Dean of Westminster

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The west façade of Westminster Abbey

The Dean of Westminster is the head of the chapter at Westminster Abbey. Due to the abbey's status as a royal peculiar, the dean answers directly to the British monarch (not to the Bishop of London as ordinary, nor to the Archbishop of Canterbury as metropolitan). Initially, the office was a successor to that of Abbot of Westminster, and was for the first 10 years cathedral dean for the Diocese of Westminster. The current dean is David Hoyle.

List of deans

File:Herbert Railton The Deanery A Brief Account of Westminster Abbey 1894.jpg
The Deanery at Westminster Abbey
File:Knight Commander of the Bath neck badge, awarded to Cecil Fane de Salis (1859-1948) in 1935.jpg
Neck badge of the Order of the Bath: the Dean of Westminster is Dean of the Order of the Bath ex officio
Name Portrait Term of office
William Benson
(formerly last abbot of the Benedictine abbey) 		File:No image.svg 1540 1549<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[†]
Richard Cox File:Bp Richard Cox.jpg 1549 1553
Hugh Weston File:No image.svg 1553 1556
Vacancy (restored as Benedictine abbey)
John Feckenham, abbot 		1556 1559
William Bill File:William Bill. Line engraving by R. Grave after G. P. Harding Wellcome V0000549 (crop).jpg 1560 1561<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[†]
Gabriel Goodman File:Gabriel Goodman by GP Harding.jpg 1561 1601<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[†]
Lancelot Andrewes File:Lancelot Andrewes Pembroke.jpg 1601 1605
Richard Neile
(in commendam as Bishop of Rochester from 1608) 		File:Richard Neile portrait.jpg 1605 1610
George Montaigne File:George Mountaigne DD.jpg 1610 1617
Robert Tounson File:No image.svg 1617 1620
John Williams
(in commendam as Bishop of Lincoln 1621–41,
as Archbishop of York from 1641) 		File:Abp John Williams by Gilbert Jackson.jpg 1620 1644
Richard Steward
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Vacancy (English Interregnum) 1651 1660
John Earle File:John Earle from NPG.jpg 1660 1662
John Dolben
(in commendam as Bishop of Rochester from 1666[R 1]) 		File:ArchbishopDolben.jpg 1662 1683
Thomas Sprat
(in commendam as Bishop of Rochester from 1684[R 1]) 		File:Thomas Sprat by Michael Dahl.jpg 1683 1713<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[†]
Francis Atterbury
(in commendam as Bishop of Rochester[R 1]) 		File:Francis Atterbury by Godfrey Kneller.jpg 1713 1723
Samuel Bradford
(in commendam as Bishop of Rochester[R 1]) 		File:Samuel Bradford.jpg 1723 1731<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[†]
Joseph Wilcocks
(in commendam as Bishop of Rochester[R 1]) 		File:Joseph Wilcocks by GP Harding.jpg 1731 1756<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[†]
Zachary Pearce
(in commendam as Bishop of Rochester[R 1]) 		File:Bp Zachary Pearce by Edward Penny.jpg 1756 1768
John Thomas
(in commendam as Bishop of Rochester from 1774[R 1]) 		File:John Thomas, Bishop of Rochester, by Joshua Reynolds.jpg 1768 1793<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[†]
Samuel Horsley
(in commendam as Bishop of Rochester[R 1]) 		File:Samuel Horsley by Mrs Barou.jpg 1793 1802
William Vincent File:William Vincent by GP Harding after William Owen.jpg 1802 1815<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[†]
John Ireland File:John Ireland.jpg 1816 1842<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[†]
Thomas Turton File:Thomas Turton by HW Pickersgill.jpg 1842 1845
Samuel Wilberforce File:Samuel Wilberforce2.jpg March–October 1845
William Buckland File:William Buckland detail.png 1845 1856<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[†]
Richard Chenevix Trench File:Drawing of Richard Chenevix Trench.jpg 1856 1864
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley File:Arthur Penrhyn Stanley by John Watkins.jpg 1864 1881<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[†]
George Granville Bradley File:George Granville Bradley by SA Walker.jpg 1881 1902
Armitage Robinson File:No image.svg 1902[1] 1911
Herbert Edward Ryle File:Dr HE Ryle NPG.jpg 1911 1925<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[†]
William Foxley Norris File:William Foxley Norris by Ernest Moore.jpg 1925 1937<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[†]
Paul de Labilliere File:No image.svg 1938 1946<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[†]
Alan Don File:Alan Don in 1952.jpg 1946 1959
Eric Abbott 1959 1974
Edward Carpenter File:No image.svg 1974 1985
Michael Mayne File:No image.svg 1986 1996
Wesley Carr File:No image.svg 1997 2006
John Hall File:Very Reverend Dr John Hall (18228068808) (cropped).jpg 2006[2] 2019
David Hoyle File:Consecrations of Selby, Whitby, and Sodor & Man October 2024 (54059458366) (David Hoyle cropped).jpg 2019 Present

Notes

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h In 1666, John Dolben was additionally appointed Bishop of Rochester, retaining the Deanery of Westminster in commendam. His successor as Dean, Thomas Sprat, was additionally appointed to Rochester in 1684. From then until 1802, it was customary for the Bishop of Rochester to hold the Deanery of Westminster in commendam. These eight deans held both offices concurrently.
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