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The Dean of Windsor is the spiritual head of the
canons of
St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle
St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in England is a castle chapel built in the late-medieval Perpendicular Gothic style. It is both a Royal Peculiar (a church under the direct jurisdiction of the monarch) and the Chapel of the Order of the Gart ...
,
England
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. The dean chairs meetings of the Chapter of Canons as ''primus inter pares''. The post of
Dean of Wolverhampton
The Dean of Wolverhampton was the head of the chapter of Canons at St. Peter's Collegiate Church, Wolverhampton until the chapter was disestablished in 1846. The collegiate church was, until that point, a Royal Peculiar falling outside of the dio ...
was assimilated to the deanery of Windsor, around 1480, until 1846.
''Victoria County History – Staffordshire''; Vol. 3, no. 44:
M. W. Greenslade, R. B. Pugh (editors), (1970): Victoria County History: A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 3, no. 44, Colleges: Wolverhampton, St Peter.
List of deans
Late medieval
*1348 John de la Chambre
John is a common English name and surname:
* John (given name)
* John (surname)
John may also refer to:
New Testament
Works
* Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John
* First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John
* Second E ...
*1349 William Mugge
*1381 Walter Almaly
*1389 Thomas Butiller
*1402 Richard Kingston
Richard Kingston (1635? – 1710?) was an English political pamphleteer, clerical impostor, and spy.
Life
He was born about 1635. According to his own statements he was a M.A., and was ordained by the Bishop of Galloway, 17 July 1662, at Westmin ...
*1419 John Arundel
*1454 Thomas Manning
*1461 John Faulkes (Vaux)
*1471 William Morland William Morland (1739–1815) was an English banker and politician, Member of Parliament for from 1796 to 1806.
Life
Morland formed a bank in 1786 with Griffin Ransom II and Thomas Hammersley; it had London premises at 57 Pall Mall, and traded as ...
*1471 John Davyson
*1473 William Dudley
*1476 Peter Courtenay
Peter Courtenay ( – 23 September 1492) was Bishop of Exeter (1478–87) and Bishop of Winchester (1487-92), and also had a successful political career during the tumultuous years of the Wars of the Roses.
Origins
Courtenay was the third so ...
*1478 Richard Beauchamp
*1481 Thomas Danett
Thomas Danett (also spelt Danette; died 19 September 1483) was a Dean of Windsor from 1481 to 1483.
Career
He was appointed:
*Principal of St Alban Hall, Oxford 1468–1477
*Prebendary of Henfield in Chichester 1472
*Rector of Brixton Deverill, ...
*1483 William Beverley
William Beverley (1696–1756) was an 18th-century legislator, civil servant, planter and landowner in the Colony of Virginia. Born in Virginia, Beverley—the son of planter and historian Robert Beverley, Jr. (c. 1667–1722) and his wife, Ursul ...
*1485 John Davyson
*1485 John Morgan
*1496 Christopher Urswick
Christopher Urswick (1448–1522) was a priest and confessor of Margaret Beaufort. He was Rector of Puttenham, Hertfordshire, and later Dean of Windsor. Urswick is thought to have acted as a go-between in the plotting to place her son Henry VII of ...
Early modern
*1505 Christopher Bainbridge
Christopher Bainbridge ( 1462/1464 – 14 July 1514) was an English Cardinal of the Catholic Church. Of Westmorland origins, he was a nephew of Bishop Thomas Langton of Winchester, represented the continuation of Langton's influence and teaching ...
*1507 Thomas Hobbs
*1509 Nicholas West
Nicholas West (146128 April 1533), was an English bishop and diplomatist, born at Putney in Surrey, and educated at Eton and at King's College, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow in 1486. He also had periods of study at Oxford and Bologna.
*1515 John Vesey
John Vesey or Veysey ( – 23 October 1554) was Bishop of Exeter from 1519 until his death in 1554, having been briefly deposed 1551–3 by King Edward VI for his opposition to the Reformation.
Origins
He was born (as "John Harman"), probabl ...
lias Harman*1519 John Clerk
*1523 Richard Sampson
Richard Sampson (died 25 September 1554) was an English clergyman and composer of sacred music, who was Anglican bishop of Chichester and subsequently of Coventry and Lichfield.
Biography
He was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, the Paris So ...
*1536 William Franklyn
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*1553 Owen Oglethorpe
Owen Oglethorpe ( – 31 December 1559) was an English academic and Roman Catholic Bishop of Carlisle, 1557–1559.
Childhood and Education
Oglethorpe was born in Tadcaster, Yorkshire, England (where he later founded a school), the third son ...
*1556 Hugh Weston
Hugh Weston ( – 1558) was an English churchman and academic, Dean of Westminster and Dean of Windsor, and Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford.
Life
He was born at Burton-Overy, Leicestershire, about 1505, and educated at Balliol College, Oxford, ...
*1558 John Boxall
John Boxall (died 1571) was an English churchman and secretary of state to Mary I of England.
Catholic statesman
He was a native of Bramshott in Hampshire. After studying at Winchester School he was admitted a perpetual fellow of New College, ...
(deprived)
*1560 George Carew
*1572 William Day
*1596 Robert Bennet
*1603 Giles Thomson
*1612 Anthony Maxey
Anthony Maxey (died 3 May 1618), was the Dean of Windsor.
Life
Maxey was, according to the ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', probably from the Maxey family of Bradwell Juxta Coggeshall in Essex. He was educated on the foundation at West ...
*1618 Marco Antonio de Dominis
Marco Antonio de Dominis ( hr, Markantun de Dominis; 1560September 1624) was a Dalmatian ecclesiastic, archbishop of Split and Primate of Dalmatia and all Croatia, adjudged heretic of the Catholic faith, and man of science.
Early life
He was ...
*1622 Henry Beaumont
*1627 Matthew Wren
Matthew Wren (3 December 1585 – 24 April 1667) was an influential English clergyman, bishop and scholar.
Life
He was the eldest son of Francis Wren (born 18 January 1552 at Newbold Revell), citizen and mercer of London, only son of Cuth ...
*1635 Christopher Wren
Sir Christopher Wren PRS FRS (; – ) was one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history, as well as an anatomist, astronomer, geometer, and mathematician-physicist. He was accorded responsibility for rebuilding 52 churches ...
*1659 Edward Hyde ot installed*1660 Bruno Ryves
Bruno Ryves (1596–1677) was an English royalist churchman, editor in 1643 of the Oxford newsbook ''Mercurius Rusticus'', and later dean of Chichester and dean of Windsor. His first name was variously spelt Brune, Bruen, Brian, Bruno, and his su ...
*1677 John Durell
John Durel (1625–1683), John Durell, or Jean Durel, was a cleric from Jersey, known for his apologetical writing on behalf of the Church of England. He became Dean of Windsor in 1677. His French translation of the 1662 ''Book of Common Prayer'' ...
*1683 Francis Turner
*1684 Gregory Hascard
Gregory Hascard Doctor of Divinity, DD (died 15 November 1708) was a Dean and Canons of Windsor, Canon of Windsor from 1671 to 1684 and then Dean of Windsor from 1684 until 1708, but he was also a noted Benefice#Pluralism, pluralist. He
wrote thre ...
*1709 Thomas Manningham
Thomas Manningham (1651?-1722) was an English churchman, bishop of Chichester from 1709.
Life
He was born about 1651 in the parish of St. George, Southwark, the son of Richard Manningham (d. 1682), rector of Michelmersh, Hampshire, and grandso ...
*1709 John Robinson John Robinson may refer to:
Academics
*John Thomas Romney Robinson (1792–1882), Irish astronomer and physicist
* John J. Robinson (1918–1996), historian and author of ''Born in Blood''
*John Talbot Robinson (1923–2001), paleontologist
*John ...
*1714 The Lord Willoughby de Broke
*1729 Peniston Booth
Dr Penyston Booth, (1681 – 21 September 1765), also Peniston Booth, was an 18th-century Anglican priest, who hailed from the minor gentry, and served as Dean of Windsor from 1729 to 1765.
Family
Born at Lusby, Lincolnshire, he was the s ...
*1765 The Hon Frederick Keppel
Frederick Keppel (19 January 1728 – 27 December 1777) was a Church of England clergyman, Bishop of Exeter.
Background
Keppel was the fifth and fourth surviving son of Willem van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle and his wife Lady Anne Lenno ...
*1778 The Hon John Harley
*1788 John Douglas
*1791 The Hon James Cornwallis
*1794 Charles Manners-Sutton
Charles Manners-Sutton (17 February 1755 – 21 July 1828; called Charles Manners before 1762) was a bishop in the Church of England who served as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1805 to 1828.
Life
Manners-Sutton was the fourth son of Lord Ge ...
Late modern
*1805–1816 Edward Legge
*1816–1846 Henry Hobart
*1846–1854 George Neville-Grenville
George Neville-Grenville (17 August 1789 – 10 June 1854), named George Neville until 1825,''Burke's Peerage 2003'', page 490 was Dean of Windsor in the mid nineteenth century.
Early life
Neville was born a younger son of the Hon Richard Grif ...
*1854–1882 Gerald Wellesley
Gerald Valerian Wellesley (1809 – 17 September 1882) was a Church of England cleric who became the Dean of Windsor. More importantly, he was domestic chaplain to Queen Victoria and played a major advisory role regarding the royal family's ...
*1882–1884 George Connor
*1884–1891 Randall Davidson
Randall Thomas Davidson, 1st Baron Davidson of Lambeth, (7 April 1848 – 25 May 1930) was an Anglican priest who was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1903 to 1928. He was the longest-serving holder of the office since the English Reformation, Re ...
*1891–1917 Philip Eliot
*1917–1944 Albert Baillie
Albert Victor Baillie KCVO, DD (5 August 1864 – 3 November 1955) was a Church of England clergyman during the first half of the 20th century, ending his career as Dean of Windsor. He was the Registrar of the Order of the Garter (1917&nd ...
*1944–1962 Eric Hamilton
*1962–1971 Robin Woods
Robert Wilmer Woods, (14 February 1914 – 20 October 1997), known as Robin Woods, was an English Anglican bishop. He was the Bishop of Worcester from 1971 to 1982. He previously served as Archdeacon of Sheffield from 1958 to 1962, and as D ...
*1971–1976 Launcelot Fleming
William Launcelot Scott Fleming (7 August 1906 – 30 July 1990) was a British Anglican bishop. He was the Bishop of Portsmouth and later the Bishop of Norwich. He was also noted as a geologist and explorer.
Childhood
Fleming was born in Edi ...
*1976–1989 Michael Mann
Michael Kenneth Mann (born February 5, 1943) is an American director, screenwriter, and producer of film and television who is best known for his distinctive style of crime drama. His most acclaimed works include the films ''Thief'' (1981), ' ...
*1989–1997 Patrick Mitchell
*1998–present David Conner
See also
*Dean and Canons of Windsor
The Dean and Canons of Windsor are the ecclesiastical body of St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.
Foundation
The college of canons was established in 1348 by Letters Patent of King Edward III. It was formally constituted on the feast of ...
References
Sources
*''Fasti Wyndesorienses: The deans and canons of Windsor.'' Volume 8. Sidney Leslie Ollard (1950)
British History Online – A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 2 – Deans of Windsor
Windsor Castle
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