List of provosts of Trinity College Dublin

The following persons have been provost of Trinity College Dublin.

List of provosts of Trinity College Dublin[1]

No.  | Name  | Tenure  | Lifetime  | Notes
1  | Adam Loftus | 1592–1594 | c.1533–1605  | Also was Archbishop of Armagh, Archbishop of Dublin and Lord Chancellor of Ireland.
2  | Walter Travers | 1594–1598  | c.1548–1634  |
3  | Henry Alvey | 1601–1609  |  |
4  | Sir William Temple | 1609–1627  | c.1555–1627  |
5  | William Bedell | 1627–1629  | c.1571–1642  | Later became Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh in 1629.
6  | Robert Ussher | 1629–1634  |  | Later became Bishop of Kildare 1636–1642.
7  | William Chappell | 1634–1640  | c.1582–1649  | Also was Bishop of Cork and Ross 1638–1649.
8  | Richard Washington | 1640–1641  |
9  | Anthony Martin | 1645–1650  | d. 1650  | Also was Bishop of Meath 1625–1650
10  | Samuel Winter | 1652–1660  | c.1603–1666  |
11  | Thomas Seele | 1661–1675  | c.1611–1675  | Also was Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin 1666–1675
12  | Michael Ward | 1674–1678  | c.1643–1681  | Later became Bishop of Ossory in 1678, transferred to Derry in 1680.
13  | Narcissus Marsh | 1679–1683  | c.1638–1713  | Later became Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin 1683, then Archbishop of Cashel in 1690, Archbishop of Dublin in 1694, and Archbishop of Armagh in 1703.
14  | Robert Huntington[2] | 1683–1692  | c.1636–1701  | Later became Bishop of Raphoe from July to September 1701. In Huntington's absence from 1688, James II appointed Michael Moore, Catholic vicar-general of Dublin, as head of the college for a short period from 1689 until 1690; noted for along with the librarian Fr. McCarthy, protecting the library from pillage and burning. He was later Rector of the University of Paris.[3]
15  | St George Ashe | 1692–1695  | c.1658–1718  | Later became bishop of Cloyne in 1695, translated to Clogher in 1697, and finally to Derry in 1717.
16  | George Browne | 1695–1699  | c.1649–1699  |
17  | Peter Browne | 1699–1710  | c.1665–1735  | Later became Bishop of Cork and Ross 1710–1735.
18  | Benjamin Pratt | 1710–1717  | c.1669–1721  | Later became Dean of Down 1717–1721.
19  | Richard Baldwin | 1717–1758  | c.1668–1758  |
20  | Francis Andrews | 1758–1774  | c.1718–1774  | He left £3,000 to found the Dunsink Observatory and the Andrews chair of astronomy.
21  | John Hely-Hutchinson | 1774–1794  | c.1724–1794  |
22  | Richard Murray | 1795–1799  | c.1726–1799  |
23  | John Kearney | 1799–1806  | c.1742–1813  | Later became Bishop of Ossory 1806–1813.
24  | George Hall | 1806–1811  | c.1753–1811  | Later became Bishop of Dromore 17–23 November 1811.
25  | Thomas Elrington | 1811–1820  | c.1760–1835  | Later became Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe in 1820, then translated to Ferns and Leighlin in 1822.
26  | Samuel Kyle | 1820–1831  | c.1771–1848  | Later became Bishop of Cork and Ross 1831–1835, and Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross 1835–1848
27  | Bartholomew Lloyd | 1831–1837  | c.1772–1837  |
28  | Franc Sadleir | 1837–1851  | c.1774–1851  |
29  | Richard MacDonnell | 1851–1867  | c.1787–1867  |
30  | Humphrey Lloyd | 1867–1881  | c.1800–1881  |
31  | John Hewitt Jellett | 1881–1888  | c.1817–1888  |
32  | George Salmon | 1888–1904  | c.1819–1904  | Also was Chancellor of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin 1871–1904.
33  | Anthony Traill | 1904–1914  | c.1838–1914  |
34  | Sir John Pentland Mahaffy | 1914–1919  | c.1839–1919  |
35  | John Henry Bernard | 1919–1927  | c.1860–1927  | Formerly Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin 1902–1911, Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin 1911–1915, and Archbishop of Dublin 1915–1919.
36  | Edward John Gwynn | 1927–1937  | c.1868–1941  |
37  | William Thrift | 1937–1942  | c.1870–1942  | TD for Dublin University 1921–1937
38  | Ernest Alton | 1942–1952  | c.1873–1952  | TD for Dublin University 1921–1937, Senator for Dublin University 1938–1943
39  | Albert Joseph McConnell | 1952–1974  | 1903–1993  |
40  | F. S. L. Lyons | 1974–1981  | 1923–1983  |
41  | William Arthur Watts | 1981–1991  | 1930–2010  |
42  | Thomas Mitchell | 1991–2001  | b. 1939  | First Catholic to be Provost since Michael Moore in 1690.[4]
43  | John Hegarty | 2001–2011 |  |
44  | Patrick Prendergast[5] | 2011–2021 |  |
45  | Linda Doyle | 2021– |  | elected 10 April 2021[6] to take office 1 August 2021. First woman elected provost.

## References

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1. ^ Former Provost of Trinity College Dublin. Retrieved on 18 September 2009.
2. ^ "Huntington, Robert" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
3. ^ "Moor, Michael" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
4. ^ New Trinity College Dublin Provost Is Catholic 1991 by Alasdair Jackson, RTE News, 18 July 1991. (RTE Archives).
5. ^ Biography.
6. ^ "Trinity College Dublin names Linda Doyle as first woman provost in 429 years". The Irish Times.

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