Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Trinity is the largest of all the colleges in Cambridge (and indeed Oxford), with around 650 undergraduates, 320 graduates, and over 160 Fellows. It is also the wealthiest Oxbridge college with an estimated financial endowment of £621m and income of £25.2m (2003) (On a per student basis, Trinity is one of the best-endowed educational institutions in the world).

College Officials

List of Masters

The head of Trinity College is the Master. The first Master was John Redman who was appointed in 1546. The role is a Royal appointment and in the past was sometimes made by the Monarch as a favour to an important person. Nowadays the Fellows of the College, and to a lesser extent the Government, choose the new Master and the Royal role is only nominal. A complete list of the Masters of Trinity is below.

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• John Redman 1546-1551
• William Bill 1551-1553
• John Christopherson 1553-1558
• William Bill 1558-1561
• Robert Beaumont 1561-1567
• John Whitgift 1567-1577
• John Still 1577-1593
• Thomas Nevile 1593-1615
• John Richardson 1615-1625
• Leonard Mawe 1625-1629
• Samuel Brooke 1629-1631
• Thomas Comber 1631-1645
• Thomas Hill 1645-1653
• John Arrowsmith 1653-1659
• John Wilkins 1659-1660
• Henry Ferne 1660-1662
• John Pearson 1662-1672
• Isaac Barrow 1672-1677
• John North 1677-1683
• John Montagu 1683-1699
• Richard Bentley 1700-1742
• Robert Smith 1742-1768
• John Hinchliffe 1768-1789
• Thomas Postlethwaite 1789-1798
• William Lort Mansel 1798-1820
• Christopher Wordsworth 1820-1841
• William Whewell 1841-1866
• William Hepworth Thompson 1866-1886
• Henry Montagu Butler 1886-1918
• Sir Joseph John Thomson 1918-1940
• George Macaulay Trevelyan 1940-1951
• Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian 1951-1965
• Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden 1965-1978
• Sir Alan Hodgkin 1978-1984
• Sir Andrew Huxley 1984-1990
• Sir Michael Atiyah 1990-1997
• Amartya Sen 1998-2004
• Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow 2004-present

List of Deans of Chapel

• John Robinson 1969-1983
• John Bowker 1984-1991
• Arnold Browne 1991-present