Dean of Peterborough

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The nave of Peterborough Cathedral

The Dean of Peterborough is the head of the chapter at Peterborough Cathedral. On the Dissolution of Peterborough Abbey in 1539 and the abbey-church's refoundation as a cathedral for the new bishop and diocese of Peterborough, care for the abbey/cathedral church passed from an abbot to a dean. The current dean is Charles Taylor.

List of deans

Early modern

• 1541–1542 Francis Alree or Abree alias Leycester

(last prior of St Andrew's Priory, Northampton)

• 1543–1549 Gerard Carleton
• 1549–1557 James Curthoppe
• 1557–1559 John Boxall (deprived)
• 1560–1583 William Latymer
• 1583–1589 Richard Fletcher
• 1590–1597 Thomas Nevile
• 1597–1607 John Palmer
• 1607–1612 Richard Clayton
• 1612–1617 George Meriton
• 1617–1622 Henry Beaumont (later dean of Windsor)
• 1622–1630 William Piers
• 1630–1639 John Towers
• 1639–1640 Thomas Jackson
• 1640–1660 John Cosin
• 1661–1664 Edward Rainbowe
• 1664–1679 James Duport
• 1679–1689 Simon Patrick
• 1689–1691 Richard Kidder
• 1691–1707 Samuel Freeman
• 1707–1718 White Kennett
• 1718–1721 Richard Reynolds
• 1721–1722 Edward Gee

• 1722–1725 John Mandeville
• 1725–1740 Francis Lockier
• 1740–1744 John Thomas
• 1744–1764 Robert Lamb
• 1764–1791 Charles Tarrant
• 1791–1792 Charles Manners-Sutton
• 1792–1797 Peter Peckard

Late modern

• 1797–1822 Thomas Kipling
• 1822–1830 James Monk
• 1830–1842 Thomas Turton
• 1842–1853 George Butler
• 1853–1878 Augustus Saunders (previously Headmaster of Charterhouse School)
• 1878–1890 John Perowne
• 1891–1892 Marsham Argles
• 1893–1901 William Ingram
• 1901–1908 William Barlow
• 1908–1928 Arnold Page
• 1928–1942 James Simpson
• 1943–1965 Noel Christopherson
• 1966–1980 Dick Wingfield-Digby
• 1981–1992 Randolph Wise
• 1992–31 March 2006 Michael Bunker
• 2006–present Charles Taylor

Sources

• British History Online – Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857 – Deans of Peterborough
• Peterborough City Council – Peterborough abbey (Peterborough Cathedral)
• British History Online – Houses of Benedictine monks: The abbey of Peterborough – A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 2 (1906), pp. 83–95. Accessed 29 May 2007.