The head of the Queen's College, Oxford, is the Provost. The current Provost is Paul Johnson.
Name From To Notes Robert de Eglesfield 1341 1349 Founding provost William de Muskham 1349 1350 John de Hotham 1350 1361 Henry Whitfield 1361 1377 Thomas de Carlisle 1377 1404 Roger Whelpdale 1404 1420 Walter Bell 1420 1426 Roland Byres 1426 1432 Thomas Eglesfield 1432 1440 William Spenser 1440 1460 John Pereson 1460 1483 Henry Bost 1483 1487 Previously Provost of Eton College Thomas Langton 1487 1496Previously Bishop of St David's; concurrently Bishop of Salisbury; subsequently Bishop of Winchester and Archbishop-elect of Canterbury Christopher Bainbridge 1496 1508 Subsequently Archbishop of York Edward Rigge 1508 1515 John Pantre 1515 1541 William Denysson 1541 1559 Hugh Hodgson 1559 1561 Thomas Francis 1561 1563 Lancelot Shaw 1563 1565 Alan Scot 1565 1575 Bartholomew Bousfield 1575 1581 Henry Robinson 1581 1598 Henry Airay 1598 1616 Barnaby Potter 1616 1626 Christopher Potter 1626 1646 Gerard Langbaine the elder 1646 1658 Thomas Barlow 1658 1675Subsequently Bishop of Lincoln Timothy Halton 1677 1704 William Lancaster 1704 1717 John Gibson 1717 1730 Joseph Smith 1730 1756 Joseph Browne 1756 1767 Thomas Fothergill 1767 1796 Septimus Collinson 1796 1827 John Fox 1827 1855 William Thomson 1855 1862 Subsequently Archbishop of York William Jackson 1862 1878 John Richard Magrath 1878 1930 E. M. Walker 1930 1933 B. H. Streeter 1933 1937 R. H. Hodgkin 1937 1946 Lord Franks 1946 1948 John Walter Jones 1948 1962 Lord Florey 1962 1968 Lord Blake 1968 1987 John Moffatt 1987 1993 Geoffrey Marshall 1993 1999 Sir Alan Budd 1999 2008 Paul Madden 2008 2019 Claire Craig 2019 2025 Paul Johnson 2025
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