List of wardens of All Souls College, Oxford

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The head of All Souls College, University of Oxford, is the Warden. The current Warden is Sir John Vickers who was elected in October 2008.

List of Wardens of All Souls College

NameFromToNotes
Roger Keys 14421445
John Stokes 14661494
Thomas Hobbs 14991504
William Broke 15041524
John Warner 1536 ?
Seth Holland 1555c. 1558Removed from the wardenship and died in prison [1]
Richard Barber 15651570Also Archdeacon of Leicester [2]
Robert Hovenden 15711614Died in office
Richard Mocket 16141618Died in office [3]
Richard Astley 16181636Died in office 23 February 1635/36 [4]
Gilbert Sheldon 16361648Archbishop of Canterbury (1663-1677) [5]
Gilbert Sheldon (2nd term)16601661Also Bishop of London (1660-1663)
Bernard Gardiner 17021726
Stephen Niblett 17261766
John Tracy, 7th Viscount Tracy 17661793
Edmund Isham 17931817Died in office
Edward Legge 18171827Also Bishop of Oxford (1816–1827)
Lewis Sneyd 18271858
Francis Leighton 18581881
Sir William Anson, 3rd Baronet 18811914
Francis William Pember 19141932
Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford 19321933Died in office
William George Stewart Adams 19331945
Benedict Humphrey Sumner 19471951
Sir Hubert Douglas Henderson 19511952
John Hanbury Angus Sparrow 19521977
Patrick Neill 19771995
John Davis 19952008 [6]
Sir John Vickers 2008Incumbent

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