List of Wardens of New College, Oxford

New College, Oxford

This is a list of the Wardens of New College, Oxford. The Warden is the college's principal, responsible for its academic leadership, chairing its governing body, and representing it in the outside world.

• 1379–1389: Nicholas Wykeham^[1]
• 1389–1396: Thomas Cranley^[1]
• 1396–1403: Richard Malford^[1]
• 1403–1429: John Bowke^[1] or Bouke^[2]
• 1429–1435: William Estcourt^[1]
• 1435–1454: Nicholas Ossulbury^[1]
• 1454–1475: Thomas Chaundler^[1][3]
• 1475–1494: Walter Hyll^[1]
• 1494–1520: William Porter^[1]
• 1520–1521: John Rede^[1]
• 1521–1526: John Young^[1]
• 1526–1542: John London^[1][4]
• 1542–1551: Henry Cole^[1][5]
  • In 1547, Thomas Harding was named Warden by King Edward VI^[6]
• 1551–1553: Ralph Skinner^[1]
• 1553–1573: Thomas Whyte, or White^[1][7]
  • In 1556, John Harpsfield was elected Warden but did not assume the office.^[8]
• 1573–1599: Martin Culpepper^[1]
• 1599–1613: George Ryves^[1]
• 1613–1617: Arthur Lake^[1][9]
• 1617–1647: Robert Pinck^[1][10]
• 1647–1648: Henry Stringer^[1]
• 1649–1658: George Marshall (intruded by the Parliamentary Commissioners)^[1]
• 1658–1675: Michael Woodward^[1]
• 1675–1679: John Nicholas ^[1]
• 1679–1701: Henry Beeston^[1]
• 1701–1703: Richard Traffles^[1]
• 1703–1712: Thomas Brathwait^[1]
• 1712–1720: John Cobb^[1]
• 1720–1724: John Dobson^[1]
• 1725–1730: Henry Bigg^[1]
• 1730–1740: John Coxed^[1]
• 1740–1764: John Purnell^[1]
• 1764–1768: Thomas Hayward^[1]
• 1768–1794: John Oglander^[1]
• 1794–1822: Samuel Gauntlett^[1]
• 1822–1840: Philip Nicholas Shuttleworth^[1][11]
• 1840–1860: Rev. David Williams^[1][12]
• 1860–1903: James Edwards Sewell^[1][13]
• 1903–1924: William Archibald Spooner^[1][14]
• 1925–1940: Herbert Fisher^[1][15]
• 1944–1958: Alic Halford Smith^[1][16][17]
• 1958–1976: Sir William Hayter^[18]
• 1976–1985: Arthur Hafford Cooke^[19]
• 1985–1996: Harvey McGregor QC^[20][21]
• 1996–2009: Alan Ryan^[22]
• 2009–: Sir Curtis Price^[23]

Notes

1. 'New College', in A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3: The University of Oxford (1954), pp. 144-162 online at british-history.ac.uk, accessed 26 August 2008.
2. Plea rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; National Archives; CP 40 / 647; http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT1/H6/CP40no647/aCP40no647fronts/IMG_0007.htm; third entry, as "Magr' Johes Bouke, custos collegij vocat Seint Marie College of Wynchestre in Oxon"
3. DNB: Chandler, Thomas (c. 1418-1490) dean of Hereford; educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford; fellow, 1437; MA; proctor, 1444; BD, 1450; warden of Winchester College, 1460, and of New College, 1461; BCanL, 1451; chancellor of Wells Cathedral 1452; DD and warden of New College, 1455-75; chancellor of Oxford University, 1457-61 and 1472-9, and vice-chancellor, 1463-7 f prebendary of York, St Paul's, Southwell, and Hereford; dean of Hereford, 1482.
4. DNB:London, John (1486?-1543), visitor of monasteries; educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford; fellow of New College, 1505-18; D.O.L. and prebendary of York, 1519; treasurer of Lincoln Cathedral, 1522: warden of New College, 1526; attached himself to Cromwell; a commissioner for the visitation of monasteries, 1535-38; after Cromwell's death (1540) attached himself to Stephen Gardiner, and became canon of Windsor; convicted of perjury, stripped of his dignities, and committed to prison, where he died.
5. DNB: Cole, Henry (1500-1580), dean of St Paul's ; educated at Winchester; fellow of New College, Oxford, 1521-40, and warden, 1542-51; BCL, 1530; DCL, 1540; DD, 1554; studied in Padua and Paris; lectured on civil law in Oxford; submitted to the Reformation; prebendary of Sarum, 1539; advocate of the arches and prebendary of St Paul's, 1540; rector of Chelmsford, Essex, 1540-8, and of Newton Longueyille, Buckinghamshire, 1545-52; joined Roman catholic party at Mary's accession; archdeacon of Ely, 1553-6; canon of Westminster and provost of Eton, 1564-69; held disputation with Cranmer at Oxford, 1554; appointed to preach at Cranmer's execution, 1556: one of Cardinal Pole's commissioners to visit Oxford University, 1556, and Cambridge, 1567; dean of St Paul's, 1556-59; vicar-general of the archbishop of Canterbury, 1557-58; sent to Ireland to extirpate protestantism, 1568; one of the eight Romanist disputants at Westminster Abbey, 1559; imprisoned, from 1560 to c. 1579, d. 1580
6. DNB: Thomas Harding (1516-1572) educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford; fellow of New College, 1536; MA, 1542; Hebrew professor and chaplain to Henry Grey, marquis of Dorchester, afterwards Duke of Suffolk; named Warden of New College by Edward VI.
7. DNB: White, Thomas (1514–1588).
8. William Wizeman, "Harpsfield, John (1516–1578)," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
9. DNB: Lake, Arthur (1569-1626), bishop of Bath and Wells; brother of Sir Thomas Lake; educated at Winchester: fellow of New College, Oxford, 1589; MA, 1696; master of St Cross Hospital, Winchester, 1603; DD, 1606; dean of Worcester, 1608; warden of New College, 1613; vice-chancellor of Oxford and bishop of Bath and Wells, 1616-36.
10. Hegarty, A. J., 'Pinck, Robert (bap. 1573, d. 1647)', in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edition, January 2008 (subscription required): Pinck, Robert, accessed 26 August 2008.
11. DNB: Shuttleworth, Philip Nicholas (1782-1842), bishop of Chichester; educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford; MA, 1811; DD, 1822; warden of New College, Oxford, 1822-40, and bishop of Chichester, 1840-42
12. Born 15 October 1786, at Lasham, Hampshire, he died 22 March 1860 at New College. He was previously Master of Winchester College and was Vice Chancellor of the University, 1856-1858.
13. SEWELL, Rev. James Edwards, in Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2007; online edition by Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 26 August 2008 (subscription required).
14. SPOONER, Rev. William Archibald, in Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2007; online edition by Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 26 August 2008 (subscription required).
15. FISHER, Rt. Hon. Herbert Albert Laurens, in Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2007; online edition by Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 26 August 2008 (subscription required).
16. Smith, Alic Halford, in Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2007; online edition by Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 26 August 2008 (subscription required).
17. Smith, Alic Halford at economia.unipv.it, accessed 26 August 2008
18. Ireland, George, in The Independent (London), dated March 30, 1995, online at findarticles.com, accessed 22 July 2008.
19. COOKE, Dr Arthur Hafford, in Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2007; online edition by Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 26 August 2008 (subscription required)
20. CV of Harvey McGregor QC at hailshamchambers.com, accessed 22 July 2008.
21. 'McGREGOR, Harvey', in Who's Who 2008, A & C Black, 2008, online edition by Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 26 August 2008 (subscription required).
22. RYAN, Prof. Alan James, in Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2007; online edition by Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 26 August 2008 (subscription required)
23. New Warden for New College, news release dated 10 June 2008.