List of masters of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
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The Master of Emmanuel College is the head of Emmanuel College, Cambridge and chairs the College Council and Governing Body of the college.[1]
List of masters
edit| Name | Image | Master between |
Notes | Ref(s). |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laurence Chaderton |  |
1584–1622 | Puritan divine and one of the translators of the King James Version of the Bible | |
| John Preston |  |
1622–1628 | Puritan minister | |
| William Sancroft the Elder | 1628–1637 | |||
| Richard Holdsworth | 1637–1644 | Member of the Westminster Assembly, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, for two years, and Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity | ||
| Thomas Hill | 1644–1645 | Puritan divine, Member of the Westminster Assembly, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1645–1647) | ||
| Anthony Tuckney | 1645–1653 | Puritan theologian and Regius Professor of Divinity | ||
| William Dillingham | 1653–1662 | Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1659-1660) | ||
| William Sancroft |  |
1662–1665 | 79th Archbishop of Canterbury, imprisoned in 1688 for seditious libel against King James II | |
| John Breton |  |
1665–1676 | Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1670–71) | |
| Thomas Holbech | 1676–1680 | Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1677-1678) | ||
| John Balderston |  |
1680–1719 | Twice vice-chancellor of the university | [2] |
| William Savage | 1719–1736 | Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1724-1725) | ||
| William Richardson |  |
1736–1775 | Academic and antiquary | |
| Richard Farmer |  |
1775–1797 | Shakespearean scholar, twice vice-chancellor of the university | |
| Robert Cory | 1797–1835 | Priest, Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy, twice vice-chancellor of the university | ||
| George Archdall-Gratwicke | 1835–1871 | Vice-Chancellor of the university in 1835 and 1841 | ||
| Samuel Phear |  |
1871–1895 | Vice-Chancellor of the university (1874-1876) | |
| William Chawner | 1895–1911 | Educational reformer and the first layman to be appointed Master | ||
| Peter Giles | 1911–1935 | Scottish philologist, Vice-Chancellor of the university (1919-1920) | ||
| Thomas Hele | 1935–1951 | Biochemist, Vice-Chancellor of the university (1943-1945) | ||
| Edward Welbourne | 1951–1964 | Received the Military Cross serving in France in World War I | ||
| Sir Gordon Sutherland | 1964–1977 | Scottish physicist, Director of the National Physical Laboratory (1956–1964) | [3] | |
| Derek Brewer | 1977–1990 | Welsh medieval scholar, studied Chaucer | ||
| Charles Peter Wroth | 1990–1990 | Civil engineer, led the design and construction of the Hammersmith flyover | ||
| The Lord St John of Fawsley | 1991–1996 | British Conservative politician, author and barrister. Member of Parliament for Chelmsford (1964 to 1987) and life peer. Chairman of the Royal Fine Art Commission. | [4] | |
| John Ffowcs Williams | 1996–2002 | Welsh engineer, known for his contributions to aeroacoustics | [5] | |
| The Lord Wilson of Dinton |  |
2002–2012 | Welsh civil servant, member of the House of Lords and former Cabinet Secretary | |
| Dame Fiona Reynolds | 2012–2021 | Former civil servant, director general of the National Trust and chair of the National Audit Office | ||
| Lieutenant General Douglas Chalmers |  |
2021- | Former British Army officer who served as Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Military Strategy & Operations) from 2018 to 2021 | [6] |
References
edit- ↑ "College Masters". Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Retrieved 25 August 2013.
- ↑ "A History of Emmanuel College, Cambridge" Sarah Bendall,S; Brooke,C; Collinson, P: Woodbridge, Boydell, 2000 ISBN 0851153933
- ↑ Sheppard, N. (1982). "Gordon Brims Black McIvor Sutherland. 8 April 1907 – 27 June 1980". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 28: 589–626. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1982.0023. JSTOR 769912.
- ↑ "Obituary: Lord St John of Fawsley". The Daily Telegraph. 5 March 2012. Archived from the original on 27 August 2012.
- ↑ "Ffowcs Williams, Prof. John Eirwyn". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ↑ "Doug Chalmers elected as the next Master of Emmanuel". Emmanuel College. University of Cambridge. 11 February 2021.
- Sources
- Roach, J. P. C. (1959). "A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 3: The City and University of Cambridge". British History Online. Archived from the original on 19 October 2012.