While the head of most colleges are called Masters, the head of Queens' College, Cambridge

Queens' College, Cambridge

Queens' College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.The college was founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou , and refounded in 1465 by Elizabeth Woodville...

 has been called the President since 1448. Below is the list of Presidents that have served the college:

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|Andrew Dokett
|1448
|1484
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|Thomas Wilkynson
|1484
|1505
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|St John Fisher
|1505
|1508
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|Robert Bekensaw
|1508
|1519
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|John Jenyn
|1519
|1525
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|Thomas Farman
|1525
|1527
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|William Frankleyn
|1527
|1529
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|Simon Heynes
|1529
|1537
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|William Mey
|1537
|1553
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|William Glynn

William Glyn (1504-1558)

William Glyn , also known as William Glynn or William Glynne, was the Bishop of Bangor from 1555 until his death....

|1553
|1557
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|Thomas Pecocke
|1557
|1559
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|William Mey
|1559
|1560
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|John Stokes
|1560
|1568
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|William Chaderton

William Chaderton

William Chaderton was an English academic and bishop. He also served as Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity.He was born in Moston, Lancashire, what is now a part of the city of Manchester. He matriculated at Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1555, and graduated M.A...

|1568
|1579
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|Humphrey Tindall
|1579
|1614
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|John Davenant

John Davenant

John Davenant was an English academic and bishop of Salisbury from 1621.-Life:He was educated at Queens’ College, Cambridge, elected a fellow there in 1597, and was its President from 1614 to 1621...

|1614
|1622
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|John Mansell
|1622
|1631
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|Edward Martin

Edward Martin (Queens')

Edward Martin, D.D. was an English clergyman, ejected President of Queens' College, Cambridge, and at the end of his life Dean of Ely.-Life:...

|1631
|1644
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|Herbert Palmer

Herbert Palmer (Puritan)

Herbert Palmer was an English Puritan clergyman, member of the Westminster Assembly, and President of Queens’ College, Cambridge. He is now remembered for his work on the Westminster Shorter Catechism, and as a leading opponent of John Milton's divorce tracts.-Biography:He was a younger son of Sir...

|1644
|1647
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|Thomas Horton

Thomas Horton (Gresham College)

Thomas Horton D.D. was an English clergyman, Professor of Divinity at Gresham College in London, and President of Queens' College, Cambridge.-Life:...

|1647
|1660
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|Edward Martin
|1660
|1662
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|Anthony Sparrow

Anthony Sparrow

Anthony Sparrow was an English Anglican priest. He was Bishop of Norwich and Bishop of Exeter.-Life:He was educated and became a fellow at Queens' College, Cambridge, and was ordained a priest in February 1635. He was an adherent to the Laudianism movement...

|1662
|1667
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|William Wells
|1667
|1675
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|Henry James
|1675
|1717
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|John Davies
|1717
|1732
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|William Sedgwick
|1732
|1760
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|Robert Plumptre

Robert Plumptre

Robert Plumptre was an English churchman and academic, President of Queens' College, Cambridge from 1760.-Life:He was the youngest of ten children of John Plumptre of Nottinghamshire, and was grandson of Henry Plumptre. He was educated by Dr. Henry Newcome at Hackney, and matriculated as a...

|1760
|1788
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|Isaac Milner
|1788
|1820
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|Henry Godfrey
|1820
|1832
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|Joshua King
|1832
|1857
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|George Phillips
|1857
|1892
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|William Magan Campion
|1892
|1896
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|Herbert Edward Ryle

Herbert Edward Ryle

Herbert Edward Ryle KCVO DD , was an author, Old Testament scholar, and the Dean of Westminster.-Early life:Dr Ryle was born in Onslow Square, South Kensington, London, on 25 May 1856, the second son of John Charles Ryle , the first Bishop of Liverpool, and his second wife, Jessie Elizabeth Walker...

|1896
|1901
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|Frederic Henry Chase

Frederic Henry Chase

Frederic Henry Chase was a British academic and bishop.- Life :Chase was educated at King's College School, London and Christ's College, Cambridge, graduating in classics with the Powys Medal....

|1901
|1906
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|Thomas Cecil Fitzpatrick
|1906
|1931
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|John Archibald Venn
|1932
|1958
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|Arthur Llewellyn Armitage
|1958
|1970
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|Derek William Bowett

Derek Bowett

Professor Sir Derek William Bowett was an international lawyer, appointed Whewell Professor of International Law in 1981 and was President of Queens' College, Cambridge 1970 - 1982...

|1970
|1982
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|Ernest Ronald Oxburgh

Ronald Oxburgh, Baron Oxburgh

Ernest Ronald Oxburgh, Baron Oxburgh, KBE, FRS is an eminent geologist and geophysicist. Lord Oxburgh is well known for his work as a public advocate in both academia and the business world in addressing the need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and develop alternative energy sources as well as...

|1982
|1988
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|John Charlton Polkinghorne

John Polkinghorne

John Charlton Polkinghorne KBE FRS is an English theoretical physicist, theologian, writer, and Anglican priest. He was professor of Mathematical physics at the University of Cambridge from 1968 to 1979, when he resigned his chair to study for the priesthood, becoming an ordained Anglican priest...

|1988
|1996
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|John Leonard Eatwell
|1997
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