Dean of Ely

List of deans

Early modern

• 1541–1557 Robert Steward
• 1557–1589 Andrew Perne
• 1589–1591 John Bell
• 1591–1614 Humphrey Tyndall
• 1614–1636 Henry Caesar or Adelmare
• 1636–1646 William Fuller
• 1646–1651 William Beale
• 1660–1661 Richard Love
• 1661–1662 Henry Ferne
• 1662 Edward Martin
• 1662–1667 Francis Wilford
• 1667–1677 Robert Mapletoft
• 1677–1693 John Spencer
• 1693–1708 John Lambe
• 1708–1712 Charles Roderick
• 1713–1729 Robert Moss
• 1729–1730 John Frankland
• 1730–1758 Peter Allix
• 1758–1780 Hugh Thomas
• 1780–1797 William Cooke

  Late modern

• 1797–1820 William Pearce
• 1820–1839 James Wood
• 1839–1858 George Peacock
• 1858–1869 Harvey Goodwin
• 1869–1893 Charles Merivale
• 1893–1905 Charles Stubbs
• 1905–1936 Alexander Kirkpatrick
• 1936–1950 Lionel Blackburne
• 1951–1969 Patrick Hankey
• 1969–1982 Michael Carey
• 1982–1984 Allan Shaw
• 1984–1990 William Patterson
• 1991–2003 Michael Higgins
• 2003–2011 Michael Chandler
• 2012–2012 Canon David Pritchard
• 2012–present Mark Bonney

  Fictional to deans

• Pennyfather, in Agatha Christie's At Bertram's Hotel.