A list of masters of St John's College, Cambridge.

№ Name Portrait Term of office
1 Robert Shorton 9 April 1511 July 1516
2 Alan Percy July 1516 November 1518
3 Nicholas Metcalfe December 1518 4 July 1537
4 George Day 27 July 1537 6 June 1538
5 John Taylor 4 July 1538 1546
6 William Bill 10 March 1546 10 December 1551
7 Thomas Lever 10 December 1551 1553
8 Thomas Watson 28 September 1553 1554
9 George Bullock 12 May 1554 20 July 1559
10 James Pilkington 20 July 1559 1561
11 Leonard Pilkington 19 October 1561 1564
12 Richard Longworth 11 May 1564 1569
13 Nicholas Shepherd 17 December 1569 1574
14 John Still 21 July 1574 1577
15 Richard Howland 21 July 1577 1587
16 William Whitaker 25 February 1587 4 December 1595†
17 Richard Clayton 22 December 1595 2 May 1612†
18 Owen Gwyn 16 May 1612 June 1633†
(buried 5 June 1633)
19 William Beale 20 February 1634 1644
20 John Arrowsmith 11 April 1644 May 1653
21 Anthony Tuckney 3 June 1653 1661
22 Peter Gunning 5 June 1661 6 March 1670
23 Francis Turner 11 April 1670 1679
24 Humphrey Gower 3 December 1679 27 March 1711†
25 Robert Jenkin 13 April 1711 7 April 1727†
26 Robert Lambert 21 April 1727 24 January 1735†
27 John Newcome 6 February 1735 10 January 1765†
28 William Samuel Powell 25 January 1765 19 January 1775†
29 John Chevallier 1 February 1775 14 March 1789†
30 William Craven 29 March 1789 28 January 1815†
31 James Wood 11 February 1815 23 April 1839†
32 Ralph Tatham 7 May 1839 19 January 1857†
33 William Henry Bateson 2 February 1857 27 March 1881†
34 Charles Taylor 12 April 1881 12 August 1908†
35 Sir Robert Forsyth Scott 21 August 1908 18 November 1933†
36 Ernest Alfred Benians 7 December 1933 13 February 1952†
37 James Mann Wordie 13 December 1952 1959
38 John Boys Smith 1959 1969
39 Nicholas Mansergh 1 October 1969 12 July 1979
40 Sir Harry Hinsley 1979 31 July 1989
41 Robert Hinde 1989 1994
42 Peter Goddard 1994 5 January 2004
43 Richard Perham 5 January 2004 30 September 2007[1]
44[1] Chris Dobson October 2007 8 September 2019
45 Heather Hancock[2] 1 October 2020 -

Dates for masters up to 13 Dec 1952 are taken from[3]

Many of the later dates are taken from the college magazine, The Eagle

References

  1. 1 2 "University of Cambridge: 22 January 2007: Christopher Dobson elected new Master of St John's College". Archived from the original on 11 May 2011. Retrieved 14 March 2009. The Election of Chris Dobson as Master (University of Cambridge Press Release)
  2. ↑ "Heather Hancock appointed as Master of St John's College". www.joh.cam.ac.uk. 4 December 2019. Retrieved 4 December 2019.
  3. ↑ http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66654 A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 3 (1959; Editor J. P. C. Roach)
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