Dean of Wolverhampton
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The Dean of Wolverhampton was the head of the chapter of canons at St Peter's Collegiate Church, Wolverhampton, until the chapter was disestablished in 1846. The collegiate church was, until that point, a royal peculiar falling outside of the diocesan and provincial structures of the Church of England. Today, the church is district church within a team parish led by a rector, although it has its own vicar and curate within the team. It is now part of the Diocese of Lichfield.
List of deans
The deanery was probably established in the mid-12th century, along the lines adopted at Lichfield Cathedral, as the church was in episcopal hands at that time. The names of earlier heads of the chapter and any deans before Peter of Blois have not survived. Samson, William the Conqueror's chaplain was feudal overlord of the canons, but there is no evidence he headed the chapter and he was not ordained priest until he became bishop of Worcester. The following were deans of Wolverhampton before the post became assimilated to the deanery of Windsor, around 1480.[1]
High medieval
Late medieval
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Modern era
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References
- ^ Victoria County History - Staffordshire: Vol. 3, no. 44: M W Greenslade, R B Pugh (Editors), G C Baugh, Revd L W Cowie, Revd J C Dickinson, A P Duggan, A K B Evans, R H Evans, Una C Hannam, P Heath, D A Johnston, Professor Hilda Johnstone, Ann J Kettle, J L Kirby, Revd R Mansfield, Professor A Saltman (1970): Victoria County History: A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 3, no. 44, Colleges: Wolverhampton, St Peter.
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- Peter of Blois
- Nicholas
- Henry Fitz Geoffrey
- Giles of Erdington
- Theodosius de Camilla
- Philip of Everdon
- John of Everdon
- Godfrey of Rudham
- Robert of Silkstone
- John of Melbourne
- John of the Chamber
- Hugh Ellis
- Philip Weston
- John of Newnham
- Amaury Shirland
- Richard Postell
- Lawrence Allerthorpe
- Thomas Stanley
- Robert Wolveden
- William Felter
- John Barningham
- William Dudley
- Lionel Woodville
- Richard Beauchamp
- Thomas Danett
- William Bealey
- John Morgan
- Christopher Urswick
- Christopher Bainbridge
- Thomas Hobbes
- Nicholas West
- John Vesey
- John Clerk
- Richard Sampson
- William Franklyn
- Owen Oglethorpe
- Hugh Weston
- John Boxall
- George Carew
- William Day
- Robert Bennet
- Giles Thomson
- Anthony Maxey
- Marco Antonio de Dominis
- Henry Beaumont
- Matthew Wren
- Christopher Wren
- Bruno Ryves
- John Durell
- Francis Turner
- Gregory Hascard
- Thomas Manningham
- John Robinson
- George Verney, Lord Willoughby de Broke
- Peniston Booth
- Frederick Keppel
- John Harley
- John Douglas
- James Cornwallis
- Charles Manners-Sutton
- Edward Legge
- Henry Hobart
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