The following is a list of rectors of Exeter College, Oxford.

Rectors of Exeter College

1318–1566

1566–1887 John Neale (Whitsuntide 1566 – deprived 12 October 1570) Robert Newton (31 October 1570 – resigned 4 October 1578 (see above)) Thomas Glasier (21 October 1578 – d. 9 March 1592) Thomas Holland (24 April 1592 – d. 17 March 1612) John Prideaux (4 April 1612 – resigned 3 August 1642) George Hakewill (23 August 1642 – d. 2 April 1649) John Conant (7 June 1649 – deprived 1 September 1662) Joseph Maynard (18 September 1662 – resigned 30 April 1666) Arthur Bury (27 May 1666 – deprived 26 July 1690) William Paynter (15 August 1690 –d. 18 February 1716) Mathew Hole (8 March 1716 – d. 19 July 1730) John Conybeare (6 August 1730 – resigned 29 January 1733) Joseph Atwell (17 February 1733 – resigned 3 March 1737) James Edgcumbe (11 April 1737 – d. 16 May 1750) Francis Webber (5 June 1750 – d. 29 September 1771) Thomas Bray (22 October 1771 – d. 28 March 1785) Thomas Stinton (15 April 1785 – d. 6 July 1787) Henry Richards (23 July 1797 – d. 19 December 1807) John Cole (7 January 1808 – d. 13 October 1819) John Collier Jones (6 November 1819 – d. 7 August 1838) Joseph Loscombe Richards (1 September 1838 – d. 27 February 1854) John Prideaux Lightfoot (18 March 1854 – d. 23 March 1887)

1887–present William Jackson Jr (15 April 1887 – resigned 25 March 1913) Lewis Richard Farnell (15 April 1913 – resigned 19 September 1928) Robert Ranulph Marett (10 October 1928 – d. 18 February 1943) Eric Arthur Barber (26 September 1943 – 1956) Sir Kenneth Clinton Wheare (1956 – resigned 1972) Greig Barr (1972 – resigned 1982) (d. 23 April 2008) The Lord Crowther-Hunt (1982 – d. 16 February 1987) Sir Richard Norman (1987 – d. 6 June 1993) Marilyn Butler (1993–2004) Dame Frances Cairncross (2004–2014) Sir Rick Trainor (2014–2024) Dr Andrew Roe (October 2024)

References 'Exeter College', A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3: The University of Oxford (1954), pp. 107–118. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63875. Date accessed: 25 February 2008.