Richard Fletcher, D.D. 1585
Thomas Nevil, D.D. 1590
Iohn Palmer, D.D. 1598
Richard Cleyton, D.D. 1608
George Meriton, D.D. 1612
Henry Beaumont, D.D. 1616
William Pierse, D.D. 1622
Iohn Towers, D.D. 1630
Thomas Jackson, D.D. 1638
Iohn Cosin, D.D. 1640
Edward Rainbow, D.D. 1660
James Duport, D.D. 1664
Simon Patrick 1679
Richard Kidder, D.D. 1689
Samuel Freeman, D.D. 1691
White Kennet, D.D. 1707
Richard Reynolds, LL.D. 1718
William Gee, D.D. 1721
Iohn Mandevil, D.D. 1722
Francis Lockyer, D.D. 1725
Iohn Thomas, D.D. 1740
Robert Lamb, LL.D. 1744
Charles Tarrant, D.D. 1764
Charles M. Sutton, D.D. 1791
Peter Peckard, D.D. 1792
Thomas Kipling, D.D. 1797
James Henry Monk, D.D. 1822
Thomas Turton, D.D. 1830
George Butler, D.D. 1842
Augustus P. Saunders, D.D. 1853
J. J. Stewart Perowne, D.D. 1878

The present Dean of Peterborough, The Very Rev. John James Stewart
Perowne, D.D., was born about the year 1823, and married in 1862 Anna
Maria, third daughter of the late Humphry William Woolrych, Esq.,
Serjeant-at-Law, of Croxley, Hertfordshire. His family is of French
(Huguenot) extraction, which came over to this country at the
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. He was appointed to the Deanery in
August, 1878. He was educated at Norwich Grammar School and at Corpus
Christi College, Cambridge, of which College he became a Fellow. He was
a Bell's University Scholar in 1842, took the Members' Prize for a
Latin Essay on three different occasions, viz., 1844, 1846, and 1847,
and graduated B.A. in 1845, in which year he was also Crosse Scholar,
and in 1848 he proceeded M.A. and was Tyrwhitt's Hebrew Scholar. Eight
years afterwards he took the degree of B.D., having in the meantime
been ordained deacon in 1847 and priest in the same year that he took
his master's degree. In 1855 he was appointed examining chaplain to the
Bishop of Norwich, and was made prebendary of S. Andrew's and canon of
Llandaff cathedral in 1869. In 1872 he became praelector in Theology of
Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 1873 took his degree of D.D., and
became Fellow of Trinity