List of presidents of Queens' College, Cambridge

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This is a list of presidents of Queens' College, Cambridge. While the head of most colleges are called masters, the head of Queens' College, Cambridge, has been called the president since 1448.^[1] Below is the list of presidents that have served the college:

Name	Dates	Notes
Andrew Dokett	1448–1484	English churchman and academic
Thomas Wilkynson	1484–1505	Vicar, Canon of Ripon
John Cardinal Fisher	1505–1508	Catholic Bishop of Rochester; executed by Henry VIII for refusing to accept him as head of the Church of England in 1535, canonised in 1935. Namesake of the Fisher Building.
Robert Bekensaw	1508–1519	English churchman and academic
John Jenyn	1519–1525	Cleric
Thomas Forman	1525–1527	Rector of All Hallows, London. Early Reformer.
William Frankleyn	1527–1529	English churchman, dean of Windsor
Simon Heynes	1529–1537	Theologian. Early reformer.
William May	1537–1553, 1559–1560	Theologian and dean of St Paul's Cathedral; his report saved the Cambridge colleges from dissolution under Henry VIII
William Glyn	1553–1557	Also Bishop of Bangor
Thomas Pecocke	1557–1559	Theologian
John Stokes	1560–1568	Also Archdeacon of York
William Chaderton	1568–1579	Later Bishop of Chester and Bishop of Lincoln
Humphrey Tyndall	1579–1614	Theologian, Dean of Ely and Archdeacon of Stafford
John Davenant	1614–1622	Later Bishop of Salisbury
John Mansell	1622–1631	Churchman, theologian, philosopher
Edward Martin	1631–1644, 1660–1662	Sent the college silver to King Charles I; imprisoned in the Tower of London by Oliver Cromwell; restored to presidency under Charles II
Herbert Palmer	1644–1647	Puritan and member of the Westminster Assembly; installed as President by Cromwell
Thomas Horton	1647–1660	Theologian; removed by the restoration of the monarchy
Anthony Sparrow	1662–1667	Later Bishop of Exeter and Bishop of Norwich
William Wells	1667–1675	Archdeacon of Colchester
Henry James	1675–1717	Theologian, Regius Professor of Divinity.
John Davies	1717–1732	Clergyman and classicist.
William Sedgwick	1732–1760	Clergyman and academic.
Robert Plumptre	1760–1788	Clergyman and academic.
Isaac Milner	1788–1820	Clergyman, mathematician, inventor, abolitionist. Lucasian Professor of Mathematics and Dean of Carlisle.
Henry Godfrey	1820–1832	Clergyman and academic.
Joshua King	1832–1857	Mathematician, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics.
George Phillips	1857–1892	Clergyman, mathematician, scholar of Semitic languages.
William Magan Campion	1892–1896	Clergyman and mathematician.
Herbert Edward Ryle	1896–1901	Theologian, Hulsean Professor of Divinity. Later Bishop of Exeter, Bishop of Winchester and Dean of Westminster
Frederic Chase	1901–1906	Theologian, Norrisian Professor of Divinity. Later Bishop of Ely.
Thomas Cecil Fitzpatrick	1906–1931	Clergyman and physicist. Namesake of Fitzpatrick Hall in Cripps Court.
John Archibald Venn	1931–1958	Economist and government advisor. Son of the logician John Venn.
Arthur Armitage	1958–1970	Barrister and government advisor. Namesake of the Armitage Room above Fitzpatrick Hall.
Sir Derek Bowett	1970–1982	International lawyer, Whewell Professor of International Law.
Lord Oxburgh	1982–1988	Geologist and geophysicist
Sir John Polkinghorne	1988–1996	KBE; FRS; physicist and theologian; extensive writer on science-faith relations; Templeton Prize 2002; member of General Synod
Lord Eatwell	1997–2020	Economist, previously chief economic adviser to Neil Kinnock and chairman of the British Library; Opposition Spokesman for the Treasury in the House of Lords.
Mohamed A. El-Erian	2020 –	Economist, previously Chief Executive Officer at PIMCO

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