The Dean of Gloucester is the head (''primus inter pares'': first among equals) and chair of the chapter of canons - the ruling body of

Gloucester Cathedral Gloucester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of St Peter and the Holy and Indivisible Trinity, in Gloucester, England, stands in the north of the city near the River Severn. It originated with the establishment of a minster dedicated to S ...

- and senior priest of the Diocese of Gloucester. The dean and chapter are based at

. The cathedral is the mother church of the Diocese of Gloucester and seat of the Bishop of Gloucester.

List of deans

Early modern

*1541–1565 William Jennings *1565–1569 John Man *1569–1570 Thomas Cooper *1571–1580 Lawrence Humphrey *1580–1585 ''Vacancy'' *1585–1594 Anthony Rudd *1594–1607

Griffith Lewis Griffith Lewis was Dean of Gloucester from 1594 until his death in early June 1607: he was buried at Hereford Cathedral Hereford Cathedral is the cathedral church of the Anglican Diocese of Hereford in Hereford, England. A place of worship h ...

*1607–1609 Thomas Moreton *1609–1616 Richard Field *1616–1621 William Laud *1621–1624

Richard Senhouse Richard Senhouse (died 1626) was an English churchman, Bishop of Carlisle from 1624 to 1626. Life He was third son of John Senhouse (d. 1604) of Netherhall, Cumberland (now part of Maryport), by Anne, daughter of John Ponsonby of Hail Hall and t ...

*1624–1631

Thomas Winniffe Thomas Winniffe (1576–1654) was an English churchman, the Bishop of Lincoln from 1642 to 1646. Early life He was born and baptised at Sherborne, Dorset, in 1576, the son of John Winniffe (1540?-1630), who was buried on 28 September 1630 in Lamb ...

*1631–1631 George Warburton *1631–1643

Accepted Frewen Accepted Frewen (baptized 26 May 158828 March 1664) was a priest in the Church of England and Archbishop of York from 1660 to 1664. Life Frewen was born at Northiam, in Sussex, the son of John Frewen who was the rector there. The unusual foren ...

*1643–1671 William Brough *1671–1673 Thomas Vyner *1673–1681

Robert Frampton Robert Frampton (26 February 1622 – 25 May 1708) was Bishop of Gloucester in England from 1681 to 1691 and later a Non-juror. Life Frampton was born in Dorset in February 1622, to Robert and Elizabeth Frampton. He studied at Corpus Christi C ...

*1681–1685 Thomas Marshall *1685–1707 William Jane *1707–1720 Knightly Chetwood *1720–1723 John Waugh *1723–1729 John Frankland *1729–1730 Peter Allix *1730–1758 Daniel Newcombe *1758–1799 Josiah Tucker

Late modern

*1800–1808 John Luxmoore *1808–1825 John Plumptre *1825–1862 Edward Rice *1862–1884 Henry Law *1885–1885 Edward Bickersteth *1885–?1887 Montagu Butler *1887–1917 Donald Spence (Spence-Jones after 1904) *1917–1938

Henry Gee Henry Ernest Gee (born 24 April 1962 in London, England) is a British people, British Paleontology, paleontologist, Evolutionary biology, evolutionary biologist and senior editor of the scientific journal ''Nature (journal), Nature''. Early ...

*1938–1953

Harold Costley-White Harold Costley-White (9 November 1878 – 5 April 1966) was an Anglican dean and author in the mid-20th century. He was educated at Malvern and Balliol and ordained in 1902. He was an Assistant Master at Sherborne and Rugby. From 1910 to 1 ...

*1953–1972

Seiriol Evans Seiriol John Arthur Evans, CBE (22 November 1894 – 29 June 1984) was an Anglican dean and author in the third quarter of the 20th century.Born into an ecclesiastical family, he was educated at King's College School, Cambridge, then The King's S ...

*1973–1982 Gilbert Thurlow *1983–1996 Kenneth Jennings *1997–2010

Nicholas Bury Nicholas Ayles Stillingfleet Bury is an Anglican priest: he was Dean of Gloucester from 1997 until 2010. Born on 8 January 1943, he was educated at The King's School, Canterbury and Queens' College, Cambridge, trained for the ministry at Ripon C ...

*2011–2022

Stephen Lake Stephen Lake (born December 1963) is an Anglican clergyman and author who has been Bishop of Salisbury since April 2022; he was previously Dean of Gloucester from June 2011. After a curacy at Sherborne Abbey he was priest in charge at St ...

(became Bishop of Salisbury)

Sources

* :s:Page:Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae Vol.1 body of work.djvu/485 * :s:Page:Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae Vol.1 body of work.djvu/486 * :s:Page:Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae Vol.1 body of work.djvu/487 *http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=35315#s1

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