List of Principals of Hertford College, Oxford

This is a list of Principals of Hertford College, Oxford, including its two predecessor institutions, Hart Hall and Magdalen Hall.

Principals of Hart Hall (1282–1740)

Principal	Date	Notes
John Moreman	1522–1527
John Whyte	1527–1535
John French	1535–1539
Roger Bromhall	1541–1543
William More	1543–?
Thomas Vyvyan	?–1548
Philip Rondell	1548–1599	first long-term Principal, establishing some independence from Exeter College
John Eveleigh	1599–1604
Theodore Price	1604–1622
Thomas Iles	1622–1633
Philip Parsons	1633–1653
Philip Stephens	1654–1660	appointed by Oliver Cromwell
Timothy Baldwyn	1660–1663
John Lamphire	1663–1688
William Thornton	1688–1707
Thomas Smith	1707–1710
Richard Newton	1710–1739	incorporated Hart Hall as Hertford College

Principals of Hertford College, first foundation (1739–1816)

Principal	Date	Notes
Richard Newton	1739–1753	formerly Principal of Hart Hall from 1710
William Sharpe	1753–1757
David Durell	1757–1775
Bernard Hodgson	1775–1805	last Principal of the first foundation
Richard Hewitt	1805–1814/1816	Vice-Principal in charge

Principals of Magdalen Hall, old site (1448–1822)

Principal	Date	Notes
John Anwykyll	1480–1488	first master of the grammar school
John Stanbridge
Richard Berne		first Principal of Magdalen Hall
Thomas Coveney	1553–1558
Adrian Hawthorne	1558–1567
Robert Lyster	1567–1602	matriculated Thomas Hobbes
James Hussey	1602–1605
John Wilkinson	1605–?	removed by Royalists
Thomas Read		Royalist appointee
John Wilkinson	?–1648	restored
Henry Wilkinson	1648–1662	removed by the Act of Uniformity
James Hyde	1662–1681
William Levet	1681–1694
Richard Adams	1694–1716
Digby Cotes	1716–1745
William Denison, the Elder	1745–1755
William Denison, the Younger	1755–1786
Matthew Lamb	1786–1788
Henry Ford	1788–1813
John Macbride	1813–1822	moved Magdalen Hall to the site of Hertford College

Principals of Magdalen Hall, new site (1822–1874)

Principal	Date	Notes
John Macbride	1822–1868	became Principal in 1813, moved Magdalen Hall to the Hertford College site
Richard Michell	1868–1874	incorporated Magdalen Hall as Hertford College

Principals of Hertford College, second foundation (1874–)

Principal	Date	Notes
Richard Michell	1874–1877	formerly Principal of Magdalen Hall from 1868
Henry Boyd	1877–1922
W. R. Buchanan-Riddell	1922–1930
C. R. M. F. Cruttwell	1930–1939
N. R. Murphy	1939–1959
W. L. Ferrar	1959–1964
Robert Hall	1964–1967
George Lindor Brown	1967–1971
Geoffrey Warnock	1971–1988
Christopher Zeeman	1988–1996
Walter Bodmer	1996–2005
John Landers	2005–2011
Will Hutton	2011–

Sources

• Goudie, Andrew, ed. (1999) [1984]. Seven Hundred Years of an Oxford College: Hertford College, 1284–1984 (2nd ed.). Hertford College, Oxford.
• Hamilton, Sidney Graves (1903). Hertford College. London: F.E. Robinson. OL 23303320M.