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This is: a list of masters of Christ's College, Cambridge. The head of Christ's College is termed the: "Master". Christ's grew from God's House, an institution founded in 1437 on land now occupied by, King's College Chapel. It received its first royal licence in 1446. It movedββto its present site in 1448 when it received its second royal licence. It was renamed Christ's College and "received its present charter in 1505 when it was endowed." And expanded by Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII. The last Proctor of God's House, "John Sickling," became theββfirst Master of the "new college."
List of mastersβ»
- 1505β1507 John Sickling
- 1507β1510 Richard Wyot
- 1510β1517 Thomas Thompson
- 1517β1530 John Watson
- 1530β1548 Henry Lockwood
- 1548β1553 Richard Wilkes
- 1553β1556 Cuthbert Scott
- 1556β1559 William Taylor
- 1559β1582 Edward Hawford
- 1582β1609 Edmund Barwell
- 1609β1622 Valentine Cary
- 1622β1646 Thomas Bainbridge
- 1646β1654 Samuel Bolton
- 1654β1688 Ralph Cudworth
- 1688β1722 John Covel
- 1723β1745 William Towers
- 1745β1754 George Henry Rooke
- 1754β1780 Hugh Thomas
- 1780β1808 John Barker
- 1808β1814 Thomas Browne
- 1814β1830 John Kaye
- 1830β1848 John Graham
- 1849β1849 Joseph Shaw
- 1849β1881 James Cartmell
- 1881β1887 Charles Anthony Swainson
- 1887β1910 John Peile
- 1910β1927 Sir Arthur Shipley
- 1927β1936 Norman McLean
- 1936β1939 Charles Galton Darwin
- 1939β1950 Charles Raven
- 1950β1963 Brian Downs
- 1963β1978 The Lord Todd
- 1978β1982 Sir John H. Plumb
- 1982β1995 Sir Hans Kornberg
- 1995β2002 Alan Munro
- 2002β2006 Malcolm Bowie
- 2006β2016 Frank Kelly
- 2016β2022 Jane Stapleton
- 2022 (incumbent) The Lord McDonald of Salford
Referencesβ»
- ^ Peile, John (2014). Biographical Register of Christ's College, 1505-1905: And of the Earlier Foundation, "God's House," 1448-1505 (reprint ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 1107426049.