List of masters of Peterhouse, Cambridge

Last updated December 17, 2023

The Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge is the head of the oldest Cambridge University college, Peterhouse. As of 2014 there have been 52 masters (counting John Cosin twice), the incumbent being Andy Parker (physicist).

List of masters

#	Name	Term of office
1	Gerard de Hoo	occurs 1290, after 21 June
2	Robert de Winwick	occurs 1333
3	Robert de Mildenhall	occurs 12 May 1338^{[lower-alpha 1]}
4	Roger de la Goter	occurs 1338–9 and 1340.
5	Ralph de Holbeche	occurs April 1344	1349 (resigned)
6	William de Whittlesea	10 September 1349	1351 (resigned)
7	Richard de Wisbeche	1351	c. 1374
8	Thomas de Wormenhall	c. 1374	1381–2†
9	John de Newton	3 March 1382	1397 (resigned)
10	William Cavendish	11 April 1397	1397 (resigned)
11	John de Bottlesham	27 August 1397	1400 (resigned)
12	Thomas de Castro-Bernardi	14 June 1400	occurs 1417–18, died 1420–1.
13	John Holbroke	1418? (occurs before 1421)	1436†?
14	Thomas Lane	1436? (occurs 1438)	1473†
15	John Warkworth	6 November 1473	October 1500†
16	Thomas Denman	19 November 1500	1500–1†
17	Henry Hornby	1500–1	12 February 1518†^[1]
18	William Burgoyne	18 or 19 February 1518	died before 30 January 1523
19	John Edmunds	occurs from Michaelmas 1523	November 1544†
20	Ralph Aynsworth	1544	1553 (ejected)
21	Andrew Perne	4 February 1554	26 April 1589†
22	Robert Some	11 May 1589	14 January 1609†^[2]
23	John Richardson	30 January 1609	27 May 1615 (resigned)
24	Thomas Turner	15 June 1615	October 1617†
25	Leonard Mawe	16 November 1617	1625 (resigned)
26	Matthew Wren	26 July 1625^[3]	22 January 1635 (resigned)
27	John Cosin	8 February 1635	13 March 1644 (ejected)
28	Lazarus Seaman	11 April 1644	1660 (ejected)
27	John Cosin	3 August 1660 (restored)	18 October 1660 (resigned)
29	Bernard Hale	5 November 1660	29 March 1663†
30	Joseph Beaumont	24 April 1663	24 November 1699†
31	Thomas Richardson	9 December 1699	30 July 1733†
32	John Whalley	21 August 1733	12 December 1748†^[4]
33	Edmund Keene	29 December 1748	25 October 1754 (resigned)
34	Edmund Law	12 November 1754	14 August 1787†
35	Francis Barnes	3 May 1788	1 May 1838†
36	William Hodgson	16 May 1838	16 October 1847†
37	Henry Wilkinson Cookson	3 or 4 November 1847	30 September 1876†
38	James Porter	28 October 1876	2 October 1900†
39	Sir Adolphus Ward	29 October 1900	19 June 1924†
40	The Lord Chalmers	5 July 1924	1931 (resigned)
41	Sir William Birdwood	20 April 1931	1938 (resigned)
42	Harold Temperley	1 July 1938	11 July 1939†
43	Paul Cairn Vellacott	29 July 1939	15 November 1954†
44	Herbert Butterfield	17 January 1955	1968
45	John Charles Burkill	1968	1973
46	Grahame Clark	1973	1980
47	The Lord Dacre of Glanton (Hugh Trevor-Roper)	1980	1987
48	Henry Chadwick	1987	1993
49	Sir John Meurig Thomas	1993	2002
50	The Lord Wilson of Tillyorn	2002	2008
51	Adrian Dixon	2008	2016
52	Bridget Kendall	2016	2023
53	Andy Parker	2023	"incumbent"

Notes

↑ Disputed by Venn, as de Mildenhall was Master of Michaelhouse 1328 to at least 1347.

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References

Victoria County Histories, A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 3, The City and University of Cambridge, The colleges and halls: Peterhouse, (pp. 334-340) London, 1959.

↑ "Horneby, Henry (HNBY489H)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
↑ Archold, William Arthur Jobson (1898). "Some, Robert" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 53. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
↑ Gordon, Alexander (1900). "Wren, Matthew (1585-1667)" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 63. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
↑ Brydges, Egerton, Restituta: Or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English: p.393

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[1] Disputed by Venn, as de Mildenhall was Master of Michaelhouse 1328 to at least 1347.

[2] "Horneby, Henry (HNBY489H)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

[3] Archold, William Arthur Jobson (1898). "Some, Robert" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 53. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

[4] Gordon, Alexander (1900). "Wren, Matthew (1585-1667)" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 63. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

[5] Brydges, Egerton, Restituta: Or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English: p.393

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