List of masters of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
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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.
Censors of Fitzwilliam House, Cambridge[edit]
- 1869 - 1881 Ralph Benjamin Somerset
- 1881 - 1890 Francis George Howard
- 1890 - 1907 Tristram Frederick Croft Huddleston
- 1907 - 1924 William Fiddian Reddaway
- 1924 - 1954 William Sutherland Thatcher
- 1955 - 1959 William Washington Williams
- 1959 - 1966 Walter Wyatt Grave
Masters of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge[edit]
| Name | Years in office | Career |
|---|---|---|
| Walter Wyatt Grave | 1966 - 1971 | Academic administrator |
| 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 |
| 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 | Expert on French Language and Literature, awarded Chevalier des Palmes académiques, Provost of the Gates Cambridge Trust (2010–13) |
| Nicola Padfield | 2013 - 2019 | Expert on Criminal and Penal Justice |
| Sally Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Huyton | 2019 - | Labour peer, former senior government advisor, former Chair of Ofsted |