Lives of the Bishops of Exeter

In 1861, the Reverend Goerge Oliver D.D. published his 'Lives of the Bishops of Exeter', with biographies of the bishops from Leofric to Bishop Phillpotts:

• Leofric 1050-72
• Osbern 1072-1104
• William Warelwast 1107-37
• Robert Warelwast 1138-55 *
• Robert Chichester 1155-60 *
• Bartholomew Iscanus 1161-84
• John the Chanter 1186-91
• Henry Marshall 1194-1206
• Simon of Apulia 1214-23
• William Brewer 1224-44
• Richard Blondy 1245-57
• Walter Bronescombe 1258-80
• Peter Quinil 1280-91
• Thomas Bitton 1292-1307
• Walter Stapeldon 1308-26
• James Berkeley 1326-7
• John Grandisson 1327-69
• Thomas Brantyngham 1370-94
• Edmund Stafford 1395-1419
• John Katterick 1419  
• James Cary 1420 †
• Edmund Lacy 1420-55
• George Neville 1456-65
• John Bothe 1465-78
• Peter Courtenay 1478-87
• Richard Fox 1487-92
• Oliver King 1493-5
• Richard Redmayne 1496-1501
• John Arundel 1502-4
• Hugh Oldham 1504-19
• John Veysey 1519-51
• Miles Coverdale 1551-3
• John Veysey 1553-4
• James Turberville 1554-59
• William Alley 1560-70
• William Bradbridge 1570-8
• John Woolton 1579-93
• Gervase Babington 1595-7
• William Cotton 1598-1621
• Valentine Carey 1621-6
• Joseph Hall 1627-41
• Ralph Brownrigg 1642-59
• John Gauden 1660-2
• Seth Ward 1662-7
• Anthony Sparrow 1667-76
• Thomas Lamplugh 1676-88
• John Trelawny 1688-1707
• Offspring Blackall 1708-16
• Launcelot Blackburn 1717-24
• Stephen Weston 1724-42
• Nicholas Clagget 1742-6
• George Lavington 1747-62
• Frederick Keppel 1763-77
• John Ross 1778-92
• William Buller 1792-6
• Henry Courtenay 1797-1803
• John Fisher 1803-7
• George Pelham 1807-20
• William Carey 1820-30
• Christopher Bethell 1830
• Henry Phillpotts 1830-69
• Frederick Temple 1869-85
• Edward Bickersteth 1885-1900
• Herbert Ryle 1901-3
• Archibald Robertson 1903-16
• William Cecil 1916-36
• Charles Curzon 1936-48
• Robert Mortimer 1949-73
• Eric Mercer 1973-85
• Hewlett Thompson 1985-1999
• Michael Langrish 2000-

*   Oliver lists these two in the wrong order. (The List in the Chapter house was originally taken from Oliver.)
†   Omitted by Oliver.

Oliver's notes on the Deans of Exeter

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