Dean of Peterborough

Early modern

• 1541–1542 Francis Leycester

(last prior of St Andrew's Priory, Northampton)

• 1543–1549 Gerard Carleton
• 1549–1557 James Curthoppe
• 1557–1559 John Boxall (deprived)
• 1560–1583 William Latymer
• 1583–1589 Richard Fletcher
• 1590–1597 Thomas Nevile
• 1597–1607 John Palmer
• 1607–1612 Richard Clayton
• 1612–1617 George Meriton
• 1617–1622 Henry Beaumont (later dean of Windsor)
• 1622–1630 William Piers
• 1630–1639 John Towers
• 1639–1640 Thomas Jackson
• 1640–1660 John Cosin
• 1661–1664 Edward Rainbowe
• 1664–1679 James Duport
• 1679–1689 Simon Patrick
• 1689–1691 Richard Kidder
• 1691–1707 Samuel Freeman
• 1707–1718 White Kennett
• 1718–1721 Richard Reynolds
• 1721–1722 Edward Gee

Late modern

• 1797–1822 Thomas Kipling
• 1822–1830 James Henry Monk
• 1830–1842 Thomas Turton
• 1842–1853 George Butler
• 1853–1878 Augustus Saunders (previously Headmaster of Charterhouse School)
• 1878–1890 John Perowne
• 1891–1892 Marsham Argles
• 1893–1901 William Ingram
• 1901–1908 William Barlow^[1]
• 1908–1928 Arnold Page
• 1928–1942 James Simpson
• 1943–1965 Noel Christopherson
• 1966–1980 Dick Wingfield-Digby^[2]
• 1981–1992 Randolph Wise
• 1992–31 March 2006 Michael Bunker^[3]
• 2006–2 October 2016 (ret.) ^[4] Charles Taylor^[5]
• 2 October 2016 – 9 October 2017 Jonathan Baker (Acting)^[6]
• 2017: Tim Sledge (dean-designate only: announced 27 August 2017, but withdrew his nomination due to personal health reasons)^[7][8]
• 9 October 2017 – 20 January 2018 Tim Alban Jones (Acting)^[6]
• 20 January 2018 – present^[9] Chris Dalliston^[10]