The following persons have served as Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge:
| Name | Portrait | Term of office | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert de Thorpe | 
|
1347? (fl. 1354) |
c. 1364 |
| Thomas de Bingham |
|
c. 1364 | c. 1374 |
| John Tynmouth or Tinmew |
|
1374? (fl. 1380) |
1385† |
| Richard Morys |
|
1385? (fl. 1389) |
1406? |
| John Sudbury |
|
1406 | 1428 (resigned) |
| John Langton |
|
1428 | 22 May 1447† |
| Hugh Damlet |
|
1447 | 1449 (resigned) |
| Lawrence Booth |
|
31 May 1450 | 19 May 1480† |
| Thomas Rotherham | 
|
1480 | 1488 (resigned) |
| George Fitzhugh |
|
14 September 1488 | November 1505† |
| Roger Leyburn |
|
29 November 1505 | c. 1 August 1507† |
| Richard Foxe | 
|
1507 | 19 October 1518 (resigned) |
| Robert Shorton | 
|
1518 | 1534 (resigned) |
| Robert Swinburn |
|
before 4 October 1534 | October 1537 (resigned) |
| George Folberry |
|
1537 | October 1540† |
| Nicholas Ridley | 
|
October 1540 | 1554 (deprived) |
| John Young (I) | _Pembroke.jpg)
|
24 December 1554 | 20 July 1559 (deprived) |
| Edmund Grindal | 
|
20 July 1559 | 16 August 1561 (resigned) |
| Matthew Hutton | .jpg)
|
14 May 1562 | 1567 (resigned) |
| John Whitgift | 
|
21 April 1567 | July 1567 (resigned) |
| John Young (II) |
|
12 July 1567 | 16 March 1578 (resigned) |
| William Fulke | 
|
10 May 1578 | 28 August 1589† |
| Lancelot Andrewes | 
|
6 September 1589 | 1605 (resigned) |
| Samuel Harsnett | 
|
November 1605 | 18 February 1616 (resigned) |
| Nicholas Felton | 
|
29 June 1616 | 18 February 1619 (resigned) |
| Jerome Beale |
|
21 February 1619 | September 1630† |
| Benjamin Lany | 
|
25 December 1630 | 13 March 1644 (ejected) |
| Richard Vines |
|
13 March 1644 | 1 October 1650 (ejected) |
| Sidrach Simpson | 
|
1650 | April 1655† |
| William Moses |
|
April 1655 | 1660 (ejected) |
| Benjamin Lany |
|
1660 (restored) |
16 August 1662 (resigned) |
| Mark Frank | 
|
23 August 1662 | January 1664† |
| Robert Mapletoft |
|
c. May 1664 | 20 August 1677† |
| Nathaniel Coga |
|
20 August 1677 | 8 January 1694† |
| Thomas Browne |
|
10 February 1694 | 9 March 1707† |
| Edward Lany |
|
19 March 1707 | 9 August 1728† |
| John Hawkins |
|
15 August 1728 | October 1733 (resigned) |
| Roger Long | 
|
12 October 1733 | 16 December 1770† |
| James Brown |
|
16 December 1770 | 30 September 1784† |
| Joseph Turner | 
|
6 October 1784 | 3 August 1828† |
| Gilbert Ainslie | 
|
15 August 1828 | 9 January 1870† |
| John Power | 
|
14 January 1870 | 18 November 1880† |
| Charles Edward Searle | 
|
24 November 1880 | 29 July 1902† |
| Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Bt. | 
|
26 August 1902 | 7 February 1903† |
| Arthur James Mason | 
|
11 March 1903 | 15 June 1912 (resigned) |
| William Sheldon Hadley |
|
19 June 1912 | 25 December 1927† |
| Arthur Hutchinson | 
|
16 January 1928 | 30 September 1937 (retired) |
| Sir Montagu Sherard Dawes Butler | 1 October 1937 | 31 July 1948 (retired) | |
| Sir Sydney Castle Roberts |
|
1 August 1948 | 1958 |
| Sir William Vallance Douglas Hodge |
|
1 August 1958 | 1970 |
| William Anthony Camps |
|
1970 | 1981 |
| The Lord Adrian |
|
1981 | 1992 |
| Sir Roger Tomkys |
|
1992 | 2004 |
| Sir Richard Dearlove | 
|
2004 | 31 July 2015 (retired) |
| The Lord Smith of Finsbury | 
|
2015 | incumbent |
References
- Pembroke College, Cambridge: A Short History: Robert de Thorpe
- ibid.: Thomas de Bingham
- ibid.: Richard Morys
- Robert Sanders (26 March 1997). "Obituary: W. A. Camps". The Independent. Retrieved 4 March 2011.