List of principals of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford

The head of Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, is the principal. The current principal is Professor Christine Gerrard, since October 2025.

Name Birth Death Principalbetween NotesDame Elizabeth Wordsworth 1840 1932 1879 – 1909 Novelist and founding principal, also the founder of St Hugh's CollegeHenrietta Jex-Blake 1869 1953 1909 – 1921Violinist and school headmistress prior to joining LMHLynda Grier 1880 1967 1921 – 1945EconomistDame Lucy Sutherland 1903 1980 1945 – 1971 HistorianSally Chilver 1914 2014 1971 – 1979 Historian, political scientist and anthropologistDuncan Stewart 1930 1996 1979 – 1995 Fellow of Wadham College and university administratorSir Brian Fall 1937 1995–2002 DiplomatDame Frances Lannon 1945 2002–2015HistorianAlan Rusbridger 1953 2015–2021 Journalist and newspaper editorChristine Gerrard 1959 2021–2022 Interim Principal; Professor of English Literature Stephen Blyth 1967 2022–2025 Professor of the Practice of Statistics at Harvard UniversityChristine Gerrard 1959 2025- Professor of English Literature

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