arthur Yeldard
• 1581 - William James
• 1582 - Robert Hovenden
• 1583 - Thomas Thornton
• 1584 - John Underhill
• 1585 - Edmund Lilly
• 1586 - Daniel Bernard
• 1587 - Francis Wyllis
• 1588 - Martin Heton
• 1589 - Nicholas Bond
• 1590 - William James
• 1592 - Nicholas Bond
• 1593 - Edmund Lilly
• 1596 - Thomas Ravys
• 1598 - Thomas Singleton
• 1599 - Thomas Thornton
• 1600 - George Abbot
• 1601 - George Ryves
• 1602 - John Howson
• 1603 - George Abbot
• 1604 - John Williams
• 1605 - George Abbot
• 1606 - Henry Airay
• 1607 - John King
• 1611 - Thomas Singleton
• 1614 - William Goodwyn
• 1616 - Arthur Lake
• 1617 - William Goodwyn
• 1619 - John Prideaux
• 1621 - William Piers
• 1624 - John Prideaux
• 1626 - William Juxon
• 1628 - Accepted Frewen
• 1630 - William Smyth
• 1632 - Brian Duppa
• 1634 - Robert Pincke
• 1636 - Richard Baylie
• 1638 - Accepted Frewen
• 1640 - Christopher Potter
• 1641 - John Prideaux
• 1642 - John Prideaux in absentia
• 1643 - John Tolson, Robert Pincke
• 1645 - Samuel Fell
• 1648 - Edward Reynolds
• 1650 - Daniel Greenwood
• 1652 - John Owen
• 1657 - John Conant
• 1660 - Paul Hood
• 1661 - Richard Baylie
• 1662 - Walter Blandford
• 1664 - Robert Say
• 1666 - John Fell
• 1669 - Peter Mews
• 1673 - Ralph Bathurst
• 1676 - Henry Clerk
• 1677 - John Nicholas
• 1679 - Timothy Halton
• 1682 - John Lloyd
• 1685 - Timothy Halton
• 1686 - John Venn
• 1687 - Gilbert Ironside
• 1689 - Jonathan Edwards
• 1692 - Henry Aldrich
• 1695 - Fitzherbert Adams
• 1697 - John Meare
• 1698 - William Paynter
• 1700 - Roger Mander
• 1702 - William Delaune
• 1706 - William Lancaster
• 1710 - Thomas Brathwait
• 1712 - Bernard Gardiner
• 1715 - John Baron
• 1718 - Robert Shippen
• 1723 - John Mather
• 1728 - Edward Butler
• 1732 - William Holmes
• 1735 - Stephen Niblett
• 1738 - Theophilus Leigh
• 1741 - Walter Hodges
• 1744 - Euseby Isham
• 1747 - John Purnell
• 1750 - John Browne
• 1753 - George Huddesford
• 1756 - Thomas Randolph
• 1759 - Joseph Browne
• 1765 - David Durell
• 1768 - Nathan Wetherell
• 1772 - Thomas Fothergill
• 1776 - George Horne
• 1780 - Samuel Dennis
• 1784 - Joseph Chapman
• 1788 - John Cooke
• 1792 - John Wills
• 1796 - Scrope Berdmore
• 1797 - Edmund Isham
• 1798 - Michael Marlow
• 1802 - Whittington Landon
• 1806 - Henry Richards
• 1807 - John Parsons
• 1810 - John Cole
• 1814 - Thomas Lee
• 1818 - Frodsham Hodson
• 1820 - George William Hall
• 1824 - Richard Jenkyns
• 1828 - John Collier Jones
• 1832 - George Rowley
• 1836 - Ashhurst Turner Gilbert
• 1840 - Philip Wynter
• 1844 - Benjamin Parsons Symons
• 1848 - Frederick Charles Plumptre
• 1852 - Richard Lynch Cotton
• 1856 - David Williams
• 1858 - Francis Jeune
• 1862 - John Prideaux Lightfoot
• 1866 - Francis Leighton
• 1870 - Henry George Liddell
• 1874 - James Edwards Sewell
• 1878 - Evan Evans
• 1882 - Benjamin Jowett
• 1886 - James Bellamy
• 1890 - Henry Boyd
• 1894 - John Richard Magrath
• 1898 - Sir William Reynell Anson
• 1899 - Thomas Fowler
• 1901 - David Binning Monro
• 1904 - William Walter Merry
• 1906 - Thomas Herbert Warren
• 1910 - Charles Buller Heberden
• 1913 - Thomas Banks Strong
• 1917 - Herbert Edward Douglas Blakiston
• 1920 - Lewis Richard Farnell
• 1923 - Joseph Wells
• 1926 - Francis William Pember
• 1929 - Frederick Homes Dudden
• 1932 - Francis John Lys
• 1935 - Alexander Dunlop Lindsay
• 1938 - George Stuart Gordon
• 1941 - Sir William David Ross
• 1944 - Sir Richard Winn Livingstone
• 1947 - William Teulon Swan Stallybrass
• 1948 - The Very Reverend John Lowe
• 1951 - Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra
• 1954 - Alic Halford Smith
• 1957 - John Cecil Masterman
• 1958 - Thomas Sherrer Ross Boase
• 1960 - Arthur Lionel Pugh Norrington
• 1962 - Walter Fraser Oakeshott
• 1964 - Kenneth Clinton Wheare
• 1966 - John Norman Davidson Kelly
• 1966 - Kenneth Turpin
• 1969 - Alan Bullock, Lord Bullock of Leafield
• 1973 - Sir John Habakkuk
• 1977 - Sir Rex Richards
• 1981 - Sir Geoffrey Warnock
• 1985 - Lord Neill of Bladen
• 1989 - Sir Richard Southwood
• 1993 - Sir Peter North
• 1997 - Sir Colin Lucas
• 2004 - John Hood
• 2009 - Andrew D. Hamilton
• 2016 - Louise Richardson