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Deerfield Academy is led by a Head of School selected by the Board of Trustees. During the Academy's history, the position has been known as Preceptor (1799-1851), Principal (1851-1902), Headmaster (1902-2006), and Head of School (2006-).
# | Name | Tenure | |
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1 | Preceptor | Enos Bronson | 1799 |
2 | Preceptor | Claudius Herrick | 1799-1800 |
3 | Preceptor | Samuel Fisher | 1800-1801 |
4 | Preceptor | Henry Lord | 1801-1802 |
5 | Preceptor | John Hubbard | 1802-1804 |
6 | Preceptor | Allen Greeley | 1804-1805 |
7 | Preceptor | Avery Williams | 1805-1806 |
8 | Preceptor | John Chester | 1806 |
9 | Preceptor | Hosea Hildreth | 1807-1810 |
10 | Preceptor | Leonard Jewett | 1811 |
11 | Preceptor | Daniel Wells Jr. | 1812 |
12 | Preceptor | Aaron Arms Jr. | 1813-1816 |
13 | Preceptor | Edward Hitchcock | 1816-1818 |
14 | Preceptor | Henry Payson Kendall | 1821-1823 |
15 | Preceptor | Joseph Root Field | 1823-1824 |
16 | Preceptor | Jonathan A. Saxton | 1824 |
17 | Preceptor | Rufus Saxton | 1825 |
18 | Preceptor | Frederick H. Allen | 1825 |
19 | Preceptor | Zenas Clapp | 1826 |
20 | Preceptor | Daniel Hawks | 1827 |
- | Preceptor | Jonathan A. Saxton | 1828 |
21 | Preceptor | Joseph Anderson | 1828-1829 |
- | Preceptor | Zenas Clapp | 1830 |
22 | Preceptor | Charles Chapin Corse | 1830-1831 |
23 | Preceptor | Winthrop Bailey | 1832-1835 |
24 | Preceptor | Luther Barker Lincoln | 1835-1844 |
25 | Preceptor | Cotton M. Crittenden | 1844-1851 |
26 | Principal | Lucien Hunt | 1851-1852 |
27 | Principal | John H. Thompson | 1852 |
28 | Principal | Hezekiah R. Warriner | 1853-1855 |
29 | Principal | Jonathan C. Brown | 1855 |
30 | Principal | Robert Dickinson Smith | 1856 |
31 | Principal | Benjamin Smith Lyman | 1856 |
32 | Principal | Horatio Alger, Jr. | 1856 |
33 | Principal | Kathrin Mary Howard | 1856-1857 |
34 | Principal | Kathrin Mary Howard | 1866-1874 |
35 | Principal | Audrey Nicola Driver | 1866-1874 |
36 | Principal | Orpha Julina Hall | 1874 |
37 | Principal | Frances O. Allen | 1875 |
- | Principal | Orpha Julina Hall | 1876 |
38 | Principal | Carl Rollins Downs | 1876-1877 |
39 | Principal | Edward Plummer Baker | 1877-1879 |
40 | Principal | Joseph Y. Bergen Jr. | 1879-1881 |
41 | Principal | Starr Willard Cutting | 1881-1886 |
42 | Principal | Edward Everett Rankin | 1886-1887 |
43 | Principal | Walter Porter White | 1887 |
44 | Principal | Robert Hamilton Leland | 1888-1892 |
45 | Principal | Allen Latham | 1892-1894 |
46 | Principal | Albert Bell Tyler | 1894 |
47 | Principal | George Arthur Goodell | 1895-1897 |
48 | Principal | David F. Carpenter | 1897-1899 |
49 | Principal | Frank A. Kennedy | 1899 |
50 | Principal | Robert Pelton Sibley | 1900-1902 |
51 | Headmaster | Frank Boyden | 1902-1968 |
52 | Headmaster | David Melville Pynchon | 1968-1980 |
53 | Headmaster | Robert Kaufmann | 1980-1994 |
54 | Headmaster | Eric Widmer | 1994-2006 |
55 | Head of School | Margarita O'Byrne Curtis | 2006-2019 |
56 | Head of School | John Austin [1] | 2019- |
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