List of Presidents of Queens' College, Cambridge

This is a list of Presidents of Queen's College, Cambridge. While the head of most colleges are called Masters, the head of Queens' College, Cambridge has been called the President since 1448. Below is the list of Presidents that have served the college:

Name	Dates	Notes
Andrew Dokett	1448–1484	English churchman and academic
Thomas Wilkynson	1484–1505	Vicar, Canon of Ripon
John Cardinal Fisher	1505–1508	Catholic Bishop of Rochester; executed by Henry VIII for refusing to accept him as head of the Church of England in 1535, canonised in 1935. Namesake of the Fisher Building.
Robert Bekensaw	1508–1519	English churchman and academic
John Jenyn	1519–1525	Cleric
Thomas Forman	1525–1527	Rector of All Hallows, London. Early Reformer.
William Frankleyn	1527–1529	English churchman, dean of Windsor
Simon Heynes	1529–1537	Theologian. Early reformer.
William May	1537–1553, 1559–1560	Theologian and dean of St Paul's Cathedral; his report saved the Cambridge colleges from dissolution under Henry VIII
William Glyn	1553–1557	Also Bishop of Bangor
Thomas Pecocke	1557–1559	Theologian
John Stokes	1560–1568	Also Archdeacon of York
William Chaderton	1568–1579	Later Bishop of Chester and Bishop of Lincoln
Humphrey Tyndall	1579–1614	Theologian, Dean of Ely and Archdeacon of Stafford
John Davenant	1614–1622	Later Bishop of Salisbury
John Mansell	1622–1631	Churchman, theologian, philosopher
Edward Martin	1631–1644, 1660–1662	Sent the college silver to King Charles I; imprisoned in the Tower of London by Oliver Cromwell; restored to presidency under Charles II
Herbert Palmer	1644–1647	Puritan and member of the Westminster Assembly; installed as President by Cromwell
Thomas Horton	1647–1660	Theologian; removed by the restoration of the monarchy
Anthony Sparrow	1662–1667	Later Bishop of Exeter and Bishop of Norwich
William Wells	1667–1675	Archdeacon of Colchester
Henry James	1675–1717	Theologian
John Davies	1717–1732	Philosopher, Churchman
William Sedgwick	1732–1760	Philosopher
Robert Plumptre	1760–1788	English churchman and academic
Isaac Milner	1788–1820	Mathematician, an inventor. Lucasian Professor of Mathematics
Henry Godfrey	1820–1832	English academic
Joshua King	1832–1857	Lucasian Professor of Mathematics
George Phillips	1857–1892	Author in Mathematics and Oriental languages
William Magan Campion	1892–1896	Mathematician
Herbert Ryle	1896–1901	Later Bishop of Exeter, Bishop of Winchester and Dean of Westminster
Frederic Henry Chase	1901–1906	Later Bishop of Ely
Thomas Fitzpatrick	1906–1931	Namesake of the Fitzpatrick Hall in Cripps Court
John Archibald Venn	1931–1958	British economist, son of the logician John Venn
Arthur Armitage	1958–1970	Namesake of the Armitage Room above the Fitzpatrick Hall
Sir Derek Bowett	1970–1982	International lawyer
Lord Oxburgh	1982–1988	Eminent geologist and geophysicist
Sir John Polkinghorne	1988–1996	KBE; FRS; physicist and theologian; extensive writer on science-faith relations; Templeton Prize 2002; member of General Synod
Lord Eatwell	1997 –	Previously chief economic adviser to Neil Kinnock and chairman of the British Library; Opposition Spokesman for the Treasury in the House of Lords.

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