The Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge is the head of the oldest Cambridge University college, Peterhouse. As of 2014 there have been 52 masters (counting John Cosin twice), the incumbent being Andy Parker (physicist).
List of masters #NamePortraitTerm of office 1 Gerard de Hoo occurs 1290, after 21 June 2 Robert de Winwick occurs 1333 3 Robert de Mildenhall occurs 12 May 1338 4 Roger de la Goter occurs 1338–9 and 1340. 5 Ralph de Holbeche occurs April 1344 1349 (resigned) 6 William de Whittlesea 10 September 1349 1351 (resigned) 7 Richard de Wisbeche 1351 1374 8 Thomas de Wormenhall 1374 1381–2† 9 John de Newton 3 March 1382 1397 (resigned) 10 William Cavendish 11 April 1397 1397 (resigned) 11 John de Bottlesham 27 August 1397 1400 (resigned) 12 Thomas de Castro-Bernardi 14 June 1400 occurs 1417–18, died 1420–1. 13 John Holbroke 1418? (occurs before 1421) 1436†? 14 Thomas Lane 1436? (occurs 1438) 1473† 15 John Warkworth 6 November 1473 October 1500† 16 Thomas Denman 19 November 1500 1500–1† 17 Henry Hornby 1500–1 12 February 1518† 18 William Burgoyne 18 or 19 February 1518 died before 30 January 1523 19 John Edmunds occurs from Michaelmas 1523 November 1544† 20 Ralph Aynsworth 1544 1553 (ejected) 21 Andrew Perne 4 February 1554 26 April 1589† 22 Robert Some 11 May 1589 14 January 1609† 23 John Richardson 30 January 1609 27 May 1615 (resigned) 24 Thomas Turner 15 June 1615 October 1617† 25 Leonard Mawe 16 November 1617 1625 (resigned) 26 Matthew Wren 26 July 1625 22 January 1635 (resigned) 27 John Cosin 8 February 1635 13 March 1644 (ejected) 28 Lazarus Seaman 11 April 1644 1660 (ejected) 27 John Cosin 3 August 1660 (restored) 18 October 1660 (resigned) 29 Bernard Hale 5 November 1660 29 March 1663† 30 Joseph Beaumont 24 April 1663 24 November 1699† 31 Thomas Richardson 9 December 1699 30 July 1733† 32 John Whalley 21 August 1733 12 December 1748†Brydges, Egerton, Restituta: Or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English: p.393 33 Edmund Keene 29 December 1748 25 October 1754 (resigned) 34 Edmund Law 12 November 1754 14 August 1787† 35 Francis Barnes 3 May 1788 1 May 1838† 36 William Hodgson 16 May 1838 16 October 1847† 37 Henry Wilkinson Cookson 3 or 4 November 1847 30 September 1876† 38 James Porter 28 October 1876 2 October 1900† 39 Sir Adolphus Ward 29 October 1900 19 June 1924† 40 The Lord Chalmers 5 July 1924 1931 (resigned) 41 Sir William Birdwood 20 April 1931 1938 (resigned) 42 Harold Temperley 1 July 1938 11 July 1939† 43 Paul Cairn Vellacott 29 July 1939 15 November 1954† 44 Herbert Butterfield 17 January 1955 1968 45 John Charles Burkill 1968 1973 46 Grahame Clark 1973 1980 47 The Lord Dacre of Glanton(Hugh Trevor-Roper) 1980 1987 48 Henry Chadwick 1987 1993 49 Sir John Meurig Thomas 1993 2002 50 The Lord Wilson of Tillyorn 2002 2008 51 Adrian Dixon 2008 2016 52 Bridget Kendall 2016 2023 53 Andy Parker 2023 "incumbent"
See also List of members of Peterhouse, Cambridge List of Vice-Chancellors of the University of Cambridge
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References Victoria County Histories, A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 3, The City and University of Cambridge, The colleges and halls: Peterhouse, (pp. 334-340) London, 1959.