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List of Abbots, Deans, and the Bishop of Westminster

Westminster Abbey, as seen from the west
Abbots
Edwin
1049 – c. 1071

Geoffrey of Jumièges
c. 1071 – c. 1075

Vitalis of Bernay
c. 1076 – 1085

Gilbert Crispin
1085 – 1117

Herbert
1121 – c. 1136

Gervase de Blois
1138 – c. 1157

Laurence of Durham
c. 1158 – 1173

Walter of Winchester
1175 – 1190

William Postard
1191 – 1200

Ralph de Arundel (alias Papillon)
1200 – 1214

William de Humez
1214 – 1222

Richard de Berkying
1222 – 1246

Richard de Crokesley
1246 – 1258

Phillip de Lewisham
1258

Richard de Ware
1258 – 1283

Walter de Wenlok
1283 – 1307

Richard de Kedyngton (alias Sudbury)
1308 – 1315

William de Curtlyngton
1315 – 1333

Thomas de Henley
1333 – 1344

Simon de Bircheston
1344 – 1349

Simon de Langham
1349 – 1362

Nicholas de Litlyngton
1362 – 1386

William de Colchester
1386 – 1420

Edmund Kyrton
1440 – 1462

George Norwich
1463 – 1469

Thomas Millyng
1469 – 1474

John Esteney
1474 – 1498

George Fascet
1498 – 1500

John Islip
1500 – 1532

William Boston
1533 – 1540

Bishop
intra-Reformation

Thomas Thirlby
1540 – 1550

Deans
intra-Reformation

William Benson (Abbot Boston)
1540 – 1549

Richard Cox
1549 – 1553

Hugh Weston
1553 – 1556

Abbot
restored by Mary I of England

John Feckenham
1556 – 1559

Deans
post-Reformation

William Bill
1560 – 1561

Gabriel Goodman
1561 – 1601

Lancelot Andrewes
1601 – 1605

Richard Neile
1605 – 1610

George Montaigne
1610 – 1617

Robert Tounson
1617 – 1620

ben Williams
1620 – 1644

Richard Steward (never installed)
1644 – 1651
(Commonwealth period)

John Earle
1660 – 1662

John Dolben
1662 – 1683

Thomas Sprat
1683 – 1713

Francis Atterbury
1713 – 1723

Samuel Bradford
1723 – 1731

Joseph Wilcocks
1731 – 1756

Zachary Pearce
1756 – 1768

John Thomas
1768 – 1793

Samuel Horsley
1793 – 1802

William Vincent
1802 – 1815

John Ireland
1816 – 1842

Thomas Turton
1842 – 1845

Samuel Wilberforce
1845

William Buckland
1845 – 1856

Richard Chenevix Trench
1856 – 1864

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
1864 – 1881

George Granville Bradley
1881 – 1902

Joseph Armitage Robinson
1902 – 1911

Herbert Edward Ryle
1911 – 1925

William Foxley Norris
1925 – 1937

Paul de Labilliere
1938 – 1946

Alan Don
1946 – 1959

Eric Symes Abbott
1959 – 1974

Edward Carpenter
1974 – 1985

Michael Mayne
1986 – 1996

Arthur Wesley Carr
1997 – present