The following is a list of rectors of

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Rectors of Exeter College

1318–1566

1566–1887

*John Neale (

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1566 – deprived 12 October 1570) * Robert Newton (31 October 1570 – resigned 4 October 1578 (see above)) *Thomas Glasier (21 October 1578 – d. 9 March 1592) * Thomas Holland (24 April 1592 – d. 17 March 1612) *

John Prideaux John Prideaux (7 September 1578 – 29 July 1650) was an English academic and Bishop of Worcester. Early life The fourth son of John and Agnes Prideaux, he was born at Stowford House in the parish of Harford, near Ivybridge, Devon, England, ...

(4 April 1612 – resigned 3 August 1642) *

George Hakewill George Hakewill (1578 or 1579 – 1649) was an English clergyman and author. Early life Born in Exeter, he studied at Alban Hall, University of Oxford, where he was a noted disputant and orator and in June 1596, only a year after his mat ...

(23 August 1642 – d. 2 April 1649) *

John Conant Rev. John Conant D.D. (18 October 1608 – 12 March 1694) was an English clergyman and theologian. He was Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, and later archdeacon of Norwich. Life Conant was born at Yettington, Bicton, in the south-east ...

(7 June 1649 – deprived 1 September 1662) *Joseph Maynard (18 September 1662 – resigned 30 April 1666) *

Arthur Bury Arthur Bury, D.D. (1624-1714?) was an English college head and Anglican theologian of controversial views. His 1690 antitrinitarian work, ''The Naked Gospel'', first published anonymously, was commanded to be burnt at Oxford, and, in a complex seq ...

(27 May 1666 – deprived 26 July 1690) * William Paynter (15 August 1690 –d. 18 February 1716) *Mathew Hole (8 March 1716 – d. 19 July 1730) * John Conybeare (6 August 1730 – resigned 29 January 1733) *Joseph Atwell (17 February 1733 – resigned 3 March 1737) *James Edgcumbe (11 April 1737 – d. 16 May 1750) *Francis Webber (5 June 1750 – d. 29 September 1771) *Thomas Bray (22 October 1771 – d. 28 March 1785) *Thomas Stinton (15 April 1785 – d. 6 July 1787) * Henry Richards (23 July 1797 – d. 19 December 1807) * John Cole (7 January 1808 – d. 13 October 1819) *

John Collier Jones John Collier Jones (1770 – 7 August 1838) was an academic administrator at the University of Oxford in England. The son of Richard Jones of Plympton Erle, Devon, Jones was educated at Exeter College, Oxford, matriculating in 1788 aged 18, gradu ...

(6 November 1819 – d. 7 August 1838) * Joseph Loscombe Richards (1 September 1838 – d. 27 February 1854) *

John Prideaux Lightfoot John Prideaux Lightfoot (23 March 1803 – 23 March 1887) was an English clergyman who served as the rector of Exeter College, Oxford, from 18 March 1854 until his death and as vice-chancellor of Oxford University from 1862 to 1866. He was the p ...

(18 March 1854 – d. 23 March 1887)

1887–present

* William Jackson Jr (15 April 1887 – resigned 25 March 1913) *

Lewis Richard Farnell Lewis Richard Farnell FBA (1856–1934) was a classical scholar and Oxford academic, where he served as vice-chancellor from 1920 to 1923. George Stanley Farnell in the inscription of the 1896 edition of the first volume of the first edition of ...

(15 April 1913 – resigned 19 September 1928) *

Robert Ranulph Marett Robert Ranulph Marett (13 June 1866 – 18 February 1943) was a British ethnologist and a proponent of the British Evolutionary School of cultural anthropology. Founded by Marett's older colleague, Edward Burnett Tylor, it asserted that mode ...

(10 October 1928 – d. 18 February 1943) * Eric Arthur Barber (26 September 1943 – 1956) * Sir Kenneth Clinton Wheare (1956 – resigned 1972) * Greig Barr (1972 – resigned 1982) (d. 23 April 2008) * The Lord Crowther-Hunt (1982 – d. 16 February 1987) * Sir Richard Norman (1987 – d. 6 June 1993) *

Marilyn Butler Marilyn Speers Butler, Lady Butler, FRSA, FRSL, Fellow of the British Academy, FBA (''née'' Evans; 11 February 1937 – 11 March 2014) was a British literary criticism, literary critic. She was King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at ...

(1993–2004) * Dame Frances Cairncross (2004–2014) * Sir Rick Trainor (2014–2024) * Dr Andrew Roe (October 2024)

References

*'Exeter College', A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3: The University of Oxford (1954), pp. 107–118. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63875. Date accessed: 25 February 2008. {{DEFAULTSORT:List of Rectors of Exeter College

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