List of Masters of Jesus College, Cambridge
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The following persons have served as Master of Jesus College, Cambridge
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Jesus College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.The College was founded in 1496 on the site of a Benedictine nunnery by John Alcock, then Bishop of Ely...
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- 1497–1505 William Chubbes
- 1505–1516 John Eccleston
- 1516–1516 Thomas Alcock
- 1516–1546 William CaponWilliam CaponWilliam Capon was an English churchman and scholar.-Life:He was born at Salcott, near Colchester in Essex in 1480. He was educated at Cambridge University, earning his B.A. degree in 1499 and his M.A. in 1502 . In 1516 he became a Master of Jesus College, Cambridge and in 1526, aged 46, he was...
- 1546–1551 John Reston
- 1551–1557 Edmund Pierpoint
- 1557–1558 John Fuller
- 1559–1560 Thomas Redman
- 1560–1562 Edward Gascoyne
- 1562–1563 John Lakin
- 1563–1579 Thomas Ithell
- 1579–1589 John Bell
- 1590–1617 John DuportJohn DuportJohn Duport was an English scholar and translator.Dr John Duport was born in Shepshed in Leicestershire. He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he became a Fellow in 1674. In 1583 he became rector of Fulham, and in 1585 precentor of St Paul's Cathedral...
- 1618–1632 Roger AndrewesRoger AndrewesDr Roger Andrewes was an English churchman and academic, archdeacon and Chancellor at Chichester Cathedral in the English Church...
- 1632–1634 William BealeWilliam Beale (college head)William Beale was an English royalist churchman, Master in turn of Jesus College, Cambridge and St John's College, Cambridge. He was subjected to intense attacks by John Pym from 1640, for an unpublished sermon he had given in 1635 supporting royal prerogative...
- 1634–1644 Richard Sterne, Archbishop of York
- 1644–1650 Thomas Young
- 1650–1660 John WorthingtonJohn WorthingtonJohn Worthington was an English academic. He was closely associated with the Cambridge Platonists. He did not in fact publish in the field of philosophy, and is now known mainly as a well-connected diarist.-Life:...
- 1660–1660 Richard Sterne
- 1660–1662 John PearsonJohn Pearson (scholar)John Pearson was an English theologian and scholar.-Life:He was born at Great Snoring, Norfolk....
- 1662–1663 Joseph BeaumontJoseph BeaumontJoseph Beaumont was an English clergyman, academic and poet.-Life:The son of John Beaumont, clothier, and of Sarah Clarke, his wife, he was born at Hadleigh, Suffolk, on March 13, 1616. He was educated at Hadleigh grammar school, and proceeded to Cambridge in 1631, where he was admitted as a...
- 1663–1679 Edmund BolderoEdmund BolderoEdmund Boldero was an English royalist clergyman and academic, Master of Jesus College, Cambridge from 1663.-Life:He was a native of Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk. He was educated at Ipswich School and Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, where he matriculated as a pensioner in 1626, graduated B.A. in 1629 and...
- 1679–1679 Humphrey GowerHumphrey GowerHumphrey Gower was an English clergyman and academic, Master of Jesus College, Cambridge and then St. John's College, Cambridge, and Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity.-Life:...
- 1679–1701 William Saywell
- 1701–1752 Charles AshtonCharles Ashton (divine)Charles Ashton , was a distinguished scholar and divine.Ashton was born on 25 May 1665, at Bradway, in the parish of Norton, Derbyshire. He was admitted to Queens' College, Cambridge, on 18 May 1682, took the degree of B.A., and on 30 April 1687 was elected to a fellowship...
- 1752–1758 Philip Yonge
- 1758–1781 Lynford Caryl
- 1781–1789 Richard BeadonRichard BeadonRichard Beadon DD was Master of Jesus College, Cambridge 1781–1789 and later Vice-Chancellor of the University, Bishop of Gloucester and Bishop of Bath and Wells.-Life:...
- 1789–1820 William Pearce
- 1820–1849 William French
- 1849–1885 George Elwes Corrie
- 1885–1912 Henry Arthur Morgan
- 1912–1940 Arthur Gray
- 1940–1945 Wynfrid Laurence Henry Duckworth
- 1945–1959 Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall TillyardE. M. W. TillyardEustace Mandeville Wetenhall Tillyard was a British classical scholar and literary scholar. He was a Fellow in English at Jesus College and later Master of Jesus College , Cambridge. He is known mainly for his book The Elizabethan World Picture, as background to Elizabethan Literature,...
- 1959–1973 Denys Lionel Page
- 1973–1986 Alan CottrellAlan CottrellSir Alan Howard Cottrell, FRS is a British metallurgist and physicist. He received his BSc degree from the University of Birmingham in 1939 and a PhD for research on welding in 1942. He joined the staff as a lecturer at Birmingham, being made professor in 1949, and transforming the teaching of...
- 1986–1996 Colin Renfrew
- 1997–2000 David CrightonDavid CrightonDavid George Crighton FRS was a British mathematician and physicist.- Life :...
- 2001–2011 Robert MairRobert MairRobert James Mair CBE FREng FICE FRS is a British geotechnologist. He was appointed Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at Cambridge University in 1998, succeeding Andrew Noel Schofield. He was Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge from 1998 to 2001, when he became Master of Jesus College,...
- 2011– Ian WhiteIan WhiteIan White may refer to:* Ian H. White, first Van Eck Professor of Engineering* Ian White , BBC presenter* Ian White , English darts player* Ian White , Canadian ice hockey player...