List of masters of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge

This is a list of masters of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Fitzwilliam House, the body established in 1869 for non-collegiate students attached to the University of Cambridge, was presided over by a Censor. Once the non-collegiate system was ended and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge was established as a full college of the university in 1966 the college head became known as the Master.

Censors of Fitzwilliam House, Cambridge

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• 1869 - 1881 Ralph Benjamin Somerset
• 1881 - 1890 Francis George Howard
• 1890 - 1907 Tristram Frederick Croft Huddleston
• 1907 - 1924 William Fiddian Reddaway
• 1924 - 1954 William Sutherland Thatcher
• 1955 - 1959 William Washington Williams
• 1959 - 1966 Walter Wyatt Grave

Masters of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge

Name	Years in office	Career
Walter Wyatt Grave	1966 - 1971	Academic administrator
Edward Miller	1971 - 1981	Historian, Chairman of the Victoria County History Project and the History of Parliament Trust, Editor of the Agrarian History of England and Wales
Sir James Holt	1981 - 1988	Medieval historian, President of the Royal Historical Society (1981–1985), Vice-president of the British Academy (1987–89)
Gordon Cameron	1988 - 1990	Economist
Alan Cuthbert	1991 - 1999	Pharmacologist, Sheild Professor (1979–99)
Brian F. G. Johnson	1999 - 2005	Chemist, executive at EPSRC and Academia Europaea, expert authority on nanoparticles
Robert Lethbridge	2005 - 2013	Expert on French Language and Literature, awarded Chevalier des Palmes académiques, Provost of the Gates Cambridge Trust (2010–13)
Nicola Padfield	2013 - 2019	Expert on Criminal and Penal Justice
Sally Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Huyton	2019 -	Labour peer, former senior government advisor, former Chair of Ofsted