List of masters of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
This is a list of masters of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Fitzwilliam House, the body established in 1869 for non-collegiate students attached to the University of Cambridge, was presided over by a Censor. Once the non-collegiate system was ended and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge was established as a full college of the university in 1966 the college head became known as the Master.
List of censors
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- 1869 - 1881 Ralph Somerset
- 1881 - 1890 Francis Howard
- 1890 - 1907 Tristram Frederick Croft Huddleston
- 1907 - 1924 William Reddaway
- 1924 - 1954 William Thatcher
- 1955 - 1959 William Williams
- 1959 - 1966 Walter Wyatt Grave
List of masters
[edit]| Name | Image | Years in office | Notes | Ref(s). |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Walter Wyatt Grave | 1966 - 1971 | University administrator and lecturer in Spanish | [2] | |
| Edward Miller | 1971 - 1981 | Historian, Chairman of the Victoria County History Project and the History of Parliament Trust, Editor of the Agrarian History of England and Wales | ||
| Sir James Holt | 1981 - 1988 | Medieval historian, President of the Royal Historical Society (1981–1985), Vice-president of the British Academy (1987–89) | ||
| Gordon Cameron | 1988 - 1990 | Economist, Professor of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge | ||
| Alan Cuthbert | 1991 - 1999 | Pharmacologist, Sheild Professor (1979–99) | ||
| Brian F. G. Johnson | 1999 - 2005 | Chemist, executive at EPSRC and Academia Europaea, expert authority on nanoparticles | ||
| Robert Lethbridge | 2005 - 2013 | Studied French language and literature, awarded Chevalier des Palmes académiques, Provost of the Gates Cambridge Trust (2010–13) | ||
| Nicola Padfield | 2013 - 2019 | Criminal law barrister, academic of the Cambridge Institute of Criminology (1992-2004) then Faculty of Law | ||
| Sally Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Huyton | 
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2019 - | Labour peer, former senior government advisor, former Chair of Ofsted | [3] |
References
[edit]- ^ "List". ACAD A Cambridge Alumni Database. Retrieved 12 October 2025.
- ^ Stephen Fleet (15 June 1999). "Obituary: W. W. Grave - Arts & Entertainment". The Independent. Retrieved 12 October 2025.
- ^ "Baroness Morgan of Huyton appointed Master of Fitzwilliam College". Fitzwilliam College. University of Cambridge. 27 February 2019. Archived from the original on 21 April 2021. Retrieved 11 March 2019.