The Dean of Windsor is the spiritual head of the canons of St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, England. The dean chairs meetings of the Chapter of Canons as primus inter pares. The post of Dean of Wolverhampton was assimilated to the deanery of Windsor, around 1480, until 1846.
List of deans
Late medieval
1348 John de la Chambre
1349 William Mugge
1381 Walter Almaly
1389 Thomas Butiller
1402 Richard Kingston
1419 John Arundel
1454 Thomas Manning
1461 John Faulkes (Vaux) 1471 William Morland 1471 John Davyson 1473 William Dudley 1476 Peter Courtenay 1478 Richard Beauchamp 1481 Thomas Danett 1483 William Beverley 1485 John Davyson 1485 John Morgan 1496 Christopher Urswick
Early modern
1505 Christopher Bainbridge
1507 Thomas Hobbs
1509 Nicholas West
1515 John Vesey [alias Harman]
1519 John Clerk
1523 Richard Sampson
1536 William Franklyn
1553 Owen Oglethorpe
1556 Hugh Weston
1558 John Boxall (deprived) 1560 George Carew 1572 William Day 1596 Robert Bennet 1603 Giles Thomson 1612 Anthony Maxey 1618 Marco Antonio de Dominis 1622 Henry Beaumont 1627 Matthew Wren 1635 Christopher Wren 1659 Edward Hyde [not installed] 1660 Bruno Ryves 1677 John Durell 1683 Francis Turner 1684 Gregory Hascard 1709 Thomas Manningham 1709 John Robinson
1714 The Lord Willoughby de Broke
1729 Peniston Booth
1765 The Hon Frederick Keppel
1778 The Hon John Harley
1788 John Douglas
1791 The Hon James Cornwallis
1794 Charles Manners-Sutton
Late modern
1805–1816 Edward Legge
1816–1846 Henry Hobart
1846–1854 George Neville-Grenville
1854–1882 Gerald Wellesley
1882–1884 George Connor
1884–1891 Randall Davidson
1891–1917 Philip Eliot
1917–1944 Albert Baillie
1944–1962 Eric Hamilton
1962–1971 Robin Woods
1971–1976 Launcelot Fleming
1976–1989 Michael Mann
1989–1997 Patrick Mitchell
1998–2023 David Conner
November 2023 onwards Christopher Cocksworth (announced)
See also
Dean and Canons of Windsor
References
Sources
Fasti Wyndesorienses: The deans and canons of Windsor. Historical monographs relating to St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle Volume 8. Sidney Leslie Ollard (1950) British History Online – A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 2 – Deans of Windsor