The following is a list of masters of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge :
The following is a list of masters of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge :
Corpus Christi College, is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. From the late 14th century through to the early 19th century it was also commonly known as St Benet's College.
Richard Sterne was a Church of England priest, Archbishop of York from 1664 to 1683.
Michael William McCrum CBE was an English academic and ancient historian who served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and Head Master of Tonbridge School and Eton College.
The White's Chair of Moral Philosophy was endowed in 1621 by Thomas White, Canon of Christ Church as the oldest professorial post in philosophy at the University of Oxford.
The Parker Library is a library within Corpus Christi College, Cambridge which contains rare books and manuscripts. It is known throughout the world due to its invaluable collection of over 600 manuscripts, particularly medieval texts, the majority of which were bequeathed to the college by Archbishop of Canterbury Matthew Parker, a former Master of Corpus Christi College.
Stuart Laing is a former British diplomat and was Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge from 2008 to 2018.
Matthias Mawson was an English clergyman and academic who served as Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and subsequently as Bishop of Llandaff, Bishop of Chichester, and Bishop of Ely.
Sir William Spens, CBE was a Scottish educationalist, academic and Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Robert Townley Caldwell was the Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge from 1906 to 1914.
Edward Henry Perowne was an English clergyman and college head, Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Christopher Kelly is an Australian classicist and historian, who specializes in the later Roman Empire and the classical tradition. He has been Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge since 2018.
Edmund Castle (1698–1750) was an English churchman and academic, Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge from 1745, and Dean of Hereford in 1749.
John Pory (1502/03–1570) was an English churchman and academic, Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
John Copcot, DD was an English cleric and academic, becoming Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge and Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
John Lamb, was an academic and Anglican priest in the first half of the nineteenth century: a mathematician he was Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge from 1822 to 1837; and Dean of Bristol from 1837 until his death.
John Barnardiston (1719–1778) was the principal librarian (protobibliothecarius) of the University of Cambridge from 1769 to 1778 and the Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge from 1764 until 1778. He was educated at Tonbridge School; matriculated as a sizar of Corpus Christi in 1737; and was awarded four university degrees: B.A. (1740/41); M.A. (1744); B.D. (1752); and D.D. (1764). He was a Fellow of Corpus Christi from 1745 to 1759, and became Master in 1764. He died in the college.
Henry Butts, D.D. (1573–1632) was a priest and academic in the second half of the sixteenth century and the first decades of the seventeenth.
Thomas Jegon was a priest and academic in the late sixteenth and the early seventeenth centuries.
Thomas Cosyn was a priest and academic in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.
Richard de Billingford was Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, holding the position three times, from 1400–1402, 1406-1413 and in 1432.
