Dean of York

List of deans

High Medieval

• 1093– Hugh
• –1143 William of St. Barbara
• –1157 Robert of Ghent
• 1158–1186 Robert Butevilain
• 1186–1189 Hubert Walter
• 1189–1194 Henry Marshal
• 1194–1214 Simon of Apulia
• 1214–? William Testard
• – Hamo
• 1220–1233 Roger de Insula
• 1233–1238 Geoffrey de Norwich
• 1239–1243 Fulk Basset
• 1244–1249 Walter of Kirkham
• –1256 Sewal de Bovil
• 1257–1258 Godfrey Ludham
• 1258–1260 Roger de Holderness
• –1279 William Langton
• 1279–1290 Robert de Scarborough
• 1290–1297 Henry of Newark

  Late Medieval

• 1296–1307 William Hambleton
• 1307–1310 Raymond de Goth
• 1310–1312 William Pickering
• 1312–1333 Robert Pickering
• 1333–1336 William de Colby
• 1336–1340 William Zouche
• 1342–1343 Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord
• 1366–1380 Cardinal Angelicus Grimaud
• 1382–1385 Cardinal Adam Easton
• 1385–1395 Edmund Stafford
• 1395–1397 Roger Walden
• 1398–1400 Richard Clifford
• 1401–1406 Thomas Langley
• 1406–1416 John Prophet
• 1416–1420 Thomas Polton
• 1420–1425 William Grey
• 1426–1436 Robert Gilbert
• 1436–1451 William Felter
• 1452–1477 Richard Andrew
• 1477–1488 Robert Booth
• 1488–1494 Christopher Urswick
• 1494–1496 William Sheffield
• 1497–1503 Geoffrey Blythe

  Early modern

• 1503–1507 Christopher Bainbridge
• 1508–1512 James Harrington
• 1513–1514 Thomas Wolsey
• 1514–1516 John Yonge
• 1516–1539 Brian Higden
• 1539–1544 Richard Layton
• 1544–1567 Nicholas Wotton
• 1567–1589 Matthew Hutton
• 1589–1617 John Thornborough
• 1617–1624 George Meriton
• 1625–1644 John Scott
• 1644–1660 Abolished – Commonwealth & Protectorate
• 1660–1663 Richard Marshe
• Jan–Nov 1664 William Sancroft
• 1664–1677 Robert Hitch
• 1677–1697 Tobias Wickham
• 1697–1702 Thomas Gale
• 1702–1728 Henry Finch
• 1728–1747 Richard Osbaldeston
• 1747–1802 John Fountayne

  Late modern

• 1802–1822 George Markham
• 1823–1858 William Cockburn
• 1858–1880 Augustus Duncombe
• 1880–1916 Arthur Purey-Cust
• 1917–1925 William Foxley Norris
• 1926–1932 Lionel Ford
• 1932–1941 Herbert Bate
• 1941–1963 Eric Milner-White
• 1964–1975 Alan Richardson
• 1975–1984 Ronald Jasper
• 1984–1994 John Southgate
• 1994–2003 Raymond Furnell
• 2004–2012 Keith Jones
• December 20122018 Viv Faull
• 25 June 20182 February 2019 Peter Moger, Canon Precentor and Acting Dean
• 2 February 2019present Jonathan Frost