List of Chancellors of the University of Cambridge

This is a list of Chancellors of the University of Cambridge, from about 1246 to the present day:

• Hugh de Hotton, c. 1246
• Reginald Gerninghall, 1256
• Stephen Hepworth, 1257
• William de Ludham, 1259
• Richard de Gedney, 1260
• Richard Dryfield, 1261
• John de Asgarby, 1267
• John Hooke, 1270-1275
• Roger de Fulbourn, 1276
• Andrew de Gisleham, 1283
• Thomas Sheringham, 1286
• Stephen Hepworth , 1287
• Ralph de Leicester, 1289-1290
• Geoffery de Pakenham, 1290-1292
• Henry de Boyton, 1293-1295
• John de Bradenham, 1295-1296
• Thomas de Sheringham , 1296-1299
• Stephen Hepworth , 1299
• Stephen Haslingfield, 1300-1303
• Stephen de Segrace, 1303-1307
• Stephen Haslingfield, 1307
• Richard de Ashton, 1315
• Roger Northburgh, 1321-1326
• Richard de Badew, 1326-1329
• Thomas de Foxton, 1329-1331
• Robert de Winwick, c. 1330
• John de Langley, 1331-1334
• Robert de Mildenhall, 1334-1335
• Henry de Herwarden, 1335-1337
• Richard Harling (or Ling), 1337-1339
• Robert de Claydon, 1340
• Thomas de Northwood, 1341
• Thomas de Northwood, 1344
• John de Crakhall, 1346-1348
• Thomas de Grantchester, 1348
• William de Lymbergh, 1348
• Richard de Wetherset (or Hetherset, Wetheringsett), 1349-1351
• Richard Harling, 1351
• Anthony of Grantchester, 1352
• William Tynkell, 1352-1359
• Thomas Sutton, 1359-1360
• Richard de Wetherset , 1360-1361
• Michael de Haynton, 1361-1362
• Michael de Causton, 1361-1366
• William de Gotham, 1366-1369
• Thomas de Stewkley, 1369
• John de Donwich, 1371
• Adam de Lakenheath, 1373-1374
• John de Donwich, 1374
• William de Gotham, 1376
• Richard Scrope, 1378-1379
• Eudo (or Guy) Zouche, 1380
• John Cavendish, 1380-1381
• Guy Zouche, 1382
• John de Bromyard, 1382-1383
• John of Neketon, 1383
• John de Burgh (or Borough), 1384
• Thomas Hetherset (or de Hethersett), 1385
• John de Burgh, 1386
• William Colvile, 1388
• Richard Dereham, 1390-1391
• William Colvile, 1391
• John de Neketon, 1392
• William Colvile, 1394
• Guy Zouche, 1396
• Richard Billingford, 1400-1402
• Richard Dereham, 1404-1408
• Richard Billingford, 1409-1413
• Stephen le Scrope, 1414
• John de Rickingale, 1415-1422
• Thomas of Cobham, 1422-1423
• Robert Fitzhugh, 1424-1426
• William Wymbell, 1426
• Marmaduke Lumley, 1427
• John Holeroke, 1429-1430
• William Lascells, 1431-1432
• Richard Billingford, 1432
• Richard Cawdray, 1433-1435
• John Langton, 1436-1445
• Nicholas Kenton, 1445-1446
• John Langton, 1447
• Robert Ascogh, 1448
• Nicholas Close, 1450-1451
• William Percy, 1451-1456
• Laurence Booth, 1456-1458
• William Wilflete (or Wolflet), 1458
• Robert Woodlark, 1459-1460
• Richard Scroope, 1461
• Robert Woodlark, 1462-1463
• John Booth, 1463-1464
• William Wilflete, 1464
• John Harrison (or Herrison), 1465-1468
• William Wilflete, 1466
• Edward Story, 1468-1469
• Thomas Rotherham (or Scot), 1469-1471
• Edward Story, 1471-1472
• Thomas Rotherham, 1473-1479
• John Boynton, 1479-1483
• Thomas Rotherham, 1483-1485
• Thomas Cosyn, 1490
• John Blythe, 1494-1496
• George Fitzhugh, 1496-1499
• Thomas Rotherham, 1499-1500
• Richard Fox, 1500
• George Fitzhugh, 1502
• Thomas Ruthall (or Rowthall), 1503
• John Fisher, 1504-1535
• Thomas Cromwell, 1535-1540
• Stephen Gardiner, 1540-1547
• Edward Seymour, 1547-1552
• John Dudley, 1552-1553
• Stephen Gardiner, 1553-1555
• Reginald Pole, 1556-1558
• William Cecil, Lord Burghley, 1559-1598
• Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, 1598-1601
• Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, 1601-1612
• Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton, 1612-1614
• Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffolk, 1614-1626
• George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, 1626-1628
• Henry Rich, Earl of Holland, 1628-1649
• Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, 1649-1651
• Oliver St John, 1651-1660
• Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, 1660-1671
• George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, 1671-1674
• James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, 1674-1682
• Christopher Monk, Duke of Albemarle, 1682-1688
• Charles Seymour, Duke of Somerset, 1689-1748
• Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle, 1748-1768
• Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton, 1768-1811
• William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester, 1811-1834
• John Jeffreys Pratt, Marquis Camden, 1834-1840
• Hugh Percy, Duke of Northumberland, 1840-1847
• Prince Albert, The Prince Consort, 1847-1861
• William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire, 1861-1891
• Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire, 1892-1908
• John William Strutt, Baron Rayleigh, 1908-1919
• Arthur James Balfour, Earl of Balfour, 1919-1930
• Stanley Baldwin, Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, 1930-1947
• Jan Christian Smuts, 1948-1950
• Arthur William Tedder, Baron Tedder, 1950-1967
• Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1967-1976
• Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 1976-

Taken from the Victoria County History.