High Medieval[edit]

• 1140 Ralph
• 1150 Geoffrey
• 1157 Ralph
• 1173 Geoffrey
• c. 1187 Richard
• 1202 Hugh de Breusa
• 1207–1216 Hugh de Mapenor
• 1216 Henry
• 1218–1231 Thomas de Bosebir
• 1231–1234 Ralph de Maidstone
• 1234–? Stephen Thorne
• 1247–1262 Ancelin or Anselm
• 1271–1278 Giles de Avenbury
• 1278–1320 Jean de Aigueblanche

Late Medieval[edit]

• 1320–1352 Stephen de Ledebury
• 1352–1361 Thomas Trilleck
• 1361 William de Feriby
• 1363–? William Bermingham
• ?–1380 John de Middleton
• 1380–1393 John Harold
• 1393–1407 John Prophet
• 1407–1417 Thomas Felde
• 1422 John Bagshaw
• ?–1434 John Stanwey
• 1434–1445 Henry Shelford
• 1446–1462 John Berew

• 1463–1481 Richard Pede
• 1481–1490 Thomas Chaundler
• 1491–1491 Oliver King
• 1491–1501 John Hervey

Early modern[edit]

• 1503–? Reginald West
• 1512–1512 Thomas Wolsey
• 1513–1529 Edmund Frowcester
• 1529–1541 Gamaliel Clifton
• 1541–1555 Hugh Curwen
• 1558–1559 Edmund Daniel
• 1560–1576 John Ellis
• 1577–1593 John Watkins
• 1593–1607 Charles Langford
• 1607–1616 Edward Doughtie
• 1616–1617 Richard Montagu

(exchanged with Lloyd)

• 1617 Oliver Lloyd
• 1617–1624 Silvanus Griffiths
• 1623–1631 Daniel Price
• 1631–1636 John Richardson
• 1637–1643 Jonathan Browne
• 1644–1661 Herbert Croft
• 1661–1672 Thomas Hodges
• 1672–1692 George Benson
• 1692–1706 John Tyler

(afterwards Bishop of Llandaff 1706)

• 1706 Robert Clavering

• 1729–1736 John Harris
• 1736–1748 Edward Cresset

(afterwards Bishop of Llandaff 1748)

• 1749 Edmund Castle
• 1750–1756 John Egerton
• 1756 Francis Webber
• Nathan Wetherell

Late modern[edit]

• 1808 William Leigh
• 1809-1820 George Gretton
• 1820 Robert Carr
• 1827 Edward Mellish
• 1831 Edward Grey
• 1832 John Merewether
• 1850–1867 Richard Dawes
• 1867–1894 George Herbert
• 1894–1919 Wentworth Leigh
• 1919–1946 Reginald Waterfield
• 1947–1961 Hedley Burrows
• 1961–1968 Robert Price
• 1969–1981 Norman Rathbone
• 1982–1992 Peter Haynes
• 1993–2000 Robert Willis
• 2002 – 28 February 2021 Michael Tavinor^[1]
• 1 March 2021 – October 2021 Andrew Piper, Precentor and Acting Dean^[2]
• 2 October 2021 – present:^[3] Sarah Brown^[4]