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Dean of the Arches

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The Dean of the Arches is the judge who presides in the provincial ecclesiastical court of the Archbishop of Canterbury.[1] This court is called the Arches Court of Canterbury. It hears appeals from consistory courts and bishop's disciplinary tribunals in the province of Canterbury.

The Dean of the Arches is appointed jointly by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archbishop of York with the approval of the monarch signified by warrant under the sign manual.[2] The same person presides in the Chancery Court of York where he or she has the title of Auditor and hears appeals from consistory courts and bishop's disciplinary tribunals in the province of York. The Dean of the Arches is also Official Principal of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archbishop of York,[citation needed] and acts as Master of the Faculties.

The current Dean of the Arches is Morag Ellis, who succeeded Charles George on 8 June 2020.[3]

List of Deans of the Arches

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Years Dean
1273– William de Middelton[4]
1297– William de Sardinia[4]
1308– John de Ross[4] (?afterwards Bishop of Carlisle, 1325)
1322–?1323 John de Stratford[4] (afterwards Bishop of Winchester, 1323)
1333 John de Ufford[5]
c.1346 Simon Islip (afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, 1349)[6]
1350– John de Carleton[4]
1360– William de Wittersley[4]
1364– Thomas Young[4]
1376– John Barner[4]
1381– Thomas de Baketon, Appointed by Archbishop Courteney (Baketon/Bakton/Bacton/Bactone and variants) Likely a member of the Mynyot/Minot family that included Thomas Minot, Archbishop of Dublin who died in London 1375 (research ongoing)[4]
1407– Richard Brinkley[4]
1415– Henry Ware[4]
1419– John Stafford afterwards Archdeacon of Salisbury, 1419)
1423– Thomas Beckington (also Archdeacon of Buckingham, 1424–1443 and afterwards Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1443}[4]
1426– William Lyndwood (also Archdeacon of Stow, 1434)
1434–1440 John Lyndfeld[7]
1444– William Byconnyl[4]
1452– Robert Dobbs[4]
c.1460–1472 William Wytham[8] (also Dean of Wells, 1469–1472)
1474– John Morton (cardinal), afterwards Bishop of Ely, 1478 and Archbishop of Canterbury, 1486 [9]
1504–1515 Humphrey Hawardyn[4]
c.1511 Richard Bodewell also known as Blodwell
1520–1522 Thomas Wodynton
?–1532 Peter Ligham[10]
1532–1543 Richard Gwent (died 1543) (also Archdeacon of Brecon, 1534 and Archdeacon of London, 1534) and Archdeacon of Huntingdon, 1542)[4]
1543–1545 John Cock (or Cockys)[11][4]
1545– William Coke or Cooke (1st lay dean)[4][12]
1549– Griffin Leyson
1553– John Story (afterwards MP for East Grinstead, 1553 and Bramber, 1554)
1556–1557 David Pole (afterwards Bishop of Peterborough, 1557}
1557–1558 Henry Cole
1558–1559 Nicholas Harpisfield
1559–1560 William Mowse
1560–?1567 Robert Weston (afterwards Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 1567)
1567–1573 Thomas Yale
1572– John Cooke
1573–1589/90 Bartholomew Clerke
1590–1597 Richard Cosin
1597–1598 Thomas Byng
1598–1617 Daniel Donne
1618–1624 Sir William Bird
1624–1633 Sir Henry Marten[13]
1633–1643 Sir John Lambe
c.1646 William Sammes
c.1647–1655 William Clerke
c.1658– John Godolpin
c.1660 Walter Walker
c.1660 Richard Zouch
1660–1672 Sir Giles Sweit
1672–1684 Sir Robert Wiseman
1684–1686 Sir Richard Lloyd
1686–1688 Sir Thomas Exton
1689–1703 George Oxendon
1703–1710 Sir John Cooke
1710–1751 John Bettesworth[14]
1751–1758 Sir George Lee
1758–1764 Sir Edward Simpson
1764–1778 Sir George Hay
1778–1788 Peter Calvert
1788–1809 Sir William Wynne
1809–1834 Sir John Nicholl
1834–1852 Herbert Jenner-Fust
1852–1858 Sir John Dodson[15]
1858–1867 Stephen Lushington[15]
1867–1875 Sir Robert Phillimore
1875–1898 Lord Penzance
1898–1903 Sir Arthur Charles
1903–1934 Sir Lewis Dibdin
1934–1955 Sir Philip Wilbraham-Baker
1955–1971 Sir Henry Willink
1971–1972 Walter Wigglesworth
1972–1976 Sir Harold Kent
1977–1980 Kenneth Elphinstone
1980–2000 Sir John Owen
2001–2009 Sheila Cameron
2009–2020 Charles George
2020– Morag Ellis[3]

Notes

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  1. ^ Details of that court's responsibilities: Ecclesiastical court#Church of England.
  2. ^ Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1963, section 3(2)(a)
  3. ^ a b Pocklington, David. "Dean of the Court of Arches appointed". Frank Cranmer and David Pocklington. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Newcourt, Richard. Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londinense: Comprising all London and . p. 434. Google Books
  5. ^ Kingsford, Charles Lethbridge. "Offord, John de" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 42. pp. 7–8.
  6. ^ "CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Simon Islip".
  7. ^ Susan Cavanaugh, A Study of Books Privately Owned in England 1300–1450 (University of Pennsylvania, 1980), Ph.D. Dissertation, p. 517.
  8. ^ Cocks, Terence. "The Archdeacons of Leicester 1092–1992" (PDF). Retrieved 15 January 2012.
  9. ^ Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service, Register of John Carpenter, bishop of Worcester, 2 vols, II, fol.53. This source is open to question, however, as the text simply describes Morton as rector of St Dunstan-in-the-East in the deanery of the arches; it does not actually call him the dean. There are no other known references to Morton as dean.
  10. ^ "The 1552 Reform of English Church Discipline" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 June 2013. Retrieved 26 May 2012.
  11. ^ The parliamentary history of the principality of Wales, from the earliesr times to the present day, 1541-1895
  12. ^ Senior, William (1927). "The Judges of the High Court of Admiralty". The Mariner's Mirror. 13 (4): 336. doi:10.1080/00253359.1927.10655437.
  13. ^ The Dictionary of National Biography in its first edition had Hugh Barker Dean c.1632 s:Barker, Hugh (DNB00); but this was retracted in the 1904 Errata.
  14. ^ YourArchives page Archived 2011-12-07 at the UK Government Web Archive.
  15. ^ a b ODNB