The Dean of Windsor is the spiritual head of the canons of St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle,

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. The dean chairs meetings of the Chapter of Canons as ''primus inter pares''. The post of Dean of Wolverhampton 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 *1349

William Mugge William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of ...

*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 *1471 John Davyson *1473 William Dudley *1476 Peter Courtenay *1478 Richard Beauchamp *1481 Thomas Danett *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, Ursu ...

*1485 John Davyson *1485 John Morgan *1496 Christopher Urswick

Early modern

*1505 Christopher Bainbridge *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 lias Harman*1519 John Clerk *1523 Richard Sampson *1536 William Franklyn *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 *1558 John Boxall (deprived) *1560 George Carew *1572 William Day *1596 Robert Bennet *1603

Giles Thomson Giles Thomson (Tomson, Thompson) (1553–1612) was an English academic and bishop. Life He was born in London, and educated at Merchant Taylors' School, and to University College, Oxford where he matriculated in 1571. He became a Fellow of All ...

*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 Wes ...

*1618 Marco Antonio de Dominis *1622 Henry Beaumont *1627 Matthew Wren *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 church ...

*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 *1683 Francis Turner *1684

Gregory Hascard Gregory Hascard DD (died 15 November 1708) was a Canon of Windsor from 1671 to 1684 and then Dean of Windsor from 1684 until 1708, but he was also a noted pluralist. He wrote three books on religious subjects. Life Born in Grantham, the son of ...

*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 *Joh ...

*1714 The Lord Willoughby de Broke *1729 Peniston Booth *1765 The Hon Frederick Keppel *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 G ...

Late modern

*1805–1816 Edward Legge *1816–1846 Henry Hobart *1846–1854 George Neville-Grenville *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' ...

*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 Reformation, and the f ...

*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&n ...

*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 Dea ...

*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

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