Richard Hunt was Dean [1] of Durham [2] from his installation on 29 May 1620 until his death on 2 November 1638.
Hunt was educated at TrinityCollege, [3] Cambridge. [4] He was Vicar of Terrington [5] from 1609 and a Prebendary of Canterbury [6] from 1614 to 1633. Later he was the Rector of Foulsham and a Prebendary of Lichfield.
Robert Winchelsey was an English Catholic theologian and Archbishop of Canterbury. He studied at the universities of Paris and Oxford, and later taught at both. Influenced by Thomas Aquinas, he was a scholastic theologian.
John Bird Sumner was a bishop in the Church of England and Archbishop of Canterbury.
William Courtenay was Archbishop of Canterbury (1381–1396), having previously been Bishop of Hereford and Bishop of London.
Thurstan or Turstin of Bayeux was a medieval Archbishop of York, the son of a priest. He served kings William II and Henry I of England before his election to the see of York in 1114. Once elected, his consecration was delayed for five years while he fought attempts by the Archbishop of Canterbury to assert primacy over York. Eventually, he was consecrated by the pope instead and allowed to return to England. While archbishop, he secured two new suffragan bishops for his province. When Henry I died, Thurstan supported Henry's nephew Stephen of Blois as king. Thurstan also defended the northern part of England from invasion by the Scots, taking a leading part in organising the English forces at the Battle of the Standard (1138). Shortly before his death, Thurstan resigned from his see and took the habit of a Cluniac monk.
John Cosin was an English bishop.
John Blakiston, was a member of the English parliament, one of the regicides of King Charles I of England, a prominent mercer and coal merchant, puritan and anti-Episcopalian.
William de Wickwane was Archbishop of York between 1279 and 1285.
Lawrence Booth served as bishop of Durham and lord chancellor of England, before being appointed archbishop of York.
Henry Montagu Villiers was a British clergyman of the Church of England from the Villiers family.
James Cornwallis, 4th Earl Cornwallis was a British clergyman and peer.
Richard Nykke became bishop of Norwich under Pope Alexander VI in 1515. Norwich at this time was the second-largest conurbation in England, after London.
Thomas Sparke was the only medieval incumbent of the office of Bishop of Berwick in England. Previously Prior of Lindisfarne and Prebendary at Durham Cathedral, he was consecrated by Edward Lee, Archbishop of York, in 1536 and continued in post until his death in 1572.
Alistair James Magowan is a British retired Anglican bishop. He served as the Bishop of Ludlow — the sole suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Hereford — from 2009 until his 2020 retirement.
Thomas Stanley was Bishop of Sodor and Man during the English Reformation-era.
Thomas Dampier was Dean of Durham from his installation on 17 June 1774 until his death.
John Sudbury was Dean of Durham from his installation on 15 February 1661 until his death on 29 November 1684. He was born at Bury St Edmunds in 1604, educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and ordained in 1629. He was Vicar of Leigh, Kent from 1639 to 1642 and a Prebendary of Westminster from 1660 to 1661.
Andrew Stratford, also known as Andrew de Stratford and Andrew de Strelford, was a medieval English landowner and verderer of the House of Stratford.
Christopher Plummer was a Canon of Windsor from 1513 - 1535. He was attainted and deprived in 1535.
The Ven. Henry Egerton (1729–1795) was Archdeacon of Derby from 1769 until his death.
John Howorth, D.D. was a 17th-century priest and academic.
