Dean and Chapter of Ripon



The Dean and Chapter of Ripon Cathedral are the ecclesiastical governing body of Ripon Cathedral. They consist of the dean and several canons meeting in chapter and are also (less frequently) known as the Dean and Canons of Ripon.

Ripon Cathedral was a collegiate church until 1547 when it was dissolved. Collegiate status was restored on 2 August 1604 when King James I of England issued a Charter of Restoration. The Charter made Ripon a collegiate church with a Dean and 6 canons.

In 1836 the new bishopric of Ripon was founded, and the number of prebendaries reduced, after the vacation of two of the stalls, to four residentiary canons.

Dean of Ripon
See Dean of Ripon.

1st Prebend
• Christopher Lyndall 1604 – 1623

• John Wilson 1623

• John Bramhall 1623 – 1624

• Michael Wandesford 1624 – 1637

• Richard Moyle 1637

• Henry Greswold 1660 - 1681

• George Tullie 1681 - 1691

• John Blower 1691 – 1722

• Joseph Cookson 1722 – 1743

• John Dering 1743 – 1746

• William Lamplugh 1746 – 1776

• Thomas Collins 1776 – 1788

• John Preston 1778 – 1808

• George Allanson 1808 – 1827

• Pennyman Warton Worsley 1827 - 1879

• W Wynfer Gibbon 1879 – 1905

• Lucius Frederick Moses Bottomley Smith 1905 – 1922

• Arthur H Watson 1922 – 1937

• Claude C Thornton 1937 – 1940

• D.M.M. Bartlett 1940 – 1961

• C.B. Sampson 1961 – 1966

• Walter Dillam 1973 – 1980

• David G Ford 1980 – 1996

• Keith Punshon 1996 – 2014

2nd Prebend
• William Crashaw 1604 – 1626

• William Ellis 1626 – 1637

• William Foster 1637 – 1639

• Thomas Astell 1639

• Peter Vivian 1660 - 1667

• Edmund Diggle 1667 - 1688

• William Bridges 1688 - 1696

• George Halley 1696 - 1708

• Jacob Talbot 1708

• Robert Weelkes 1708 – 1717

• William Elsley 1717 – 1723

• Richard Kay 1723 – 1743

• Henry Cooke 1743 – 1750

• Henry Goodwicke 1750 – 1774

• John Scott 1774 – 1780

• Marmaduke Lawson 1780 – 1811

• W.I.D. Waddilove 1811 - 1829

• William Gray 1829 - 1863

• Samuel Holmes 1863 – 1891

• Arthur T Waugh 1891 – 1923

• I.G.W. Tuckey 1923 – 1946

• Robert L Leatherdale 1946 – 1954

• Henry B Graham 1954 – 1962

• John W Turnbull 1962 – 1976

• I P Burbridge 1976 – 1985

• Peter Jerome Marshall 1985 – 1997

• James Harold Bell 1997 – 2007

• Janet Henderson 2007 - 2012

• Elizabeth Sewell 2013 -

3rd Prebend
• William Barker 1604 – 1616

• William Cleborne 1616 - ????

• William Lloyd 1660 - 1681

• Francis Pemberton 1681 – 1701

• Stephen Penton 1701 – 1706

• Cuthbert Chambers 1706 – 1715

• Edward Trotter 1715 – 1729

• William Thompson 1729 – 1752

• Hugh Thomas 1752 – 1780

• Francis Meeke 1780 – 1792

• Ralph Worsley 1792 – 1802

• John Ellis 1802 – 1824

• Fergus Graham 1824 – 1829

• George H Webber 1829

• Lawrence Ottley 1858 – 1861

• James Atlay 1861 – 1868

• Henry M Birch 1868 – 1884

• Malcolm MacColl 1884 – 1907

• George W Garrod 1907

4th Prebend
• Robert Cook 1604 – 1624

• John Favour 1624 - ????

• John Drake 1661 – 1662

• Richard Hooke 1662 - 1689

• William Lamplugh 1689 – 1705

• Darcy Dalton 1705 – 1713

• Valentine Nalson 1713 – 1723

• John Wakefield 1723 - 1750

• John Fogg 1750 – 1774

• Cuthbert Allanson 1774 – 1780

• Robert Darley Waddilove 1780 – 1792

• Edward Carne 1792 – 1805

• Thomas Brand 1805 – 1814

• James Webber 1814 – 1828

• Robert Sutton 1828

• Charles Dodgson 1852 – 1868

• Edwards Cust 1868 – 1895

• Joseph Bardsley 1895 – 1896

• William Danks 1896 – 1908

• Henry A Hall 1908 – 1911

• I Battersby Harford 1911 – 1937

• I.M. Cunningham 1937 - 1948

• W.E. Wilkinson 1948 - 1966

• I.G.B. Ashworth 1966 – 1979

• Ronald B McFadden 1979 – 1990

• Michael R Glanville-Smith 1990 – 2008

• Paul Greenwell 2008

5th Prebend
• George Proctor 1604 – 1625

• Thomas Walker 1625 - ????

• Tobias Swinden 1661

• John Littleton 1661 – 1681

• John Milner 1681 - 1690

• Edward Morris 1690 - 1720

• Thomas Perrott 1720 – 1728

• Thomas Rudd 1728 – 1733

• John Forster 1733 – 1742

• Thomas Warwick 1742 – 1755

• Christopher Driffield 1755 – 1788

• John Holdsworth 1788 – 1800

• Peter Haddon 1800 – 1815

• William Henry Dixon 1815

6th Prebend
• William Bewe 1604 – 1613

• Edward Wright 1613 – 1615

• Mattew Levett 1615 – 1634

• Richard Marsh 1634 - ????

• George Paris 1663 - 1689

• Roger Altham 1689 – 1714

• Henry Lodge 1714 – 1717

• Marmaduke Buck 1717 – 1759

• James Wilkinson 1759 – 1805

• Thomas Trebeck 1805