The head of Brasenose College, University of Oxford, is the principal. The current principal is John Bowers, who took up the appointment in October 2015.
Name | From | To | Notes |
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Matthew Smyth | 1512 | 1548 | First principal; [1] died in office |
John Hawarden | 1548 | 1565 | |
Thomas Blanchard | 1565 | 1574 | |
Richard Harris | 1574 | 1595 | |
Alexander Nowell | 1595 | 1595 | |
Thomas Singleton | 1595 | 1614 | Died in office |
Samuel Radcliffe | 1614 | 1648 | Ejected by Parliamentary visitors 20 January 1648, but remained at Brasenose; died 26 June 1648 |
Daniel Greenwood | 1648 | 1660 | Parliamentary appointee, 29 February 1648 |
Thomas Yate | 1660 | 1681 | Elected 13 July 1648, in opposition to Greenwood; restored 10 August 1660; died in office |
John Meare | 1681 | 1710 | Died in office |
Robert Shippen | 1710 | 1745 | Died in office |
Francis Yarborough | 1745 | 1770 | Died in office |
William Gwyn | 1770 | 1770 | Died in office, four months after election |
Ralph Cawley | 1770 | 1777 | Died in office |
Thomas Barker | 1777 | 1785 | Died in office |
William Cleaver | 1785 | 1809 | |
Frodsham Hodson | 1809 | 1822 | Died in office |
Ashurst Gilbert | 1822 | 1842 | |
Richard Harington | 1842 | 1853 | Died in office |
Edward Hartopp Cradock | 1853 | 1886 | Died in office [2] |
Albert Watson | 1886 | 1889 | |
Charles Buller Heberden | 1889 | 1920 | |
Charles Henry Sampson | 1920 | 1936 | Died in office |
William Stallybrass | 1936 | 1948 | Died in office |
Hugh Last | 1948 | 1956 | |
Maurice Platnauer | 1956 | 1960 | |
Noel Frederick Hall | 1960 | 1973 | |
Herbert Hart | 1973 | 1978 | |
Barry Nicholas | 1978 | 1989 | |
David Hennessy, 3rd Baron Windlesham | 1989 | 2002 | |
Roger Cashmore | 2002 | 2011 | |
Alan Bowman | 2011 | 2015 | |
John Bowers | 2015 | [3] |
Brasenose College (BNC) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It began as Brasenose Hall in the 13th century, before being founded as a college in 1509. The library and chapel were added in the mid-17th century and the new quadrangle in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
John Keiran Barry Moylan Nicholas (1919–2002) was a British legal scholar. He was Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Oxford from 1971 to 1978, and Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford, from 1978 to 1989.
William Smyth was Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield from 1493 to 1496 and then Bishop of Lincoln until his death. He held political offices, the most important being Lord President of the Council of Wales and the Marches. He became very wealthy and was a benefactor of a number of institutions. He was a co-founder of Brasenose College, Oxford and endowed a grammar school in the village of his birth in Lancashire.
Llewellyn John MontfortBebb was a British academic.
John Bowers or Johnathan Bowers may refer to:
Roger John Cashmore is the chair of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. Previously he was principal of Brasenose College, Oxford, and professor of experimental physics at the University of Oxford. His interests include the origin of the masses of particles and the Higgs boson.
Charles Buller Heberden was an English classical scholar and academic administrator. He was principal of Brasenose College, Oxford (1889–1920) and served as Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University.
Frodsham Hodson (1770–1822) was an English churchman and academic, the Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford, from 1809.
Robert Shippen D.D. FRS (1675–1745) was an English academic administrator at the University of Oxford.
John Meare was an English clergyman and academic administrator at the University of Oxford.
Daniel Greenwood was an English clergyman and academic administrator at the University of Oxford.
Hugh Macilwain Last was Camden Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford and Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford.
The history of Brasenose College, Oxford, stretches back to 1509, when Brasenose College was founded on the site of Brasenose Hall. Its name is believed to derive from the name of a bronze knocker that adorned the hall's door. The college was associated with Lancashire and Cheshire, the county origins of its two founders – Sir Richard Sutton and the Bishop of Lincoln, William Smyth – a link that was maintained strongly until the latter half of the nineteenth century. The first principals navigated Brasenose, with its Catholic sympathisers, through the reformation and continuing religious reforms. Most of Brasenose favoured the Royalist side during the English Civil War, although it produced notable generals and clergy on both sides. The library and chapel were completed in the mid-seventeenth century, despite Brasenose suffering continuing financial problems.
John Bowers is a British barrister and part-time judge who has been Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford since 1 October 2015.
George Buckley Bower was an English churchman and academic. He was Archdeacon of Richmond from 1797 until his death.
Bishop Cosin's Hall was a college of the University of Durham, opened in 1851 as the university's third college and named after 17th century Bishop of Durham John Cosin. It closed in 1864 due to a fall in student recruitment at the university.
Thomas Singleton was an English clergyman and academic.
Charles Henry Sampson (1859-1936) was Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford, from 1920 until his death.
Matthew Smyth was the first Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford.
Samuel Radcliffe was an Oxford academic and clergyman.