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Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge or Oxford. ...
: {, class="wikitable" , - !Name !Portrait !colspan=2, Term of office , - , John Redman , , 1546 , 1551 , - ,
William Bill William Bill (c. 1505 – 15 July 1561) was Master of St John's College, Cambridge (1547–1551?), Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1548) and twice Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (1551–1553, 1558–1561), Provost of Et ...
, , 1551 , 1553 , - , John Christopherson , , 1553 , 1558 , - ,
William Bill William Bill (c. 1505 – 15 July 1561) was Master of St John's College, Cambridge (1547–1551?), Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1548) and twice Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (1551–1553, 1558–1561), Provost of Et ...
, , 1558 , 1561 , - , Robert Beaumont , , 1561 , 1567 , - , John Whitgift , , 1567 , 1577 , - ,
John Still John Still (c. 1543 – 26 February 1607/1608) was Master of two Cambridge colleges and then, from 1593, Bishop of Bath and Wells. He enjoyed considerable fame as an English preacher and disputant. He was formerly reputed to be the author of an ...
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Thomas Nevile Thomas Nevile (died 1615) was an English clergyman and academic who was Dean of Peterborough (1591–1597) and Dean of Canterbury (1597–1615), Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge (1582–1593), and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge ...
, , 1593 , 1615 , - , John Richardson , , 1615 , 1625 , - ,
Leonard Mawe Leonard Maw (sometimes seen as "Mawe" (c. 1552 – 1629, Chiswick) was a Bishop of Bath and Wells and a Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge and Trinity College, Cambridge. Life He was born in Rendlesham, Suffolk, the son of Simon Maw (somet ...
, , 1625 , 1629 , - , Samuel Brooke , , 1629 , 1631 , - , Thomas Comber , , 1631 , 1645 , - , Thomas Hill , , 1645 , 1653 , - , John Arrowsmith , , 1653 , 1659 , - , John Wilkins , , 1659 , 1660 , - , Henry Ferne , , 1660 , 1662 , - , John Pearson , , 1662 , 1672 , - , Isaac Barrow , , 1672 , 1677 , - , John North , , 1677 , 1683 , - , John Montagu , , 1683 , 1699 , - , Richard Bentley , , 1700 , 1742 , - , Robert Smith , , 1742 , 1768 , - , John Hinchliffe
(also Bishop of Peterborough from 1769) , , 1768 , 1789 , - ,
Thomas Postlethwaite Thomas Postlethwaite (1731 – 4 May 1798) was an English clergyman and Cambridge fellow, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1789 to 1798. Biography Thomas Postlethwaite was the son of Richard Postlethwaite of Crooklands, near Mil ...
, , 1789 , 1798 , - , William Lort Mansel
(also
Bishop of Bristol A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ...
from 1808) , , 1798 , 1820 , - ,
Christopher Wordsworth Christopher Wordsworth (30 October 180720 March 1885) was an English intellectual and a bishop of the Anglican Church. Life Wordsworth was born in London, the youngest son of Christopher Wordsworth, Master of Trinity, who was the youngest b ...
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William Whewell William Whewell ( ; 24 May 17946 March 1866) was an English polymath, scientist, Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian, and historian of science. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. In his time as a student there, he achieved ...
, , 1841 , 1866 , - , William Hepworth Thompson , , 1866 , 1886 , - ,
Henry Montagu Butler Henry Montagu Butler (2 July 1833 – 14 January 1918) was an English academic and clergyman, who served as headmaster of Harrow School (1860–85), Dean of Gloucester (1885–86) and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (1886–1918). Early ...
, , 1886 , 1918 , - , Sir
Joseph John Thomson Sir Joseph John Thomson (18 December 1856 – 30 August 1940) was a British physicist and Nobel Laureate in Physics, credited with the discovery of the electron, the first subatomic particle to be discovered. In 1897, Thomson showed that ...
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George Macaulay Trevelyan George Macaulay Trevelyan (16 February 1876 – 21 July 1962) was a British historian and academic. He was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1898 to 1903. He then spent more than twenty years as a full-time author. He returned to the ...
, , 1940 , 1951 , - , The Lord Adrian , , 1951 , 1965 , - , The Lord Butler of Saffron Walden , , 1965 , 1978 , - , Sir
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (5 February 1914 – 20 December 1998) was an English physiologist and biophysicist who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Andrew Huxley and John Eccles. Early life and education Hodgkin was ...
, , 1978 , 1984 , - , Sir
Andrew Huxley Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley (22 November 191730 May 2012) was an English physiologist and biophysicist. He was born into the prominent Huxley family. After leaving Westminster School in central London, he went to Trinity College, Cambridge ...
, , 1984 , 1990 , - , Sir
Michael Atiyah Sir Michael Francis Atiyah (; 22 April 1929 – 11 January 2019) was a British-Lebanese mathematician specialising in geometry. His contributions include the Atiyah–Singer index theorem and co-founding topological K-theory. He was awarded th ...
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Amartya Sen Amartya Kumar Sen (; born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher, who since 1972 has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States. Sen has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, econom ...
, , 1998 , 2004 , - , The Lord Rees of Ludlow , , 2004 , June 2012 , - , Sir Gregory Winter , , October 2012 , July 2019 , - , Professor Dame Sally Davies , , October 2019 , ''Present Master'' Masters
Trinity The Christian doctrine of the Trinity (, from 'threefold') is the central dogma concerning the nature of God in most Christian churches, which defines one God existing in three coequal, coeternal, consubstantial divine persons: God th ...
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