| Tenure
| Incumbent
| Notes
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| 1542 to 1554 | John Bird |
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| 1554 to 1555 | George Cotes |
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| 1556 to 1559 | Cuthbert Scott |
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| 1561Events The Edict of Orleans suspends the persecution of the Huguenots Mary, Queen of Scots is denied passage through England after returning from France. She arrives at Leith, Scotland on August 19. The first Calvinists settle in England after fleeing Fla to 1577Events The church in San Pedro in the Atacama Desert in Chile was built. Births April 12 King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway June 12 Habbakkuk Guldin later known as Paul Guldin, Swiss Jesuit mathematician June 28 Peter Paul Rubens, painter November 25 | William Downham |
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| 1579Events January 6 The Union of Atrecht united the southern Netherlands under the Duke of Parma, governor in the name of king Philip II of Spain. January 23 The Union of Utrecht united the northern Netherlands in a confederation called the United Provinces. to 1595Events January 30 William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is performed for the first time June 9 Battle of Fontaine-Francaise. Henry IV of France defeats the Spanish, but is nearly killed due to his rashness. October 28 Battle of Guirgevo. Transylvanian fo | William Chaderton |
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| 1595Events January 30 William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is performed for the first time June 9 Battle of Fontaine-Francaise. Henry IV of France defeats the Spanish, but is nearly killed due to his rashness. October 28 Battle of Guirgevo. Transylvanian fo to 1596Events April 9 Spanish troops capture Calais September 17 The Spanish capture Amiens September 20 Diego de Montemayor founded the city of Monterrey, Mexico. First water closet, by Sir John Harrington, is installed in a manor near Kelston in England Births | Hugh Bellott |
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| 1597Events January 24 Battle of Turnhout. Maurice of Nassau defeats a Spanish force under Jean de Rie of Varas in the Netherlands The first opera is considered to have been written. Bali discovered by the Dutch explorer Cornelis Houtman Births Pieter Saenreda to 1604Events January 14 Hampton Court conference with James I of England, the Anglican bishops and representatives of Puritans September 20 Capture of Ostend by Spanish forces under Ambrosio Spinola after a three year siege. November 1 At Whitehall Palace in Lo | Richard Vaughan |
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| 1604 to 1615 | George Lloyd |
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| 1616 to 1619 | Thomas Morton |
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| 1619 to 1652 | John Bridgeman |
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| 1660 to 1661 | Brian Walton |
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| 1662 to 1662 | Henry Ferne |
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| 1662 to 1668 | George Hall |
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| 1668 to 1672 | John Wilkins |
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| 1673 to 1686 | John Pearson |
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| 1686 to 1689 | Thomas Cartwright |
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| 1689 to 1707 | Nicholas Stratford |
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| 1708 to 1714 | Sir William Dawes, the 3rd Baronet Dawes |
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| 1714 to 1725 | Francis Gastrell |
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| 1726 to 1752 | Samuel Peploe |
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| 1752 to 1771 | Edmund Keene |
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| 1771 to 1776 | William Markham |
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| 1776 to 1787 | Beilby Porteus |
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| 1788 to 1800 | William Cleaver |
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| 1800 to 1809 | Henry Majendie |
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| 1810 to 1812 | Bowyer Sparke |
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| 1812 to 1834 | George Law |
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| 1824 to 1828 | Charles Blomfield |
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| 1828 to 1848 | John Sumner |
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| 1845 to 1865 | John Graham |
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| 1865 to 1884 | William Jacobson |
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| 1884 to 1889 | William Stubbs |
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| 1889 to 1919 | Francis Jayne |
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| 1919 to 1932 | Henry Paget |
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| 1932 to 1939 | Geoffrey Fisher |
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| 1939 to 1955 | Douglas Crick |
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| 1955 to 1973 | Gerald Ellison |
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| 1974 to 1981 | Hubert Whitsey |
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| 1982 to 1996 | Michael Baughen | Retired
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| 1996 to present | Peter Forster | Enthroned 21 January 1997
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