Dean of Chester

List of deans

Early modern

• 1541 Thomas Clerk
• 1541–1547 Henry Man
• 1547–1558 William Clyff
• 1560–1567 Richard Walker
• 1567–1572 John Piers
• 1572–1579 Richard Langworth
• 1579–1580 Robert Dorset
• 1580–1589 Thomas Mawdesley
• 1589–1602 John Nutter
• 1602–1605 William Barlow
• 1605–1607 Henry Parry
• 1607–1644 Thomas Mallory
• 1644–1657 William Nichols
• 1660–1682 Henry Bridgeman
• 1682–1691 James Arderne
• 1691–1718 Lawrence Fogg
• 1718–1721 Walter Offley
• 1721–1732 Thomas Allen
• 1732–1758 Thomas Brooke
• 1758–1787 William Smith
• 1787–1805 George Cotton

  Late modern

• 1806–1815 Hugh Cholmondeley
• 1815-1820 Robert Hodgson
• 1820–1826 Peter Vaughan
• 1826–1828 Edward Coplestone
• 1828–1831 Henry Phillpotts
• 1831–1839 George Davys
• 1839–1867 Frederick Anson
• 1867–1885 John Howson
• 1886–1919 John Darby
• 1920–1937 Frank Bennett
• 1937–1953 Norman Tubbs
• 1954–1962 Michael Gibbs
• 1963–1977 George Addleshaw
• 1978–1986 Ingram Cleasby
• 1987–2001 Stephen Smalley
• 200230 September 2017 Gordon McPhate
• 2017–2018 Jane Brooke
• 8 September 2018present Tim Stratford