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Rectors and Provosts of Eton

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In 1847 George Lipscomb in his "The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham" listed the following Rectors and Provosts for Eton:

Rectors of Eton

1299 Thomas Holte
1328 William de Kirkeby
1331 Jeffry de Upton
1340 William de Honesworth
13-- Roger Gerneys
1380 John Alban
1383 William Dole
1400 Walter Aumeny
1402 John Herde
1402 John Rothwell
1408 John Wiltonhurst
1409 Richard Walton
1414 William Gillyot
1421 Thomas Wyott
14-- William Kery
1433 William (Geffry?) Ap David
1435 Pagan Burgill
14-- John Kett is said to have been the last Rector of Eton

Provosts of Eton

1440 circa John Stanbury
1441 Henry Sever
1442 William Waynfleet
1447 John Clerc, S.T.B.
1447 William Westbury, S.T.B.
1477 Henry Bost, S.T.B.
1503 Roger Lupton, Doctor of Decretals
1536 Robert Aldrich
1547 Sir Thomas Smith, LL.D.
1554 Henry Cole, LL.D.
1561 William Bill, S.T.P.
1561 Richard Bruerne, Clerk, was evidently an intruder and was ejected a few weeks after he had assumed the Provostship.
1561 William Day
1596 Sir Henry Saville, Knt.
1621 Thomas Murray
1624 Sir Henry Wotton
1639 Richard Stewart
1643 Francis Rous, "nicknamed the Illiterate Jew of Eton"
1658 Nicholas Lockyer
1660 Nicholas Monk, S.T.P.
1661 John Meredith
1665 Richard Allestree
1680 Zacharias Cradock
1695 Henry Godolphin
1732 Henry Bland
1746 Stephen Sleech
1765 Edward Barnard
1781 William Hayward Roberts, D.D.
1791 Jonathan Davies
1809 Joseph Goodall, D.D.
18-- Francis Hodgson, B.D.