Dean of Carlisle

The Dean of Carlisle is based in Carlisle, UK and is the head of the Chapter of Carlisle Cathedral. There have been 39 previous incumbents^[1] and the current holder of the post is The Very Reverend Mark Boyling^[2].

Deans

• 1542 Lancelot Salkeld, last prior and first dean
• 1560 Sir Thomas Smith
• 1577 Sir John Wooley
• 1596 Christopher Perkins
• 1602 Francis White
• 1626 William Paterson
• 1630 Thomas Comber
• 1660 Guy Carleton
• 1671 Thomas Smith
• 1684 Thomas Musgrave
• 1686 William Graham
• 1704 Francis Atterbury
• 1711 George Smalridge
• 1713 Thomas Gibson
• 1716 Thomas Tullie
• 1727 Sir George Fleming
• 1734 Robert Bolton
• 1764 Charles Tarrent
• 1764 Thomas Wilson
• 1778 Thomas Percy
• 1782 Jeffrey Ekins
• 1792 Isaac Milner
• 1820 Robert Hodgson
• 1838 Samuel Hinds
• 1844–1848 John Antony Cramer
• 1849–1856 Archibald Campbell Tait
• 1856 Francis Close
• 1882–1884 John Oakley
• 1884–1905 William George Henderson
• Charles Ridgeway
• William Barker
• 1917–1924 Hastings Rashdall
• 1988-1998 Henry Edward Champneys Stapleton
• 1999–2003 Graeme Knowles
• 2004–present Mark Boyling

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