List of Deans of Bristol

The Dean of Bristol is the head of the Chapter of the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, Bristol, England. The current Dean is the Very Reverend David Hoyle whose nomination was approved by Queen Elizabeth II on 22 December 2009 and installed at the cathedral on 29 May 2010.^[1]

List of deans of Bristol Cathedral

• 1542–1551: William Snow (previously last prior of Bradenstoke)
• 1551–1552: John Whiteheare, or Whythere
• 1552–1554: George Carew (deprived)
• 1554–1559: Henry Joliffe (deprived)
• 1559–1580: George Carew (restored, also Dean of Exeter 1571–1580)
• 1580–1590: John Sprint
• 1590–1598: Anthony Watson (also Bishop of Chichester 1596–1605)
• 1598–1617: Simon Robson
• 1617–1639: Edward Chetwynd
• 1639–1660: Mathew Nicholas (afterwards Dean of St Paul's, London)
• 1660–1667: Henry Glemham (afterwards Bishop of St Asaph)
• 1667–1683: Richard Towgood
• 1683–1684: Samuel Crossman
• 1684–1685: Richard Thompson
• 1685–1694: William Levett
• 1694–1708: George Royse
• 1708–1730: Hon. Robert Booth
• 1730–1739: Samuel Creswick (afterwards Dean of Wells)
• 1739–1757: Thomas Chamberlayne
• 1757–1760: William Warburton (afterwards Bishop of Gloucester)
• 1760–1761: Samuel Squire (afterwards Bishop of St David's)
• 1761–1763: Francis Ayscough
• 1763–1780: Cutts Barton
• 1763–1799: John Hallam
• 1800–1803: Charles Peter Layard
• 1803–1810: Bowyer Edward Sparke (afterwards Bishop of Chester)
• 1810–1813: John Parsons (afterwards Bishop of Peterborough)
• 1813–1837: Henry Beeke
• May–Oct 1837: Thomas Musgrave (afterwards Bishop of Hereford)
• 1837–1850: John Lamb
• 1850–1891: Gilbert Elliott
• 1891–1916: Francis Pigou (previously Dean of Chichester)
• 1916–1921: St John Basil Wynne Willson (afterwards Bishop of Bath and Wells)
• 1922–1926: Edward Arthur Burroughs (afterwards Bishop of Ripon)
• 1926–1933: Henry Lawe Corry Vully de Candole
• 1934–1951: Harry William Blackburne
• c.1951–1957: Francis Evered Lunt (afterwards suffragan Bishop of Stepney)
• 1957–1972: Douglas Ernest William Harrison
• 1973–1987: Alfred Hounsell Horace Dammers
• 1987–1997: Arthur Wesley Carr (afterwards Dean of Westminster)
• 1997–2009: Robert William Grimley
• 2009–present: David Hoyle

References

• British History — Houses of Augustinian canons
• British History — Deans of Bristol

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