Dean of the Arches

Judge of the English ecclesiastical court

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

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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[16]
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; see- Henderson, Thomas Finlayson. "Barker, Hugh" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 03\. p. 201. ; but this was retracted in the 1904 Errata.
14. ^ YourArchives page Archived 2011-12-07 at the UK Government Web Archive.
15. ^ Boase, George Clement. "Dodson, John" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 15\. pp. 175–176.
16. ^ Barker, G.F.R. "Lushington, Stephen (1782-1873)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 34\. pp. 291–293.

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