Dean of Ripon

The Dean of Ripon is a senior cleric in the Church of England Diocese of Leeds. The dean is the head of the chapter at Ripon Cathedral – his predecessors were deans of the same church when it was previously the cathedral of the Diocese of Ripon and a minster in the diocese of York.

The western façade of Ripon Cathedral

List of deans

Deans of Ripon Minster 1604–1608 Moses Fowler 1608–1624 Anthony Higgin 1624–1634 John Wilson 1635–1645 Thomas Dod 1646–1662 Vacancy – Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland 1663–1672 John Wilkins 1674–1675 John Neile 1675–1675 Thomas Tully[1] 1675–1686 Thomas Cartwright 1686–1710 Christopher Wyvill 1710–1750 Heneage Dering 1750–1791 Francis Wanley 1791–1828 Darley Waddilove[2] 1828–1836 James Webber

Deans of Ripon Cathedral 1836–1847 James Webber 1847–1859 Hon Henry Erskine (son of Lord Erskine) 1859–1860 Thomas Garnier 1860–1868 William Goode 1868–1876 Hugh Boyd M‘Neile 1876–1876 Sydney Turner 1876–1895 William Fremantle (uncle) 1895–1914 Hon William Fremantle (nephew) 1915–1940 Mansfield Owen 1941–1951 Godwin Birchenough 1951–1967 Llewelyn Hughes 1968–1984 Edwin Le Grice 1984–1995 Christopher Campling 1995–2005 John Methuen 2007–2013 Keith Jukes[3] 2014–present John Dobson