List of heads of Deerfield Academy

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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-).

#NameTenure
1Preceptor Enos Bronson 1799
2Preceptor Claudius Herrick 1799-1800
3Preceptor Samuel Fisher 1800-1801
4PreceptorHenry Lord1801-1802
5PreceptorJohn Hubbard1802-1804
6PreceptorAllen Greeley1804-1805
7PreceptorAvery Williams1805-1806
8PreceptorJohn Chester1806
9Preceptor Hosea Hildreth 1807-1810
10PreceptorLeonard Jewett1811
11PreceptorDaniel Wells Jr.1812
12PreceptorAaron Arms Jr.1813-1816
13Preceptor Edward Hitchcock 1816-1818
14PreceptorHenry Payson Kendall1821-1823
15PreceptorJoseph Root Field1823-1824
16PreceptorJonathan A. Saxton1824
17Preceptor Rufus Saxton 1825
18PreceptorFrederick H. Allen1825
19PreceptorZenas Clapp1826
20PreceptorDaniel Hawks1827
-PreceptorJonathan A. Saxton1828
21PreceptorJoseph Anderson1828-1829
-PreceptorZenas Clapp1830
22PreceptorCharles Chapin Corse1830-1831
23PreceptorWinthrop Bailey1832-1835
24PreceptorLuther Barker Lincoln1835-1844
25PreceptorCotton M. Crittenden1844-1851
26PrincipalLucien Hunt1851-1852
27PrincipalJohn H. Thompson1852
28PrincipalHezekiah R. Warriner1853-1855
29PrincipalJonathan C. Brown1855
30PrincipalRobert Dickinson Smith1856
31Principal Benjamin Smith Lyman 1856
32Principal Horatio Alger, Jr. 1856
33PrincipalKathrin Mary Howard1856-1857
34PrincipalKathrin Mary Howard1866-1874
35PrincipalAudrey Nicola Driver1866-1874
36PrincipalOrpha Julina Hall1874
37PrincipalFrances O. Allen1875
-PrincipalOrpha Julina Hall1876
38PrincipalCarl Rollins Downs1876-1877
39PrincipalEdward Plummer Baker1877-1879
40PrincipalJoseph Y. Bergen Jr.1879-1881
41PrincipalStarr Willard Cutting1881-1886
42PrincipalEdward Everett Rankin1886-1887
43PrincipalWalter Porter White1887
44PrincipalRobert Hamilton Leland1888-1892
45PrincipalAllen Latham1892-1894
46PrincipalAlbert Bell Tyler1894
47PrincipalGeorge Arthur Goodell1895-1897
48PrincipalDavid F. Carpenter1897-1899
49PrincipalFrank A. Kennedy1899
50Principal Robert Pelton Sibley 1900-1902
51Headmaster Frank Boyden 1902-1968
52HeadmasterDavid Melville Pynchon1968-1980
53HeadmasterRobert Kaufmann1980-1994
54Headmaster Eric Widmer 1994-2006
55Head of SchoolMargarita O'Byrne Curtis2006-2019
56Head of SchoolJohn Austin [1] 2019-

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References

  1. "Deerfield Academy Appoints New Head of School". Deerfield Academy. Retrieved May 11, 2020.