Bishops

Queens’ members who have become Bishops

1504 JOHN FISHER (President 1505; Student, Fellow and Master of Michaelhouse; Vice- Chancellor and Chancellor; Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity) Bishop of Rochester 1504-1535; created Cardinal in 1535. d. (executed) 1535. Canonised by the Roman Catholic Church 1935.

1505 HUGH OLDHAM (thought to have been a member of Queens’ c1489 – there is no definite proof, however) Bishop of Exeter 1505-1519. d.1519.

1543 WILLIAM PEYTO (Fellow 1506) Franciscan Provincial of England; nominated but never consecrated Bishop of Salisbury; created Cardinal in 1557. d.c1558.

1550 JOHN POYNET (Fellow 1533) Bishop of Rochester 1550-1551, Bishop of Winchester 1551-1553. d. in exile 1556.

1552 JOHN TAYLOR (Fellow 1523; Master of St John's) Bishop of Lincoln 1552-1554. d.1554.

1555 WILLIAM GLYNN (Fellow 1530, President 1553; Fellow and Vice-Master of Trinity; Vice-Chancellor; Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity) Bishop of Bangor 1555-1558. d.1558.

1560 EDMUND SCAMBLER (possibly student c1538; D.D. from Queens' 1564) Bishop of Peterborough 1560-1584, Bishop of Norwich 1585-1594. d.1594

1566 NICHOLAS ROBINSON (Sizar 1545, Fellow 1548) Bishop of Bangor 1566-1585. d.1585.

1571 WILLIAM CHADDERTON (President 1568; Student at Pembroke, Fellow of Christ's; Lady Margaret and Regius Professor of Divinity) Bishop of Chester 1571-1595, Bishop of Lincoln 1595-1608. d.1608.

1573 WILLIAM HUGHES (Sizar 1554, Scholar; Fellow of Christ's) Bishop of St Asaph 1573- 1600. d.1600.

1577 JOHN AYLMER (Probably student c1538) Bishop of London 1577-1594. d.1594.

1577 JOHN MEY (Student 1544, Fellow 1550; Master of St Catharine's; Vice-Chancellor) Bishop of Carlisle 1577-1598. d.1598.

1577 (JOHN WHITGIFT (Admitted 1550, migrated to and matriculated at Pembroke; Fellow of Peterhouse, Master of Pembroke and of Trinity; Lady Margaret and Regius Professor of Divinity; Vice-Chancellor) Bishop of Worcester 1577-1583, Archbishop of Canterbury 1583-1604. d.1604.)

1598 WILLIAM COTTON (Scholar 1568) Bishop of Exeter 1598-1621. d.1621.

1603 JOHN JEGON (Sizar 1567, Fellow 1572; Master of Corpus Christi; Vice-Chancellor) Bishop of Norwich 1603-1618. d.1618.

1615 RICHARD MILBOURNE (Sizar 1579, Fellow 1582) Bishop of St David's 1615-1621, Bishop of Carlisle 1621-1624. d.1624.

1617 NICHOLAS FELTON (Student 1577, migrated to Pembroke, Fellow and Master of Pembroke) Bishop of Bristol 1617-1619, Bishop of Ely 1619-1626. d.1626.

1617 GEORGE MOUNTAIGNE (Sizar 1586, Fellow 1592) Bishop of Lincoln 1617-1621, Bishop of London 1621-1628, Bishop of Durham 1628, Archbishop of York 1628. d.1628.

1620 ROBERT TOWNSON (Sizar 1588, Fellow 1597) Bishop of Salisbury 1620-1621. d.1621.

1621 JOHN DAVENANT (Student 1587, Fellow 1597, President 1614; Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity) Bishop of Salisbury 1621-1641. d.1641.

1637 WILLIAM ROBERTS (Student 1605, Fellow 1611) Bishop of Bangor 1637-1649 and 1660-1665. d.1665.

1638 JOHN TOWERS (Migrated to Queens' from King's 1599, Fellow 1608) Bishop of Peterborough 1638-1649. d.1649.

1667 ANTHONY SPARROW (Student 1625, Fellow 1633, President 1662; Vice-Chancellor) Bishop of Exeter 1667-1676, Bishop of Norwich 1676-1685. d.1685.

1672 (JOHN PEARSON (Admitted 1632, migrated to and matriculated at King's, Fellow of King's, Master of Jesus and of Trinity, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity) Bishop of Chester 1672-1686. d.1686.)

1689 SIMON PATRICK (Student 1644, Fellow 1649) Bishop of Chichester 1689-1691, Bishop of Ely 1691-1707. d.1707.

1736 (ISAAC MADDOX (Graduate of Aberdeen, M.A. from Queens' 1728) Bishop of St Asaph 1736-1743, Bishop of Worcester 1743-1759. d.1759.)

1742 JOHN RYDER (Student 1712, Fellow 1718) Bishop of Killaloe 1742-1743, Bishop of Down and Connor 1743-1752, Archbishop of Tuam and Bishop of Ardagh 1752-1775. d.1775.

1755 RICHARD NEWCOME (Student 1718, Fellow 1723) Bishop of Llandaff 1755-1761, Bishop of St Asaph 1761-1769. d.1769.

1759 SAMUEL HUTCHINSON (Student 1718) Bishop of Killala 1759-1780. d.1780.

1812 GEORGE HENRY LAW (Student 1776, Scholar, Fellow 1781) Bishop of Chester 1812- 1824, Bishop of Bath and Wells 1824-1845. d.1845.

1845 THOMAS TURTON (Student 1801, migrated to St Catharine's 1804, Fellow of St Catharine's; Lucasian Professor of Mathematics; Regius Professor of Divinity) Bishop of Ely 1845-1864. d.1864.

1857 ROBERT BICKERSTETH (Student 1837) Bishop of Ripon 1857-1884. d.1884.

1860 WILLIAM WALROND JACKSON (Sizar 1841, probably never resident) Bishop of Antigua 1860-1879. d.1895.

1861 THOMAS NETTLESHIP STALEY (Sizar 1840, Fellow 1847) Bishop of Honolulu 1861-1870. d.1898.

1890 JABEZ CORNELIUS WHITLEY (Student 1855, Scholar) Bishop of Chota Nagpur, India 1890-1904. d.1904.

1895 ERNEST AUGUSTUS ANDERSON (Student 1878) Bishop of Riverina, New South Wales, 1895-1925. d.1950.

1901 HERBERT EDWARD RYLE (President 1896, Hon. Fellow 1901; Scholar and Fellow of King's, Hulsean Professor of Divinity) Bishop of Exeter 1901-1903, Bishop of Winchester 1903-1911. d.1925.

1905 CHARLES HOPE GILL (Student 1880) Bishop of Travancore and Cochin, India 1905- 1924. d.1946.

1905 FREDERIC HENRY CHASE (President 1901; Student at Christ's; Norrisian Professor of Divinity; Vice-Chancellor) Bishop of Ely 1905-1924. d.1925.

1931 ARCHIBALD HOWARD CULLEN (Student 1912) Bishop of Grahamstown, South Africa 1931-1959. d.1968.

1934 HERBERT GUY BULLEN (Student 1919) Assistant Bishop in Egypt and the Sudan 1934-1937. d.1937.

1937 CECIL DOUGLAS HORSLEY (Student 1924) Bishop of Colombo, Ceylon 1937-1947, Bishop of Gibraltar 1947-1953. d.1953.

1937 DOUGLAS JOHN WILSON (Student 1921) Assistant Bishop of British Honduras c1937- 1945, Bishop of British Honduras 1945-1950, Bishop of Trinidad 1950-1956. d.1980.

1942 THOMAS HANNAY (Student 1907, Hon. Fellow 1952) Bishop of Argyll and the Isles 1942-1963, Primus of the Episcopal Church in Scotland. d.1970.

1943 GEORGE FREDERICK BINGLEY MORRIS (Student 1907) Bishop in North Africa 1943-1954, Bishop of the Church of England in South Africa. d.1966.

1946 GEORGE ARMITAGE CHASE (Student 1905, Hon. Fellow 1946) Bishop of Ripon 1946-1959. d.1971.

1946 CHARLES ROBERT CLAXTON (Student 1923) Bishop of Warrington 1946-1960, Bishop of Blackburn 1960-1972. d.1992.

1947 JAMES EDWARD LESSLIE NEWBIGIN (Student 1928) Bishop of Madurai- Ramnad, India 1947-1959, Bishop of Madras 1965-1974. d.1998.

1948 OLIVER CLAUDE ALLISON (Student 1927) Assistant Bishop of the Sudan 1948- 1952, Bishop in Sudan 1952-1976. d.1989.

1950 CHARLES KEITH KIPLING PROSSER (Student 1919) Bishop of Burnley 1950-1954. d.1954.

1950 BASIL MONTAGUE DALE (Student 1922) Bishop of Jamaica 1950-1955. d.1976.

1951 DAVID HENRY SAUNDERS DAVIES (Student 1914) Bishop of Stockport 1951-1965. d.c1975.

1952 JOOST DE BLANK (Student 1927, Hon. Fellow 1961) Bishop of Stepney 1952-1957, Archbishop of Cape Town 1957-1963. d.1968.

1960 LAURENCE AMBROSE BROWN (Student 1928) Bishop of Warrington 1960-1969, Bishop of Birmingham 1969-1978. d.1994.

1971 MAURICE ARTHUR PONSONBY WOOD (Student 1935) Bishop of Norwich 1971- 1985. d.2007

1972 JOHN KINGSMILL CAVELL (Student 1936) Bishop of Southampton 1972-1984, d. 2017, aged 100.

1972 DENNIS GASCOYNE HAWKER (Student 1946) Bishop of Grantham 1972-1987. d.2003

1973 DONALD WILLIAM BRADLEY ROBINSON (Student 1947) Bishop of Parramatta, New South Wales 1973-1982, Archbishop of Sydney 1982-1993.

1977 GEOFFREY JOHN PAUL (Student 1939) Bishop of Hull 1977-1981, Bishop of Bradford 1981-1983. d.1983.

1977 PETER JOHN BALL (Student 1951) Bishop of Lewes 1977-1992, Bishop of Gloucester 1992-1993.

1980 MICHAEL THOMAS BALL (Student 1952) Bishop of Jarrow 1980-1990, Bishop of Truro 1990-1997.

1981 DONALD GEORGE SNELGROVE (Student 1946) Bishop of Hull 1981-1994. d. 2016.

1981 MARK SANTER (Student 1957, Hon. Fellow 1992; Fellow of Clare) Bishop of Kensington 1981-1987, Bishop of Birmingham 1987-2002.

1982 KENNETH HAROLD PILLAR (Student 1946) Bishop of Hertford 1982-1990. d.2011.

1982 BRIAN JOHN MASTERS (Student 1952) Bishop of Fulham 1982-1985, Area Bishop of Edmonton 1985-1998. d.1998.

1984 COLIN JOHN FRASER SCOTT (Student 1953) Bishop of Hulme 1984-1999, d. 2014.

1987 JOHN GEORGE HUGHES (Student 1954) Bishop of Kensington 1987-1994. d.1994.

1998 GEOFFREY STEPHEN PEDLEY (Student 1960) Bishop of Lancaster 1998-2005

1999 JOHN STEWART DAVIES (Student 1972) Bishop of St Asaph 1999-2008.

2001 MICHAEL ROBERT WESTALL (Student 1959) Bishop of South-West Tanganyika 2001-2006.

2007 CLIVE MALCOLM GREGORY (Student 1985) Bishop of Wolverhampton 2007-

2009 JULIUS TAWONA MAKONI (Student 2006) Bishop of Manicaland, Zimbabwe 2009-

2011 JOHN FRANCIS SHERRINGTON (Student 1977) Auxiliary Bishop in the Archdiocese of Westminster and Titular Bishop of Hilta (R.C.) 2011-

2012 NICHOLAS HOWARD PAUL MCKINNEL (Student 1972) Bishop of Crediton 2012-14, Bishop of Plymouth 2014-

2015 PETER DAVID EATON (Student 1983) Bishop Coadjutor of the Diocese of Southeast Florida 2015-16, Bishop of South-East Florida 2016-

List updated 2018 July.