Dean of Ripon

The western façade of Ripon Cathedral

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.

List of deans

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

Sources

• British History Online – Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857 – Deans of Ripon (Cathedral)