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of Peterborough is the head of the chapter at

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. On the Dissolution of

Peterborough Abbey Peterborough Cathedral, properly the Cathedral Church of St Peter, St Paul and St Andrew – also known as Saint Peter's Cathedral in the United Kingdom – is the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Peterborough, dedicated to Saint Peter, Saint Pau ...

in 1539 and the abbey-church's refoundation as a cathedral for the new

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and

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, care for the abbey/cathedral church passed from an abbot to a dean. The current Dean of Peterborough is Chris Dalliston

List of deans

Early modern

*1541–1542 Francis Leycester :(last prior of St Andrew's Priory, Northampton) *1543–1549 Gerard Carleton *1549–1557 James Curthoppe *1557–1559

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) *1560–1583

William Latymer William Latymer or Latimer (1499–1583) was an English evangelical clergyman, Dean of Peterborough from 1560. He was chaplain to Anne Boleyn, and is best known for his biography of her, the ''Chronickille of Anne Bulleyne''. Life He was the thir ...

*1583–1589 Richard Fletcher *1590–1597

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 ...

*1597–1607

John Palmer John Palmer may refer to: People Politicians * John Palmer (fl. 1377–1394), English politician * Sir John Palmer, 5th Baronet (1735–1817), British politician * John Palmer (1785–1840), U.S. congressman from New York * John Palmer (1842–19 ...

*1607–1612 Richard Clayton *1612–1617 George Meriton *1617–1622 Henry Beaumont (later

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) *1622–1630 William Piers *1630–1639 John Towers *1639–1640 Thomas Jackson *1640–1660

John Cosin John Cosin (30 November 1594 – 15 January 1672) was an English churchman. Life He was born at Norwich, and was educated at Norwich School and at Caius College, Cambridge, where he was scholar and afterwards fellow. On taking orders he was a ...

*1661–1664 Edward Rainbowe *1664–1679

James Duport James Duport (; 1606, Cambridge17 July 1679, Peterborough) was an English classical scholar. Life His father, John Duport, who was descended from an old Norman family (the Du Ports of Caen, who settled in Leicestershire during the reign of Henr ...

*1679–1689

Simon Patrick Simon Patrick (8 September 1626 – 31 May 1707) was an English theologian and bishop. Life He was born at Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, eldest son of Henry Patrick, a wealthy merchant, on 8 September 1626, and attended Boston Gramma ...

*1689–1691 Richard Kidder *1691–1707 Samuel Freeman *1707–1718

White Kennett White Kennett (10 August 166019 December 1728) was an English bishop and antiquarian. He was educated at Westminster School and at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where, while an undergraduate, he published several translations of Latin works, including ...

*1718–1721 Richard Reynolds *1721–1722 Edward Gee *1722–1725

John Mandeville Sir John Mandeville is the supposed author of ''The Travels of Sir John Mandeville'', a travel memoir which first circulated between 1357 and 1371. The earliest-surviving text is in French. By aid of translations into many other languages, the ...

*1725–1740 Francis Lockier *1740–1744 John Thomas *1744–1764 Robert Lamb *1764–1791 Charles Tarrant *1791–1792

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 ...

*1792–1797

Peter Peckard Peter Peckard (c. 1718 – 8 December 1797) was an English Whig, Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, Church of England minister and abolitionist.

Late modern

*1797–1822 Thomas Kipling *1822–1830

James Henry Monk James Henry Monk (12 December 1784 – 6 June 1856) was an English divine and classical scholar. Life He was born at Buntingford, Hertfordshire. He was educated at Norwich School, Charterhouse School and Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 1 ...

*1830–1842 Thomas Turton *1842–1853 George Butler *1853–1878 Augustus Saunders (previously Headmaster of Charterhouse School) *1878–1890 John Perowne *1891–1892 Marsham Argles *1893–1901 William Ingram *1901–1908 William Barlow *1908–1928 Arnold Page *1928–1942 James Simpson *1943–1965 Noel Christopherson *1966–1980 Dick Wingfield-Digby *1981–1992 Randolph Wise *1992–31 March 2006 Michael Bunker *2006–2 October 2016 (ret.) Charles Taylor *2 October 20169 October 2017 Jonathan Baker (Acting)Peterborough Cathedral — Clergy, Chapter & Staff
(Accessed 10 December 2017) *2017: Tim Sledge (dean-designate only: announced 27 August 2017, but withdrew his nomination due to personal health reasons) *9 October 201720 January 2018 Tim Alban Jones (Acting) *20 January 2018presentPeterborough Cathedral — The new Dean of Peterborough announced today
(Accessed 29 November 2017) Chris Dalliston

Notes

References

Sources

British History Online – Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857 – Deans of PeterboroughPeterborough City Council – Peterborough abbey (Peterborough Cathedral)

British History Online – Houses of Benedictine monks: The abbey of Peterborough – A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 2 (1906)
pp. 83–95. Accessed 29 May 2007. {{Deans in the Church of England

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