List of Deans of Durham

This is a list of deans of Durham Cathedral, England.

• 1541–1551 Hugh Whitehead, first dean.
• 1551–1553 Robert Horne
• 1553–1558 Thomas Watson
• 1558–1559 Thomas Robertson
• 1559–1561 Robert Horne (again).
• 1561–1563 Ralph Skinner
• 1563–1579 William Whittingham
• 1580–1581 Thomas Wilson
• 1583–1595 Tobias Matthew
• 1596–1606 William James
• 1606–1620 Adam Newton
• 1620–1638 Richard Hunt
• 1639–1645 Walter Balcanquall
• 1646 Christopher Potter
• 1646–1659 William Fuller
• 1660–1661 John Barwick
• 1661–1684 John Sudbury
• 1684–1690 Denis Granville
• 1691–1699 Thomas Comber
• 1700–1728 John Montague
• 1728–1746 Henry Bland
• 1746–1774 Spencer Cowper
• 1774–1777 Thomas Dampier
• 1777–1788 William Digby
• 1788–1794 John Hinchliffe
• 1794–1824 James Cornwallis
• 1824–1827 Charles Henry Hall
• 1827–1840 John Jenkinson
• 1840–1869 George Waddington
• 1869-1894 William Charles Lake
• 1894-1912 George William Kitchin
• 1912–1918 Herbert Hensley Henson
• 1918-1933 James Edward Cowell Welldon
• 1933–1951 Cyril Argentine Alington
• 1951-1974 John Herbert Severn Wild
• 1974–1979 Eric William Heaton
• 1980-1988 Peter Richard Baelz^[1]
• 1989–2002 John Robert Arnold
• 2003-present Michael Sadgrove

References

• http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=35853

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