Dean of Lichfield

List of deans

Early Medieval

• 1222–1254 William de Manecestra
• 1254–? Ralph de Sempringham

  Medieval

• 1280–1319 John de Derby
• 1319–1324 Stephen Seagrave
  
• 1324–1328 Roger de Convenis
• 1328–1335 John Garssia
  
• 1335–1346 Richard FitzRalph
• 1346–1347 John of Thoresby
• 1347–1349 Simon de Brisele
  
• 1350–1363 John Bokyngham
• 1364–1369 William de Manton
• 1369–? Laurence de Ibstock
• ?–1370 Anthony Rous
• 1371–1378 Francis de Teobaldeschi
• 1381–1390 William Pakington
• 1390–1426 Thomas de Stretton
• 1426–1432 Robert Wolveden
• 1432–1447 John Verney, formerly Rector of Bredon in Worcestershire, and supervisor and receiver-general to Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick. He was the younger brother of Sir Richard de Verney of Compton Verney in Warwickshire.
• 1457–1492 Thomas Heywood

  Early modern

• 1493–1512 John Yotton
• 1512–1521 Ralph Colyngwood
• 1522–1533 James Denton
• 1533–1536 Richard Sampson
• 1536–1554 Henry Williams
• 1554–1559 John Ramridge
• 1560–1576 Laurence Nowell
• 1576–1603 George Boleyn
• July 1603–20 December 1604 James Montague
• 1605–1622 William Tooker
• 1622–1628 Walter Curle
• 1628–1632 Augustine Lindsell
• 1633–1638 John Warner
• 1638–1638 Samuel Fell
• 1638–1659 Griffin Higgs
• 1661–1663 William Paul
• 1664–1671 Thomas Wood
• 1671–1683 Matthew Smallwood
• 1683–1703 Lancelot Addison
• 1703–1712 William Binckes
• 1713–1720 Jonathan Kimberley
• 1720–1730 William Walmesley
• 1730–1745 Nicholas Penny
• 1745–1776 John Addenbrooke
• 1776–1807 Baptist Proby

  Late modern

• 1807–1833 John Woodhouse
• 1833–1868 Henry Howard
• 1868–1875 William Champneys
• 1875–1892 Edward Bickersteth
• 1892–1909 Herbert Luckock
• 1909–1939 Henry Savage
• 1939–1952 Frederic Iremonger
• 1954–1969 William MacPherson
• 1970–1979 George Holderness
• 1980–1993 John Lang
• 1994–1999 Tom Wright
• 1999–2005 Michael Yorke
• 2005–present Adrian Dorber
• March–September 2012 Pete Wilcox, Acting Dean