Dean of Ripon

The Dean of Ripon is a senior cleric in the Church of England Diocese of Leeds. The dean is the head of the chapter at Ripon Cathedral – his predecessors were deans of the same church when it was previously the cathedral of the Diocese of Ripon and a minster in the diocese of York.

Deans of Ripon Minster

 * 1604–1608 Moses Fowler
 * 1608–1624 Anthony Higgin
 * 1624–1634 John Wilson
 * 1635–1645 Thomas Dod
 * 1646–1662 Vacancy – Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland
 * 1663–1672 John Wilkins
 * 1674–1675 John Neile
 * 1675–1675 Thomas Tully
 * 1675–1686 Thomas Cartwright
 * 1686–1710 Christopher Wyvill
 * 1710–1750 Heneage Dering
 * 1750–1791 Francis Wanley
 * 1791–1828 Darley Waddilove
 * 1828–1836 James Webber

Deans of Ripon Cathedral

 * 1836–1847 James Webber
 * 1847–1859 Hon Henry Erskine (son of Lord Erskine)
 * 1859–1860 Thomas Garnier
 * 1860–1868 William Goode
 * 1868–1876 Hugh Boyd M‘Neile
 * 1876–1876 Sydney Turner
 * 1876–1895 William Fremantle (uncle)
 * 1895–1914 Hon William Fremantle (nephew)
 * 1915–1940 Mansfield Owen
 * 1941–1951 Godwin Birchenough
 * 1951–1967 Llewelyn Hughes
 * 1968–1984 Edwin Le Grice
 * 1984–1995 Christopher Campling
 * 1995–2005 John Methuen
 * 2007–2013 Keith Jukes
 * 2014–present John Dobson