A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 3, the City and University of Cambridge. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1959.
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CHANCELLORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE (fn. 1)
c. 1246 | Hugh de Hotton. (fn. 2) | |
1256 | Reginald Gerninghall. | |
1257 | Stephen Hepworth. | |
1259 | William de Ludham. | |
1260 | Richard de Gedney. | |
1261 | Richard Dryfield. | |
1267 | John de Asgarby. | |
1270–5 | John Hooke. | |
1276 | Roger de Fulbourn. | |
1283 | Andrew de Gisleham. | |
1286 | Thomas Sheringham. | |
1287 | Stephen Hepworth (recurs). | |
1289–90 | Ralph de Leicester. | |
1290–2 | Geoffrey de Pakenham. | |
1293–5 | Henry de Boyton. | |
1295–6 | John de Bradenham. | |
1296–9 | Thomas de Sheringham (recurs). | |
1299 | Stephen Hepworth (recurs). | |
1300–3 | Stephen Haslingfield. | |
1303–7 | Stephen de Segrave, later Archbishop of Armagh. (fn. 3) | |
1307 | Stephen Haslingfield (recurs). | |
1315 | Richard de Ashton. | |
1321–6 | Roger Northburgh, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry. | |
1326–9 | Richard de Badew. | |
1329–31 | Thomas de Foxton. | |
c. 1330 (fn. 4) | Robert de Winwick. | |
1331–4 | John de Langley. | |
1334–5 | Robert Mildenhall. | |
1335–7 | Henry de Herwarden. | |
1337–9 | Richard Harling (or Ling). | |
1340 | Robert de Claydon. | |
1341 | Thomas de Northwood. | |
1344 | Thomas de Northwood (recurs). | |
1346–8 | John de Crakhall. (fn. 5) | |
1348 | Thomas de Grantchester. | |
1348 | William de Lymbergh. | |
1349–51 | Richard de Wetherset (or Hetherset, Wetheringsett; alias de Cantabrigia). | |
1351 | Richard Harling (recurs). | |
1352 | Anthony de Grantchester. | |
1352–9 | William Tynkell. | |
1359–60 | Thomas Sutton. | |
1360–1 | Richard de Wetherset (recurs). | |
1361–2 | Michael de Haynton. | |
1361–6 | Michael de Causton. | |
1366–9 | William de Gotham. | |
1369 | Thomas de Stewkley, Abbot of Colchester. | |
1371 | John de Donwich. | |
1373–4 | Adam de Lakenheath. | |
1374 | John de Donwich (recurs). | |
1376 | William de Gotham (recurs). | |
1378–9 | Richard Scrope, later Archbishop of York. | |
1380 | Eudo (or Guy) Zouche. | |
1380–1 | John Cavendish. | |
1382 | Guy Zouche (recurs). | |
1382–3 | John de Bromyard. | |
1383 | John de Neketon. | |
1384 | John de Burgh (or Borough). | |
1385 | Thomas Hetherset (or de Hethersett). | |
1386 | John de Burgh (recurs). | |
1388 | William Colvile, Abbot of Canterbury. | |
1390–1 | Richard Dereham. | |
1391 | William Colvile (recurs). | |
1392 | John de Neketon (recurs). | |
1394 | William Colvile (recurs). | |
1396 | Guy Zouche (recurs). | |
1400–2 | Richard Billingford. | |
1404–8 | Richard Dereham (recurs). | |
1409–13 | Richard Billingford (recurs). (fn. 6) | |
1414 | Stephen le Scrope. | |
1415–22 | John de Rickingale, later Bishop of Chichester. | |
1422–3 | Thomas de Cobham. | |
1424–6 | Robert Fitzhugh, later Bishop of London. | |
1426 | William Wymbell. | |
1427 | Marmaduke Lumley, later Bishop of Carlisle and Bishop of Lincoln. | |
1429–30 | John Holbroke. | |
1431–2 | William Lascells. | |
1432 | Richard Billingford (recurs). | |
1433–5 | Richard Cawdray. | |
1436–45 | John Langton, later Bishop of St. David's. | |
1445–6 | Nicholas Kenton. | |
1447 | John Langton (recurs). | |
1448 | Robert Ascogh. | |
1450–1 | Nicholas Close, Bishop of Carlisle and later Bishop of Lichfield. | |
1451–6 | William Percy, Bishop of Carlisle. | |
1456–8 | Laurence Booth, Bishop of Durham and later Archbishop of York. | |
1458 | William Wilflete (or Wolflet). | |
1459–60 | Robert Woodlark. | |
1461 | Richard Scroope, later Bishop of Carlisle. | |
1462–3 | Robert Woodlark (recurs). | |
1463–4 | John Booth, later Bishop of Exeter. | |
1464 | William Wilflete (recurs). | |
1465–8 | John Harrison (or Herrison). | |
1466 | William Wilflete (recurs). | |
1468–9 | Edward Story, Bishop of Carlisle and later Bishop of Chichester. | |
1469–71 | Thomas Rotherham (or Scot), Bishop of Rochester and later Bishop of Lincoln and Archbishop of York. (fn. 7) | |
1471–2 | Edward Story (recurs). | |
1473–9 | Thomas Rotherham (recurs). | |
1479–83 | John Boynton. | |
1483–5 | Thomas Rotherham (recurs). (fn. 8) | |
1490 | Thomas Cosyn. | |
1494–6 | John Blythe, Bishop of Salisbury. | |
1496–9 | George Fitzhugh. | |
1499–1500 | Thomas Rotherham (recurs). | |
1500 | Richard Fox, Bishop of Durham and later Bishop of Winchester. | |
1502 | George Fitzhugh (recurs). | |
1503 | Thomas Ruthall (or Rowthall), later Bishop of Durham. | |
1504–35 | John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester. | |
1535–40 | Thomas Cromwell, later Earl of Essex. | |
1540–7 | Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester. | |
1547–52 | Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset. | |
1552–3 | John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland. | |
1553–5 | Stephen Gardiner (re-elected). | |
1556–8 | Reginald Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury. | |
1559–98 | William Cecil, Lord Burghley. | |
1598–1601 | Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex. | |
1601–12 | Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury. | |
1612–14 | Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton. | |
1614–26 | Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffolk. | |
1626–8 | George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. | |
1628–49 | Henry Rich, Earl of Holland. | |
1649–51 | Edward Montagu, Earl of Manchester. | |
1651–60 | Oliver St. John. | |
1660–71 | Edward Montagu, Earl of Manchester (restored). | |
1671–4 | George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. | |
1674–82 | James Scott, Duke of Monmouth. | |
1682–8 | Christopher Monk, Duke of Albemarle. | |
1689–1748 | Charles Seymour, Duke of Somerset. | |
1748–68 | Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle. | |
1768–1811 | Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton. | |
1811–34 | William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester. | |
1834–40 | John Jeffreys Pratt, Marquis Camden. | |
1840–7 | Hugh Percy, Duke of Northumberland. | |
1847–61 | Prince Albert, the Prince Consort. | |
1861–91 | William Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire. | |
1892–1908 | Spencer Compton Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire. | |
1908–19 | John William Strutt, Baron Rayleigh. | |
1919–30 | Arthur James Balfour, Earl of Balfour. | |
1930–47 | Stanley Baldwin, Earl Baldwin of Bewdley. | |
1948–50 | Jan Christian Smuts. | |
1950– | Arthur William Tedder, Baron Tedder. |