Deans of Wells Cathedral

* a layman

1140 – 1164 (c.) Ivo

1164 – 1189 (c.) Richard of Spaxton

1190 – 1213 Alexander

1213 – 1216 Leonius

1216 – 1219 Ralph of Lechlade

1219 – 1236 Peter of Chichester

1236 – 1241 William of Merton

1241 – 1253 John Saracenus

1254 – 1256 Giles of Bridport

1256 – 1284 Edward of Cnoll

1284 – 1292 Thomas Bytton

1292 – 1295 William Burnell

1295 – 1302 Walter Haselshaw

1302 – 1305 Henry Husee

1305 – 1333 John Godelee

1333 – 1333 Richard of Bury

1334 – 1335 Wibert of Littleton

1335 – 1349 Walter of London

1349 – 1350 Thomas Fastolf

1350 – 1361 John of Carleton

1361 – 1379 Stephen Penpel

1379 – 1381 John Fordham

1381 – 1396 Thomas Thebaud of Sudbury

1397 – 1398 Henry Beaufort

1398 – 1401 Nicholas Slake

1401 – 1410 Thomas Tuttebury

1410 – 1413 Richard Courtenay

1413 – 1413 Thomas Karneka

1413 – 1423 Walter Medeford

1423 – 1424 John Stafford

1425 – 1446 John Forest

1446 – 1467 Nicholas Carent

1467 – 1472 William Witham

1472 – 1498 John Gunthorpe

1498 – 1525 William Cosyn

1525 – 1529 Thomas Wynter

1529 – 1537 Richard Woleman

1537 – 1540 Thomas Cromwell*

1540 – 1547 William Fitzjames/Fitzwilliam

1548 – 1550 John Goodman

1551 – 1554 William Turner

1554 – 1560 John Goodman (restored)

1560 – 1568 William Turner (restored)

1570 – 1573 Robert Weston*

1574 – 1589 Valentine Dale*

1590 – 1602 John Herbert*

1602 – 1607 Benjamin Heydon

1607 – 1621 Richard Meredith

1621 – 1631 Ralph Barlow

1631 – 1641 George Warburton

1642 – 1644 Walter Ralegh

1660 – 1670 Robert Creyghton

1670 – 1704 Ralph Bathurst

1704 – 1713 William Grahme (Graham)

1713 – 1733 Matthew Brailsford

1733 – 1736 Isaac Maddox

1736 – 1738 John Harris, Bishop of Llandaff

1739 – 1766 Samuel Creswicke

1766 – 1799 Lord Francis Seymour

1799 – 1812 George William Lukin

1812 – 1831 Hon Henry Ryder, also Bp of Glouc 1815-24; Bp of Lich & Cov 1824 - 36

1831 – 1845 Edmund Goodenough

1845 – 1854 Richard Jenkyns

1854 – 1881 George Johnson

1881 – 1891 Edward Hayes Plumptre

1891 – 1911 Thomas Jex-Blake

1911 – 1933 Joseph Armitage Robinson

1933 – 1950 Richard Malden

1951 – 1958 Frederick Harton

1958 – 1962 Christopher Woodforde

1962 – 1973 Irven David Edwards

1973 – 1989 Patrick Mitchell

1990 – 2003 Richard Lewis

2004 – John Clarke