Dean of Lincoln

List of deans

High Medieval

• Ranulph or Ralph
• aft. 1093–bef. 1133 Simon Bloet
• –1141 Philip of Harcourt
• 1141–1179 Adelelm
• –1182 Geoffrey
• 1183–1189 Richard FitzNeal
• 1190–1195 Hamo
• –bef. 1223 Roger de Rolleston
• 1223–1239 William de Thornaco
• 1240–1245 Roger Weseham
• 1246–1254 Henry of Lexington
• 1254–1258 Richard of Gravesend
• 1260–1262 Robert de Mariscis
• 1262–1272 William of Lexington
• 1272–1274 Richard de Mepham
• 1274–1275 John de Maidenstan
• 1275–1280 Oliver Sutton
• 1280–1288 Nicholas de Hegham
• 1288–1305 Philip Willoughby

  Late Medieval

• 1305 Joceline Kirmington
• 1305–1310 Raymond de Got
• 1310–1315 Roger Martival
• 1315–1328 Henry Mansfield
• 1329–1337 Antony Bek
• 1340–1344 William Bateman
• 1344–1348 John de Ufford
• 1348–1349 Thomas Bradwardine
• 1349–1360 Simon Briselee
• 1361–? John Stretley
• 1376 a foreign Cardinal
• ?–1378 Richard Ravenser
• ?–1412 John Sheppey
• 1412–1452 John Mackworth
• 1452–1483 Robert Flemming
• 1483–1505 George Fitzhugh
• 1506–1508 Geoffrey Symeon
• 1509–1514 Thomas Wolsey
• 1514–1528 John Constable
• 1528–1538 George Heneage
• 1539–1552 John Taylor

  Early modern

• 1552–1554 Matthew Parker
• 1555–1570 Francis Mallet
• 1571–1577 John Whitgift
• 1577–1584 William Wickham
• 1585–1593 Ralph Griffin
• 1593–1598 John Rainolds
• 1598–1601 William Cole
• 1601–1613 Laurence Stanton
• 1613–1629 Roger Parker
• 1629–1649 Anthony Topham
• 1660–1681 Michael Honywood
• 1681–1695 Daniel Brevint
• 1695–1699 Samuel Fuller
• 1700–1701 Abraham Campion
• 1701–1721 Richard Willis
• 1721–1722 Robert Cannon
• 1722–1730 Edward Gee
• 1730–1743 Edward Willes
• 1744–1748 Thomas Cheney
• 1748–1756 William George
• 1756–1761 John Green
• 1762–1781 James Yorke
• Robert Richardson – poss. nominated; d. 1781
• 1782–1783 Richard Cust
• 1783–1809 Sir Richard Kaye, 6th Baronet

  Late modern

• 1809–1845 George Gordon
• 1845–1860 John Ward
• 1860–1863 Thomas Garnier
• 1864 Francis Jeune
• 1864–1872 James Jeremie
• 1872–1885 Joseph Blakesley
• 1885–1894 William Butler
• 1894–1910 Edward Wickham
• 1910–1930 Thomas Fry
• 1930–1949 Robert Mitchell
• 1949–1964 Colin Dunlop
• 1965–1968 Michael Peck
• 1969–1989 Oliver Fiennes
• 1989–1997 Brandon Jackson
• 1998–2006 Alec Knight
• 2007–2016 Philip Buckler
• 31 January22 October 2016 John Patrick, Subdean
• 2016–present Christine Wilson