Dean of Worcester

Early modern

• 1541–1544 Henry Holbeach (last prior)
• 1544–1553 John Barlow
• 1553–1557 Philip Hawford
• 1557–1559 Seth Holland
• 1559–1571 John Pedder
• 1571–1586 Thomas Wilson
• 1586–1597 Francis Willis
• 1597–1604 Richard Edes
• 1604–1608 James Montague
• 1608–1616 Arthur Lake
• 1616–1627 Joseph Hall
• 1627–1633 William Juxon
• 1633–1636 Roger Maynwaring
• 1636–1646 Christopher Potter
• 1646–1649 Richard Holdsworth
• 1649–1660 No dean during the Interregnum
• 1660–1661 John Oliver
• 1661–1665 Thomas Warmestry
• 1665–1683 William Thomas
• 1683–1691 George Hickes
• 1691–1715 William Talbot
• 1715–1726 Francis Hare
• 1726–1746 James Stillingfleet
• 1746–1751 Edmund Marten

• 1751–1765 John Waugh
• 1765–1769 Sir Richard Wrottesley
• 1769–1778 William Digby
• 1778–1783 Robert Foley
• 1783–1795 St Andrew St John (son of Lord St John of Bletso)

Late modern

• 1795–1817 Arthur Onslow
• 1817–1825 John Jenkinson
• 1825–1828 James Hook
• 1828–1845 George Murray, Bishop of Rochester
• 1845–1874 John Peel
• 1874–1879 Hon Grantham Yorke
• 1879–1886 Lord Alwyne Compton
• 1886–1891 John Gott
• 1891–1908 Robert Forrest
• 1908–1934 William Moore Ede
• 1934–1949 Arthur Davies
• 1949–1957 William Beck
• 1957–1968 Bobby Milburn
• 1969–1974 Eric Kemp
• 1975–1986 Tom Baker
• 1987–1996 Robert Jeffery
• 1996–2006 Peter Marshall
• 2006–present Peter Atkinson