Bishops of Peterborough

                died
1
   1541-1556   John Chambers       1556
2
   1557-1559   David Poole   deposed 1559    
3
   1560-1584   Edmund Scambler   chaplain to Archbishop Parker
translated to Norwich 1584		    
4
   1585-1600   Richard Howland   master of St John's College, Cambridge   1600
5
   1601-1630   Thomas Dove   chaplain of Queen Elizabeth's   1630
6
   1630-1632   William Piers   translated to Bath and Wells 1632    
7
   1633-1634   Augustine Lindsell   Dean of Lichfield
translated to Hereford 1634		    
8
   1634-1638   Francis Dee   Dean of Chichester   1638
9
   1639-1649   John Towers   Dean of Peterborough   1649
    1649-1660   see vacant        
10
   1660-1663   Benjamin Laney   Dean of Rochester    
11
   1663-1679   Joseph Henshaw   Dean of chichester   1679
12
   1679-1685   William Lloyd   Bishop of Llandaff
translated to Norwich 1685		   1710
13
   1685-1690   Thomas White   deprived 1690   1698
14
   1691-1718   Richard Cumberland       1718
15
   1718-1728   White Kennett   Dean of Peterborough   1728
16
   1729-1747   Robert Clavering   Bishop of Llandaff   1747
17
   1747-1757   John Thomas   translated to Salisbury 1757    
18
   1757-1764   Richard Terrick   translated to London 1764    
19
   1764-1769   Robert Lamb       1769
20
   1769-1794   John Hinchcliffe   Master of Trinity College, Cambridge until 1789
Dean of Durham from 1789		   1794
21
   1794-1813   Spencer Madan   Bishop of Bristol   1813
22
   1813-1819   John Parsons   Master of Balliol College, Oxford   1819
23
   1819-1839   Herbert Marsh   Bishop of Llandaff   1839
24
   1839-1864   George Davys       1864
25
   1864-1868   Francis Jeune       1868
26
   1868-1891   William Magee   translated to York 1891    
27
   1891-1897   Mandell Creighton   translated to London 1897    
28
   1897-1916   Edward Carr Glyn       1928
29
   1916-1923   Frank Theodore Woods   translated to Winchester 1923    
30
   1924-1927   Cyril Charles Bowman Bardsley   translated to Leicester 1927    
31
   1927-1949   Claude Martin Blagden       1952
32
   1949-1956   Spencer Leeson       1956
33
   1956-1961   Robert Stopford   Bishop of Fulham
translated to London 1961		    
34
   1961-1972   Cyril Eastaugh   Bishop of Kensington    
35
   1972-1984   Douglas Russell Feaver        
36
   1984-   William John Westwood   Bishop of Edmonton    
37
   1996-   Ian Patrick Martyn Cundy        

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this page last revised 10 April 2005
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