| width="20%"|Tenure | width="40%"|Incumbent | width="20%"|Notes |
| small>1133 to 1156 | Athelwold | Last prior of St Oswald's |
| small>1156 to 1186 | Bernard | Died in office |
| small>1186 to 1218 | vacant | For 32 years |
| small> 1200 to 1203 | Archbishop of Sclavonia | Granted by King John |
| small> 1203 | Alexander de Lucy | Granted by King John |
| small>1218 to 1223 | Hugh deBello Loco | Abbot of Sussex |
| small>1223 to 1246 | Walter Mauclerk
(Walter Maclerk; Walter Malclerk) | Lord Treasurer; resigned |
| small>1246 to 1254 | Silvester de Everdon | Archdeacon of Chester; Lord Chancellor |
| small>1255 to 1256 | Thomas Vipont | |
| small>1258 to 1280 | Robert de Chauncy
(Robert de Chause) | Called by Leland, chaplain to the queen |
| small>1278 | William de Rotherfeld | Elected but refused |
| small>1280 to 1292 | Ralph of Irton
(Rodolph de Ireton) | Prior of Gisborne |
| small>1293 to 1324 | John de Halton
(John de Halghton) | Canon of Carlisle |
| small>1325 | William Ayremyn | Canon of York; elected (but see following) |
| small>1325 to 1332 | John Ross
(John de Rosse) | Canon of Hereford; appointed by Pope John XXII. Son of Robert de Ros, 1st Baron de Ros. |
| small>1332 to 1352 | John Kirkby
(John de Kirkeby) | Canon of Carlisle |
| small>1352 | John Horncastle
(John de Horncastle) | Elected but set aside by Pope Clement VI before consecration |
| small>1353 to 1362 | Gilbert Welton
(Gilbert de Wilton) | |
| small>1363 to 1396 | Thomas Appleby
(Thomas de Appleby) | Canon of Carlisle |
| small>1396 to 1397 | Robert Reed
(Robert Reade) | Translated from Waterford; translated to Chichester |
| small>1397 to 1399 | Thomas Merke
(Thomas Merkes) | Deprived; vicar of Sturminster, Dorset |
| small>1400 to 1419 | William Strickland | |
| small>1420 to 1423 | Roger Whelpdale | Provost of Queen's College, Cambridge |
| small>1423 to 1429 | William Barrow
(William Barrowe) | Translated from Bangor |
| small>1429 to 1449 | Marmaduke Lumley | Archdeacon of Northumberland, Lord Treasurer, Lord Chancellor and Chancellor of Cambridge; translated to Lincoln |
| small>1450 to 1452 | Nicholas Close | Archdeacon of Colchester; translated to Lichfield & Coventry |
| small>1452 to 1462 | William Percy | Prebendary of York, Lincoln and Salisbury; Chancellor of Cambridge |
| small>1462 to 1463 | John Kingscote
(John Kingscotes) | Archdeacon of Gloucester |
| small>1463 to 1468 | Richard Scroope
(Richard Scrope) | Rector of Fen-Ditton, Cambridgeshire |
| small>1468 to 1477 | Edward Story | Chancellor of Cambridge; translated to Chichester |
| small>1477 to 1495 | Richard Bell | Prior of Durham; resigned |
| small>1495 to 1502 | William Senhouse
(William Sever; William Seveyer) | Abbot of St Mary's, York; translated to Durham |
| small>1502 to 1508 | Richard Leyburn
(Roger Leybourn) | Archdeacon of Durham |
| small>1509 to 1520 | John Penny | Translated from Bangor |
| small>1521 to 1537 | John Kite | Archbishop of Armagh |
| small>1537 to 1556 | Robert Aldrich | Provost of Eton and Canon of Windsor |
| small>1557 to 1559 | Owen Oglethorpe | Dean of Windsor; deprived |
| small>1560 to 1570 | John Best | Prebendary of Wells |
| small>1570 to 1577 | Richard Barnes, Bishop of Nottingham | Chancellor and Prebendary of York; translated to Durham |
| small>1577 to 1598 | John May | Prebendary of Ely |
| small>1598 to 1616 | Henry Robinson | Provost of Queen's College, Cambridge |
| small>1616 to 1621 | Robert Snoden
(Robert Snowdon) | Prebendary of Southwell |
| small>1621 to 1622 | Richard Milbourne | Translated to St David's |
| small>1624 to 1626 | Richard Senhouse | Dean of Gloucester |
| small>1626 to 1629 | Francis White | Dean of Carlisle; translated to Norwich |
| small>1629 to 1641 | Barnaby Potter | Provost of Queen's College, Oxford |
| small>1641 to 1655 | James Usher' | Archbishop of Armagh; died in office |
| small>1655 to 1660 | vacant | For 5 years |
| small>1660 to 1664 | Richard Sterne | Master of Jesus College, Cambridge; translated to York |
| small>1664 to 1684 | Edward Rainbowe
(Edward Rainbow) | |
| small>1684 to 1702 | Thomas Smith | Dean of Carlisle |
| small>1702 to 1718 | William Nicolson | Archdeacon and Prebendary of Carlisle; translated to Derry |
| small>1718 to 1723 | Samuel Bradford | Prebendary of Westminster; translated to Rochester |
| small>1723 to 1734 | John Waugh | Dean of Gloucester |
| small>1734 to 1747 | Sir George Fleming, Bart | Dean of Carlisle |
| small>1747 to 1764 | Richard Osbaldeston | Dean of York; translated to London |
| small>1764 to 1768 | Charles Lyttelton | Dean of Exeter |
| small>1768 to 1787 | Edmund Law | Archdeacon of Carlisle |
| small>1787 to 1791 | John Douglas | Canon-resident of St Paul's, London; translated to Salisbury |
| small>1791 to 1808 | The Honourable Edward Venables Vernon | Translated to York, afterwards named Harcourt |
| small>26 January 1808 to 12 August 1827 | Samuel Goodenough | Died in office |
| small>17 September 1827 to February 1856 | The Honourable Hugh Percy | Translated from Rochester; died in office |
| small>25 February 1856 to 1860 | The Honourable Henry Montagu Villiers | Canon of St Paul's, London; translated to Durham |
| small>29 August 1860 to 1 October 1869 | The Honourable Samuel Waldegrave | Canon of Salisbury; died in office |
| small>28 October 1869 to 1891 | Harvey Goodwin | Dean of Ely |
| small>1892 to 1904 | John Bardsley | |
| small>1904 to ???? | || |
| small>???? to 1946 | || |
| small>1946 to ???? | Thomas Bloomer, DD | |
| small>1972 to ???? | Henry David Halsey, BA | |
| small>1989 to ???? | Ian Harland | |
| small>2000 to present | Graham Dow | |