The warden of New College, Oxford, is the college's principal. The officeholder is responsible for the college's academic leadership, chairing its governing body, and representing it in the outside world.
- 1379–1389: Nicholas Wykeham
- 1389–1396: Thomas Cranley
- 1396–1403: Richard Malford
- 1403–1429: John Bowke or Bouke
- 1429–1435: William Estcourt
- 1435–1454: Nicholas Ossulbury
- 1454–1475: Thomas Chaundler
- 1475–1494: Walter Hyll
- 1494–1520: William Porter
- 1520–1521: John Rede
- 1521–1526: John Young
- 1526–1542: John London
- 1542–1551: Henry Cole
- In 1547, Thomas Harding was named Warden by King Edward VI
- 1551–1553: Ralph Skinner
- 1553–1573: Thomas Whyte, or White
- In 1556, John Harpsfield was elected Warden but did not assume the office.
- 1573–1599: Martin Culpepper
- 1599–1613: George Ryves
- 1613–1617: Arthur Lake
- 1617–1647: Robert Pinck
- 1647–1648: Henry Stringer
- 1649–1658: George Marshall (intruded by the Parliamentary Commissioners)
- 1658–1675: Michael Woodward
- 1675–1679: John Nicholas
- 1679–1701: Henry Beeston
- 1701–1703: Richard Traffles
- 1703–1712: Thomas Brathwait
- 1712–1720: John Cobb
- 1720–1724: John Dobson
- 1725–1730: Henry Bigg
- 1730–1740: John Coxed
- 1740–1764: John Purnell
- 1764–1768: Thomas Hayward
- 1768–1794: John Oglander
- 1794–1822: Samuel Gauntlett
- 1822–1840: Philip Nicholas Shuttleworth
- 1840–1860: Rev. David Williams
- 1860–1903: James Edwards Sewell
- 1903–1924: William Archibald Spooner
- 1925–1940: Herbert Fisher
- 1944–1958: Alic Halford Smith
- 1958–1976: Sir William Hayter
- 1976–1985: Arthur Hafford Cooke
- 1985–1996: Harvey McGregor QC
- 1996–2009: Alan Ryan
- 2009–2016: Sir Curtis Price
- 2016–present: Miles Young
Notes
- ^ 'New College', in A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3: The University of Oxford (1954), pp. 144-162 online at british-history.ac.uk, accessed 26 August 2008.
- Plea rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; National Archives; CP 40 / 647; http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT1/H6/CP40no647/aCP40no647fronts/IMG_0007.htm; third entry, as "Magr' Johes Bouke, custos collegij vocat Seint Marie College of Wynchestre in Oxon"
- DNB: Chandler, Thomas (c. 1418-1490) dean of Hereford; educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford; fellow, 1437; MA; proctor, 1444; BD, 1450; warden of Winchester College, 1460, and of New College, 1461; BCanL, 1451; chancellor of Wells Cathedral 1452; DD and warden of New College, 1455-75; chancellor of Oxford University, 1457-61 and 1472-9, and vice-chancellor, 1463-7 f prebendary of York, St Paul's, Southwell, and Hereford; dean of Hereford, 1482.
- DNB:London, John (1486?-1543), visitor of monasteries; educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford; fellow of New College, 1505-18; D.O.L. and prebendary of York, 1519; treasurer of Lincoln Cathedral, 1522: warden of New College, 1526; attached himself to Cromwell; a commissioner for the visitation of monasteries, 1535-38; after Cromwell's death (1540) attached himself to Stephen Gardiner, and became canon of Windsor; convicted of perjury, stripped of his dignities, and committed to prison, where he died.
- DNB: Cole, Henry (1500-1580), dean of St Paul's ; educated at Winchester; fellow of New College, Oxford, 1521-40, and warden, 1542-51; BCL, 1530; DCL, 1540; DD, 1554; studied in Padua and Paris; lectured on civil law in Oxford; submitted to the Reformation; prebendary of Sarum, 1539; advocate of the arches and prebendary of St Paul's, 1540; rector of Chelmsford, Essex, 1540-8, and of Newton Longueyille, Buckinghamshire, 1545-52; joined Roman catholic party at Mary's accession; archdeacon of Ely, 1553-6; canon of Westminster and provost of Eton, 1564-69; held disputation with Cranmer at Oxford, 1554; appointed to preach at Cranmer's execution, 1556: one of Cardinal Pole's commissioners to visit Oxford University, 1556, and Cambridge, 1567; dean of St Paul's, 1556-59; vicar-general of the archbishop of Canterbury, 1557-58; sent to Ireland to extirpate protestantism, 1568; one of the eight Romanist disputants at Westminster Abbey, 1559; imprisoned, from 1560 to c. 1579, d. 1580
- DNB: Thomas Harding (1516-1572) educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford; fellow of New College, 1536; MA, 1542; Hebrew professor and chaplain to Henry Grey, marquis of Dorchester, afterwards Duke of Suffolk; named Warden of New College by Edward VI.
- DNB: White, Thomas (1514–1588).
- William Wizeman, "Harpsfield, John (1516–1578)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
- DNB: Lake, Arthur (1569-1626), bishop of Bath and Wells; brother of Sir Thomas Lake; educated at Winchester: fellow of New College, Oxford, 1589; MA, 1696; master of St Cross Hospital, Winchester, 1603; DD, 1606; dean of Worcester, 1608; warden of New College, 1613; vice-chancellor of Oxford and bishop of Bath and Wells, 1616-36.
- Hegarty, A. J., 'Pinck, Robert (bap. 1573, d. 1647)', in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edition, January 2008 (subscription required): Pinck, Robert, accessed 26 August 2008.
- DNB: Shuttleworth, Philip Nicholas (1782-1842), bishop of Chichester; educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford; MA, 1811; DD, 1822; warden of New College, Oxford, 1822-40, and bishop of Chichester, 1840-42
- Born 15 October 1786, at Lasham, Hampshire, he died 22 March 1860 at New College. He was previously Master of Winchester College and was Vice Chancellor of the University, 1856-1858.
- SEWELL, Rev. James Edwards, in Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2007; online edition by Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 26 August 2008 (subscription required).
- SPOONER, Rev. William Archibald, in Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2007; online edition by Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 26 August 2008 (subscription required).
- FISHER, Rt. Hon. Herbert Albert Laurens, in Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2007; online edition by Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 26 August 2008 (subscription required).
- Smith, Alic Halford, in Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2007; online edition by Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 26 August 2008 (subscription required).
- Smith, Alic Halford at economia.unipv.it, accessed 26 August 2008
- Ireland, George, in The Independent (London), dated March 30, 1995, online at findarticles.com, accessed 22 July 2008.
- COOKE, Dr Arthur Hafford, in Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2007; online edition by Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 26 August 2008 (subscription required)
- CV of Harvey McGregor QC at hailshamchambers.com, accessed 22 July 2008.
- 'McGREGOR, Harvey', in Who's Who 2008, A & C Black, 2008, online edition by Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 26 August 2008 (subscription required).
- RYAN, Prof. Alan James, in Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2007; online edition by Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 26 August 2008 (subscription required)
- New Warden for New College, news release dated 10 June 2008.
- "Appointment of Next Warden". Archived from the original on 18 June 2015. Retrieved 13 September 2016.