List of Chancellors of the University of Oxford
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Below is a chronological list of Chancellor
Chancellor (education)
A chancellor or vice-chancellor is the chief executive of a university. Other titles are sometimes used, such as president or rector....

s of the University of Oxford
University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...

in England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 by year of appointment:
Year Chancellor
1224 Robert Grosseteste
Robert Grosseteste
Robert Grosseteste or Grossetete was an English statesman, scholastic philosopher, theologian and Bishop of Lincoln. He was born of humble parents at Stradbroke in Suffolk. A.C...

 (Master of the School of Oxford since 1208)
1231 Ralph Cole (surname queried)
1231 Ralph de Maidstone
1231 Richard Batchden
1233 Ralph Cole
1238 Simon de Bovill
1239 John de Rygater
1240 Richard of Chichester
Richard of Chichester
Richard of Chichester is a saint who was Bishop of Chichester...

1240 Ralph de Heyham
1244 Simon de Bovill
1246 Gilbert de Biham
1252 Ralph de Sempringham
1255 William de Lodelawe
1256 Richard de S. Agatha
1262 Thomas de Cantilupe
1264 Henry de Cicestre ?
1267 Nicholas de Ewelme
1269 Thomas Bek
Thomas Bek, Bishop of St David's
Thomas Bek was a Bishop of St David's.Thomas was the elder brother of Antony Bek, Bishop of Durham and of St David's. He was a trusted servant of King Edward I. He obtained many important and wealthy ecclesiastical positions, was made treasurer of England in 1279, and became bishop of St Davids...

1273 William de Bosco
1276 Eustace de Normanville
1280 John de Pontissara / John of Pontoise (Bishop of Winchester)
1280 Henry de Stanton
1282 William de Montfort
1283 Roger de Rowell or Rodwell or Rodewell
1284 William Pikerell
1285 Hervey de Saham
1288 Robert Winchelsey
Robert Winchelsey
Robert Winchelsey was an English Christian 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...

1289 William de Kingescote
1290 John de Ludlow
1290 John of Monmouth (afterwards Bishop of Llandaff)
1291 Simon of Ghent
Simon of Ghent
-Life:He was a prebendary of the diocese of Salisbury and Chancellor of Oxford University, as well as Archdeacon of Oxford.He was elected bishop on 2 June 1297 and consecrated on 20 October 1297 at Canterbury He died 2 April 1315.-References:...

 (afterwards Bishop of Salisbury)
1292 Henry Swayne ?
1293 Roger de Martival (afterwards Bishop of Salisbury)
1294 Peter de Medburn
1294 Roger de Weseham
1297 Richard de Clyve
1300 James de Cobeham
1302 Walter de Wetheringsete
1304 Simon de Faversham
1306 Walter Burdun
1308 William de Bosco
1309 Henry de Maunsfeld
1311 Walter Giffard
1311 Henry de Maunsfeld
1313 Henry Harclay
Henry Harclay
Henry Harclay , was an English philosopher. He was a Chancellor of the University of Oxford , and a secular master and scholastic philosopher. He played an important role in Oxford and Paris during the first two decades of the fourteenth century...

1316 Richard de Nottingham ?
1317 John Lutterell
John Lutterell
John Lutterell was an Oxford University theologian who came to Avignon in 1323. He hoped to advance his career at the papal court. He carried with him a booklet of 56 errors taken from a commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard by William of Ockham. Lutterell presented this to Pope John XXII...

 (resigned 1322)
1322 Henry Gower (afterwards Bishop of St David's)
1324 William de Alburwyke
1326 Thomas Hotham
1328 Ralph of Shrewsbury
Ralph of Shrewsbury
Ralph of Shrewsbury was a Bishop of Bath and Wells. He was elected 2 June 1329 and consecrated 3 September 1329...

1329 Roger de Streton
1330 Nigel de Wavere
1332 Ralph Radyn
1334 Hugh de Willoughby
1335 Robert de Stratford
Robert de Stratford
Robert de Stratford was an English bishop, and was one of Edward III of England's principal ministers.Stratford served for a time as deputy to his brother, John de Stratford, and in 1337 became chancellor and bishop of Chichester. He was elected bishop about 24 August 1337, and was consecrated...

 (later Bishop of Chichester, Lord High Chancellor of England)
1338 Robert Paynink ?
1338 John Leech
1339 William de Skelton
1341 Walter de Scauren
1341 William de Bergeveney
1345 John de Northwode
1349 William de Hawkesworth
1350 William de Palmorna (1350–1351)
1354 Humphrey de Cherlton
1357 Lewis Charlton ?
1357 John de Hotham
1358 John Renham or Reigham
1359 John de Hotham
1360 Richard Fitz Ralph
Richard FitzRalph
Richard FitzRalph was an Archbishop of Armagh during the 14th century. He was born into a well-off burgess family of Anglo-Norman/Hiberno-Norman descent in Dundalk, Ireland. He is noted as an ex-fellow and teacher of Balliol College, at the University of Oxford in 1325...

 ?
1360 Nicholas de Aston
1363 John de Renham
1363 John de Echingham or Hethingham
1366 Adam de Toneworth
1367 William Courtney
William Courtenay
William Courtenay , English prelate, was Archbishop of Canterbury, having previously been Bishop of Hereford and Bishop of London.-Life:...

 (afterwards Bishop of Hereford, London, Canterbury)
1369 Adam de Toneworth
1371 William de Heytisbury
1372 William de Remmyngton
1373 William de Wylton
1376 John Turke
1377 Adam de Toneworth
1379 Robert Aylesham
1379 William Berton
1381 Robert Rygge or Rugge
1382 William Berton
1382 Robert Rygge
1382 Nicholas Hereford
Nicholas Hereford
Nicholas of Hereford was an English theological scholar, and advocate of the English reform movement within the Roman Church. He later recanted his unorthodox views and participated in the repression of other reformers. He collaborated with John Wycliffe on the first complete English translation...

1382 William Rugge ?
1383 Robert Rygge
1388 Thomas Brightwell
1390 Thomas Cranley
Thomas Cranley
Thomas Cranley was a leading statesman and cleric in early fifteenth-century Ireland, who held the offices of Chancellor of Oxford, Archbishop of Dublin and Lord Chancellor of Ireland.- Early career :...

 (afterwards Archbishop of Dublin)
1391 Robert Rygge
1392 Ralph Redruth
1393 Thomas Prestbury
1394 Robert Arlyngton
1395 Thomas Hyndeman
1397 Philip Repyngdon (afterwards Bishop of Lincoln)
1397 Henry Beaufort (afterwards Bishop of Lincoln and Winchester)
1399 Thomas Hyndeman
1400 Philip Repyngdon
1403 Robert Alum or Halam
1407 Richard Courtenay
Richard Courtenay
Richard Courtenay , English prelate, was a son of Sir Philip Courtenay of Powderham Castle, near Exeter, and a grandson of Hugh de Courtenay, 10th Earl of Devon...

1407 Richard Ullerston
Richard Ullerston
Richard Ullerston was born in the Duchy of Lancaster, England, and died in August or September, 1423.Having been ordained priest in December, 1383, he became fellow of Queen's College, Oxford , holding office in the college, and proceeding to doctor of divinity and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford...

1408 William Clynt
1409 Thomas Pretbury
1410 William Sulburge
1411 Richard Courtenay
Richard Courtenay
Richard Courtenay , English prelate, was a son of Sir Philip Courtenay of Powderham Castle, near Exeter, and a grandson of Hugh de Courtenay, 10th Earl of Devon...

1412 William Sulburge
1412 Richard Courtenay
Richard Courtenay
Richard Courtenay , English prelate, was a son of Sir Philip Courtenay of Powderham Castle, near Exeter, and a grandson of Hugh de Courtenay, 10th Earl of Devon...

1413 William Sulburge
1413 William Barrow
William Barrow (bishop)
William Barrow was a Bishop of Bangor and a Bishop of Carlisle, Bishoprics in England.Barrow was selected as Bishop of Bangor on 15 February 1418, and consecrated after 13 October 1419....

 (afterwards Bishop of Bangor and of Carlisle)
1414 Richard Snetisham
1415 William Barrowe
1416 Thomas Clare
1416 William Barrowe ?
1417 Thomas Clare
1417 Walter Treugof
1419 Robert Colman
1419 Walter Treugof
1420 Thomas Rodborne
1420 Walter Treugof
1421 John Castell
John Castell
John Castell was a Master of University College, Oxford, and later a Chancellor of the University of OxfordCastell was a Fellow of University College. He became Master of the College in circa 1408. He also held preferment in the Diocese of York with his mastership...

1426 Thomas Chase
Thomas Chase
Thomas Chase was a 15th century judge and cleric who was Chancellor of the University of Oxford in England and subsequently held the office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland....

 (afterwards Chancellor of Ireland)
1431 Gilbert Kymer
Gilbert Kymer
Gilbert Kymer was Dean of Salisbury Cathedral, Chancellor of Oxford University, and a physician.Kymer was educated at the University of Oxford. He was a proctor of the University and Principal of Hart Hall, Oxford . He was twice Chancellor of Oxford University.In 1427, Kymer became Dean of...

1433 Thomas Bourchier
Thomas Bourchier
Thomas Bourchier was an English archbishop, Lord Chancellor and cardinal.-Life:Bourchier was a younger son of William Bourchier, 1st Count of Eu , and through his mother, Anne of Gloucester, a daughter of Thomas of Woodstock, was a grandson of King Edward III of England. One of his brothers was...

 (Archbishop of Canterbury
Archbishop of Canterbury
The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion, and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. In his role as head of the Anglican Communion, the archbishop leads the third largest group...

)
1437 John Carpenter
John Carpenter (bishop)
John Carpenter was an English Bishop, Provost and University Chancellor.-Early life:Bishop Carpenter's father was John Carpenter the elder, born c. 1362 to Richard or Renaud Carpenter of Cambrai and his wife Christina of London. John Carpenter the bishop was also known as John Carpenter the elder....

1438 Richard Praty
Richard Praty
Richard Praty was a medieval Bishop of Chichester.Praty was nominated to the office 21 April 1438, and consecrated on 27 July 1438. He died in August 1445.-References:...

 or Pratty ?
1439 John Norton
1440 Richard Roderham
1440 William Grey (afterwards Bishop of Ely)
1442 Thomas Gascoigne
Thomas Gascoigne (academic)
Thomas Gascoigne was a theologian and academic administrator. He was twice Vice-Chancellor and twice Chancellor of Oxford University....

1442 Henry Sever
1443 Thomas Gascoigne
Thomas Gascoigne (academic)
Thomas Gascoigne was a theologian and academic administrator. He was twice Vice-Chancellor and twice Chancellor of Oxford University....

1445 Robert Thwaits
1446 Gilbert Kymer
Gilbert Kymer
Gilbert Kymer was Dean of Salisbury Cathedral, Chancellor of Oxford University, and a physician.Kymer was educated at the University of Oxford. He was a proctor of the University and Principal of Hart Hall, Oxford . He was twice Chancellor of Oxford University.In 1427, Kymer became Dean of...

1453 George Neville (afterwards Bishop of Exeter and York; Chancellor of England)
1457 Thomas Chaundeler
1461 George Neville
1472 Thomas Chaundeler
1479 Lionel Woodville
Lionel Woodville
-Life:He was a younger son of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers and Jacquetta of Luxembourg; his siblings included Elizabeth Woodville, Queen Consort from 1464 to 1483....

 (afterwards Bishop of Salisbury)
1483 William Dudley
1483 John Russell
John Russell (bishop)
John Russell was an English Bishop of Rochester and bishop of Lincoln and Lord Chancellor.-Life:Russell was admitted to Winchester College in 1443, and in 1449 went to Oxford as Fellow of New College...

1494 John Morton
1500 William Smyth
William Smyth
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...

1502 Richard Mayew
Richard Mayew
Richard Mayew , also written Mayo, was an English academic, who became Bishop of Hereford and a diplomat for Henry VII of England.Mayew was born in Hungerford in Berkshire...

 (Bishop of Hereford)
1506 William Warham
William Warham
William Warham , Archbishop of Canterbury, belonged to a Hampshire family, and was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, afterwards practising and teaching law both in London and Oxford....

1532 John Longland
John Longland
John Longland was the English Dean of Salisbury from 1514 to 1521 and bishop of Lincoln from 1521 to his death in 1547.He was King Henry VIII's confessor and was said to have been one of those who first persuaded the King that he should annul his marriage to Katherine of Aragon.During the English...

 (Bishop of Lincoln)
1547 Richard Cox
Richard Cox (bishop)
Richard Cox was an English clergyman, who was Dean of Westminster and Bishop of Ely.-Biography:Cox was born of obscure parentage at Whaddon, Buckinghamshire, in 1499 or 1500....

1552 John Mason
1556 Cardinal Reginald Pole (Archbishop of Canterbury)
1558 Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel
Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel
Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel was an English nobleman, who over his long life assumed a prominent place at the court of all the later Tudor sovereigns, probably the only person to do so.-Court career:...

1559 John Mason
1564 Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, KG was an English nobleman and the favourite and close friend of Elizabeth I from her first year on the throne until his death...

1585 Sir Thomas Bromley
Thomas Bromley
Sir Thomas Bromley was an English lord chancellor.-Life:He was born in Staffordshire, was educated at Oxford University and then called to the bar at the Middle Temple...

, deputising for Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester)
1588 Sir Christopher Hatton
Christopher Hatton
Sir Christopher Hatton was an English politician, Lord Chancellor of England and a favourite of Elizabeth I of England.-Early days:...

1591 Thomas Sackville, 1st Baron Buckhurst
Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset
Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset was an English statesman, poet, dramatist and Freemason. He was the son of Richard Sackville, a cousin to Anne Boleyn. He was a Member of Parliament and Lord High Treasurer.-Biography:...

 (Earl of Dorset
Earl of Dorset
Earl of Dorset is a title that has been created at least four times in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1411 for Thomas Beaufort, who was later created Duke of Exeter. The peerages became extinct on his death....

 from 1604)
1608 Richard Bancroft
Richard Bancroft
Archbishop Richard Bancroft, DD, BD, MA, BA was an English churchman, who became Archbishop of Canterbury and the "chief overseer" of the production of the authorized version of the Bible.-Life:...

1610 Thomas Egerton, 1st Baron Ellesmere
Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley
Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley PC was an English Nobleman, Judge and Statesman who served as Lord Keeper and Lord Chancellor for twenty-one years.-Early life, education and legal career:...

 (Viscount Brackley
Viscount Brackley
The title Viscount Brackley has been created twice; once in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The English title was created in 1616 for Thomas Egerton, 1st Baron Ellesmere; however, he died a year later and the viscountcy merged with the earldom of Bridgewater,...

 from 1616)
1616 William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke
William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke
William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, KG, PC was the son of Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke and his third wife Mary Sidney. Chancellor of the University of Oxford, he founded Pembroke College, Oxford with King James. He was warden of the Forest of Dean, and constable of St Briavels from 1608...

1630 William Laud
William Laud
William Laud was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1633 to 1645. One of the High Church Caroline divines, he opposed radical forms of Puritanism...

1641 Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke
Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke
Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke and 1st Earl of Montgomery KG was an English courtier and politician active during the reigns of James I and Charles I...

1643 William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset
William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset
Sir William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset, KG was an English nobleman and Royalist commander in the English Civil War....

1648 Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke
Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke
Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke and 1st Earl of Montgomery KG was an English courtier and politician active during the reigns of James I and Charles I...

 (to his death on 23 January 1649)
1649 Vacant
1650 Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell was an English military and political leader who overthrew the English monarchy and temporarily turned England into a republican Commonwealth, and served as Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland....

1657 Richard Cromwell
Richard Cromwell
At the same time, the officers of the New Model Army became increasingly wary about the government's commitment to the military cause. The fact that Richard Cromwell lacked military credentials grated with men who had fought on the battlefields of the English Civil War to secure their nation's...

1660 William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset
William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset
Sir William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset, KG was an English nobleman and Royalist commander in the English Civil War....

1660 Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon was an English historian and statesman, and grandfather of two English monarchs, Mary II and Queen Anne.-Early life:...

1667 Gilbert Sheldon
Gilbert Sheldon
Gilbert Sheldon was an English Archbishop of Canterbury.-Early life:He was born in Stanton, Staffordshire in the parish of Ellastone, on 19 July 1598, the youngest son of Roger Sheldon; his father worked for Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury. He was educated at Trinity College, Oxford; he...

1669 James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde
James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde
James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde PC was an Irish statesman and soldier. He was the second of the Kilcash branch of the family to inherit the earldom. He was the friend of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, who appointeed him commander of the Cavalier forces in Ireland. From 1641 to 1647, he...

1688 James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde
James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde
James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde KG KT was an Irish statesman and soldier. He was the third of the Kilcash branch of the family to inherit the earldom of Ormonde...

1715 Charles Butler, 1st Earl of Arran
Charles Butler, 1st Earl of Arran
Lieutenant-General Charles Butler, 1st Earl of Arran , de jure 3rd Duke of Ormonde was an Irish peer. His uncle Richard was the 1st Earl of Arran of the first creation. The titles were re-created for Charles in 1693. He was younger son of the 6th Earl of Ossory and Emilia von Nassau...

1759 John Fane, 7th Earl of Westmorland
John Fane, 7th Earl of Westmorland
John Fane, 7th Earl of Westmorland was an English nobleman, styled The Honourable John Fane from 1691 to 1736....

1762 George Lee, 3rd Earl of Lichfield
George Lee, 3rd Earl of Lichfield
George Henry Lee II, 3rd Earl of Lichfield PC was a British politician and peer. He was made a Privy Councillor and Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms in 1762, holding both honors until death...

1772 Frederick North, Lord North
Frederick North, Lord North
Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford, KG, PC , more often known by his courtesy title, Lord North, which he used from 1752 until 1790, was Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1770 to 1782. He led Great Britain through most of the American War of Independence...

 (Earl of Guilford
Earl of Guilford
Earl of Guilford is a title that has been created three times in British history. The title was created for the first time in the Peerage of England in 1660 for Elizabeth Boyle. She was the daughter of William Feilding, 1st Earl of Denbigh, and the widow of Lewis Boyle, 1st Viscount Boyle of...

 from 1790)
1792 William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, KG, PC was a British Whig and Tory statesman, Chancellor of the University of Oxford and Prime Minister. He was known before 1762 by the courtesy title Marquess of Titchfield. He held a title of every degree of British nobility—Duke,...

1809 William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville
1834 Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS , was an Irish-born British soldier and statesman, and one of the leading military and political figures of the 19th century...

1852 Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, KG, PC was an English statesman, three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and to date the longest serving leader of the Conservative Party. He was known before 1834 as Edward Stanley, and from 1834 to 1851 as Lord Stanley...

1869 Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, KG, GCVO, PC , styled Lord Robert Cecil before 1865 and Viscount Cranborne from June 1865 until April 1868, was a British Conservative statesman and thrice Prime Minister, serving for a total of over 13 years...

1903 George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen
1907 George Curzon, 1st Baron Curzon of Kedleston
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC , known as The Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911 and as The Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, was a British Conservative statesman who was Viceroy of India and Foreign Secretary...

 (Earl Curzon of Kedleston from 1911; Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
The title Marquess Curzon of Kedleston was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1921 for the Foreign Secretary George Nathaniel Curzon, the then 1st Earl Curzon of Kedleston. The title became extinct upon his death four years later....

 from 1921)
1925 George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave
George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave
George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave GCMG, KC, PC was a British lawyer and Conservative politician. He was Home Secretary under David Lloyd George from 1916 to 1919 and served as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain from 1922 to 1924 and again from 1924 to 1928.-Background and education:Cave was born in...

 - see University of Oxford Chancellor election, 1925
University of Oxford Chancellor election, 1925
The 1925 University of Oxford election for the position of Chancellor was called upon the death of the incumbent Chancellor, George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston on 20 March 1925.-Electorate:...

1928 Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon KG, PC, FZL, DL , better known as Sir Edward Grey, Bt, was a British Liberal statesman. He served as Foreign Secretary from 1905 to 1916, the longest continuous tenure of any person in that office...

1933 E. F. L. Wood, 1st Baron Irwin
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, , known as The Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and as The Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was one of the most senior British Conservative politicians of the 1930s, during which he held several senior ministerial posts, most notably as...

 (Viscount Halifax from 1934; Earl of Halifax
Earl of Halifax
Earl of Halifax is a title that has been created four times in British history, once in the Peerage of England, twice in the Peerage of Great Britain and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The name of the peerage refers to Halifax, West Yorkshire....

 from 1944), (1933–1959)
1960 Harold Macmillan
Harold Macmillan
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC was Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 January 1957 to 18 October 1963....

 (Earl of Stockton
Earl of Stockton
Earl of Stockton is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 24 February 1984 for Harold Macmillan, the former Conservative Prime Minister, just under three years before his death...

 from 1984), (1960–1986) - see University of Oxford Chancellor election, 1960
University of Oxford Chancellor election, 1960
The 1960 University of Oxford election for the position of Chancellor was called upon the death of the incumbent Chancellor, Lord Halifax on 23 December 1959. It was the first election for Oxford Chancellor to be contested since 1925.-Electorate:...

1987 Roy Jenkins
Roy Jenkins
Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead OM, PC was a British politician.The son of a Welsh coal miner who later became a union official and Labour MP, Roy Jenkins served with distinction in World War II. Elected to Parliament as a Labour member in 1948, he served in several major posts in...

 (Baron Jenkins of Hillhead from 1987) (1987–2003) - see University of Oxford Chancellor election, 1987
University of Oxford Chancellor election, 1987
The 1987 University of Oxford election for the position of Chancellor was called upon the death of the incumbent Chancellor, Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton on 29 December 1986.-Electorate:...

2003 Chris Patten
Chris Patten
Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH, PC , is the last Governor of British Hong Kong, a former British Conservative politician, and the current chairman of the BBC Trust....

 (Baron Patten of Barnes from 2005) (2003-) - see University of Oxford Chancellor election, 2003
University of Oxford Chancellor election, 2003
The 2003 University of Oxford election for the position of Chancellor was called upon the death of the incumbent Chancellor, Roy Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead on 5 January 2003.-Electorate:...


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