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- Christopher Wren (1698–1723)
- Nicholas Hawksmoor (1723–1736)
- John James (1736–1746)
- James Horne (1746–1752)
- Henry Keene (1752–1776)
- James Wyatt (1776–1813)
- Benjamin Dean Wyatt (1813–1827)
- Edward Blore (1827–1849)
- George Gilbert Scott (1849–1878)
- John Loughborough Pearson (1878–1897)
- John Thomas Micklethwaite (1897–1906)
- William Lethaby (1906–1928)
- Walter Tapper (1928–1935)
- Charles Reed Peers (1935–1951)
- Stephen Dykes Bower (1951–1973)
- (John) Peter Foster (1973–1988)
- Donald Buttress (1988–1999)
- John Burton (1999–2012)
- Ptolemy Dean (2012–present)
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- 1 2 Webster, Charles (30 November 1979). Health, Medicine and Mortality in the Sixteenth Century. CUP Archive. ISBN 9780521226431.
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