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[[File:John Wallis by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt.jpg|thumb|upright|alt=An elderly man with some strands of white hair visible from beneath a close-fitting black cap; he is wearing red and black robes with a red academical hood and broad white bands at his collar|The mathematician [[John Wallis]], Keeper of the Archives from 1658 to 1703.]]

The position of '''Keeper of the Archives''' at the [[University of Oxford]] in England dates from 1634, when it was established by new statutes for the university brought in by [[William Laud]] ([[Archbishop of Canterbury]] and [[Chancellor of the University of Oxford|Chancellor of the University]]). The first holder of the post was [[Brian Twyne]], who prepared an index of the archives in 1631 as part of the preparatory work for the statutes: he was appointed Keeper of the Archives as a reward for his work. The archives were moved from the [[University Church of St Mary the Virgin]] into the Tower of the Five Orders in the [[Bodleian Library]] under Twyne and his successor, and some of the storage cupboards built at that time are still in use. The archives include [[charter]]s, title deeds, university registers and records, and other official documentation from the university (but not from the [[Colleges of the University of Oxford|colleges of the university]], which keep their own archives). Most of the material dates from the 19th and 20th centuries, with few photographs and no sound or video recordings.

In total, 22 people have held the position. Of [[Philip Bliss (academic)|Philip Bliss]], who was Keeper of the Archives for 31&nbsp;years in the 19th century, it was said that "his penchant for accumulation seems to have impeded administrative efficiency".<ref name=Bliss/> [[Reginald Lane Poole]], who was in office from 1909 to 1927, took a much narrower view on what should be kept, and criticised his predecessors for their "fatal inability&nbsp;... to destroy things when they are done with".<ref name=Poole/> The third to hold the position, [[John Wallis]] (who was also [[Savilian Professor of Geometry]]), prepared an index of the collection that was still used into the 20th century. He was succeeded by [[Simon Bailey (archivist)|Simon Bailey]], who was the first full-time Keeper of the Archives. Bailey was previously the Archivist under his predecessor, [[David Vaisey]], but a decision was taken to combine the two posts in 2000. The Archives became part of the Bodleian Library in August 2010. The current Keeper is [[Faye McLeod (archivist)|Faye McLeod]]. 

==History and role==
[[File:Philip Bliss.jpg|thumb|upright|alt=A man in red academic robes sitting in a chair with a city scene visible through a window|[[Philip Bliss (academic)|Philip Bliss]], Keeper of the Archives from 1826 to 1857.]]
The position of Keeper of the Archives at the [[University of Oxford]] dates from 1634. The university's records pre-date this, and it claims to have one of the longest continuous [[Archive|record-keeping]] traditions in Britain.<ref name=Bod>{{cite web|url=http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/news/2010-08-03|title=Oxford University Archives become part of the Bodleian Libraries|publisher=[[Bodleian Library|Bodleian Libraries]], University of Oxford|date=3 August 2010|access-date=14 September 2010|archive-date=12 August 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100812180539/http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/news/2010-08-03|url-status=live}}</ref> Records were initially kept in the [[Priory of St Frideswide, Oxford|Priory of St Frideswide]] (the site of the present-day [[Christ Church, Oxford|Christ Church]]), moving to the [[University Church of St Mary the Virgin]] in the 14th century, where they were housed with money and other valuables. The archives were left in considerable disarray by a burglary in 1544, and remained in chaos until [[Brian Twyne]] attended to them in the 17th century.<ref name=History/> As part of his work as a member of the committee preparing new statutes for the university (at the request of the [[Chancellor of the University of Oxford|Chancellor of the University]], [[William Laud]]), Twyne prepared an index of the archives by 1631, and was appointed the first Keeper of the Archives under the revised statutes in 1634 as a reward for his work.<ref name=Hegarty/> Under Twyne and [[Gerard Langbaine the elder|Gerard Langbaine]], his successor as Keeper, the archives were moved into one of the rooms in the Tower of the Five Orders in the [[Bodleian Library]]; three of the wooden cupboards that were built at that time to store them are still in use.<ref name=History>{{cite web|title=History of the Archives|publisher=University of Oxford|url=http://www.oua.ox.ac.uk/history.html|access-date=24 August 2010|year=2008|archive-date=9 October 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101009214410/http://www.oua.ox.ac.uk/history.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

The 1634 statutes stated that "the careless keeping of the archives of our University, and the gross ignorance of our privileges" had led to "many mischiefs and losses", particularly in the "almost daily contests with the citizens of Oxford" described by it as "ancient rivals" who "catch at every occasion of impugning our privileges".<ref name=Laud/> The statutes provided that "hereafter and for ever, some person shall be sought for", to collect and guard the archives, "that he may produce them without delay whenever occasion requires it".<ref name=Laud/> This person was to assist the senior officers of the university and be "an unembarrassed and ready champion in guarding and defending the University privileges and rights."<ref name=Laud/> Students at the university (unless exempted by poverty) were to pay 1 [[shilling (British coin)|shilling]] towards defence of Oxford's rights, and £40 from this fund was to be paid to the Keeper of the Archives as his salary. Under the 1634 statutes, [[Convocation]] (the main governing body of the university at the time) chose the Keeper of the Archives, and there were sometimes contested elections for the position; under the modern statutes, the position is filled by decision of the Committee for the Archives.<ref name=Laud>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/statutes00oxfogoog|chapter=Section 9. Of the appointment of the Public Keeper of the Archives of the University |pages=[https://archive.org/details/statutes00oxfogoog/page/n262 194]–195|title=Oxford University Statutes, Volume 1|author=University of Oxford|translator-first=G. R. M. |translator-last=Ward |year=1845 |location=London |publisher=William Pickering|access-date=16 September 2010}}</ref><ref name=RegArc>{{cite web|url=http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/statutes/regulations/181-084.shtml#_Toc86825827|title=Council Regulations 2 of 2004|publisher=University of Oxford|access-date=16 September 2010|date=7 April 2010|archive-date=5 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005032814/http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/statutes/regulations/181-084.shtml#_Toc86825827|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:Jeffrey Hackney, July 2010.jpg|thumb|upright|left|[[Jeffrey Hackney]], who held the position from 1987 to 1995 (pictured in 2010).]]
The scope of the archives is defined by a university regulation. It includes [[charter]]s, title deeds, copies of university statutes and regulations, records maintained by the [[Registrar of the University of Oxford|university's Registrar]] and minutes of meetings, as well as any other official material from the university or its departments that is not in current use and whose preservation is "desirable" in the opinion of the Committee for the Archives.<ref name=RegArc/> The university archives do not contain material from the [[Colleges of the University of Oxford|colleges of the university]], which hold their material separately.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oua.ox.ac.uk/holdings/relatedrecs.html|title=Related records|publisher=University of Oxford|year=2010|access-date=14 September 2010|archive-date=9 October 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101009214420/http://www.oua.ox.ac.uk/holdings/relatedrecs.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The earliest document held, dating from 1214, is a decision of a [[Papal legate]] in a dispute between the town of [[Oxford]] and the university.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oua.ox.ac.uk/holdings/1214%20document.html|title=Holdings: 1214 document|publisher=University of Oxford|year=2008|access-date=14 September 2010|archive-date=11 May 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100511162157/http://www.oua.ox.ac.uk/holdings/1214%20document.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The majority of the archives date from the 19th and 20th centuries, and are mainly in paper format, with only a few photographs and no sound or video recordings.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oua.ox.ac.uk/holdings/index.html|title=Holdings|publisher=University of Oxford|year=2008|access-date=14 September 2010|archive-date=9 October 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101009214415/http://www.oua.ox.ac.uk/holdings/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref> 
The archives became part of the Bodleian Library in August 2010, with the Keeper of the Archives reporting to the library's Keeper of Special Collections and Associate Director. Bailey was the first full-time Keeper of the Archives: he was previously the Archivist under his predecessor, David Vaisey, but a decision was taken to combine the two posts in 2000.<ref name=archivesCombine>{{cite web|url=https://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/2000-1/weekly/210900/notc.htm#10Ref|title=Oxford University Gazette, 21 September 2000: Notices|year=2000|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170320214311/https://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/2000-1/weekly/210900/notc.htm#10Ref|access-date=9 December 2020|archive-date=20 March 2017}}</ref> The Archives became part of the Bodleian's Archives & Modern Manuscripts division in April 2020 and the current Keeper ([[Faye McLeod (archivist)|Faye McLeod]], appointed July 2020) now reports to the library’s Head of Archives & Modern Manuscripts. The Keeper works with an Assistant Keeper (a role split between two people each working part-time) and an Archives Assistant.<ref name=Bod/>  Some of the holders of the position have been appointed to a Fellowship of one of the colleges; unlike some of the professorships at Oxford, it is not linked to a particular college.
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==List of Keepers of the Archives==
In the table below, "college" indicates the [[Colleges of the University of Oxford|college or hall of the university]] (if any) at which the individual held an official position, such as a [[Oxbridge Fellow|fellowship]], during his time as Keeper of the Archives.
{|class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
! scope = "column" width=12%|Name
!Image
! scope = "column" width=7%|Position held
! scope = "column" width=12%|Education<ref group="n">At the University of Oxford, unless otherwise indicated</ref>
! scope = "column" width=12%|College
! scope = "column" class="unsortable"|Notes
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! scope= "row" |{{sortname|Brian|Twyne}}
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|align="center"|1634–1644
|{{hs|Oxford, Corpus}}[[Corpus Christi College, Oxford|Corpus Christi College]]
|align="center"|{{hs|ZZZ}}—{{#tag:ref|Twyne resigned his fellowship at Corpus Christi by 1623.<ref>{{cite journal|first=Strickland|last=Gibson|journal=Oxoniensia|volume=V|year=1940|title=Brian Twyne|url=http://oxoniensia.org/volumes/1940/gibson.pdf|access-date=24 August 2010|publisher=[[Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society]]|page=101|archive-date=18 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718215528/http://oxoniensia.org/volumes/1940/gibson.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>|group="n"}}
|Twyne played a leading role in revising the university's statutes under [[William Laud]] ([[Chancellor of the University of Oxford|Chancellor of the University]] and [[Archbishop of Canterbury]]) and was appointed as the first Keeper of the Archives as a reward. He also worked extensively on the archives of Corpus Christi.<ref name=Hegarty>{{cite ODNB|first=A. J. |last=Hegarty|title=Twyne, Brian (1581–1644)|date= September 2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/27924 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/27924|access-date=24 August 2010}} </ref> A later Keeper of the Archives, [[Strickland Gibson]], described him as "one of the greatest of Oxford antiquaries", and said that his extensive collection of manuscripts were "one of his greatest achievements, and in themselves a monument."<ref>{{cite journal|first=Strickland|last=Gibson|journal=Oxoniensia|url=http://oxoniensia.org/volumes/1940/gibson.pdf|access-date=24 August 2010|volume=V|year=1940|title=Brian Twyne|publisher=Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society|pages=94, 109|archive-date=18 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718215528/http://oxoniensia.org/volumes/1940/gibson.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-valign="top"
! scope= "row" |{{sortname|Gerard |Langbaine |Gerard Langbaine the elder}}
|
|align="center"|1644–1658	
|{{hs|Oxford, Queen's}}[[The Queen's College, Oxford|The Queen's College]]
|{{hs|Queen's}}[[The Queen's College, Oxford|The Queen's College]]
|Langbaine, a [[Oxbridge Fellow|Fellow]] (1633–1646) then the [[Provost (education)|Provost]] of Queen's (1646–1658), had a wide-ranging interest in Oxford libraries and manuscripts. He helped with the negotiations for Oxford's surrender to the Parliamentary forces during the [[English Civil War]] in 1646, and thereafter wrote various documents attempting to protect the university's position from parliament and the city. He made a catalogue of Greek-language manuscripts held by the university and college libraries, and also worked on behalf of the university press. He died in 1658 of "an extreme cold" acquired, it was reported, by sitting in the unheated [[Bodleian Library]] during winter and working in his study without food or fire.<ref>{{cite ODNB|first=A. J. |last=Hegarty|title=Langbaine, Gerard (1608/9–1658)|date=October 2008 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/16006 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/16006|access-date=26 August 2010}} </ref>
|-valign="top"
! scope= "row" |{{sortname|John |Wallis}}
|[[File:John Wallis by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt.jpg|frameless|110px]]
|align="center"|1658–1703
|{{hs|Cambridge, Emma}}[[University of Cambridge]] ([[Emmanuel College, Cambridge|Emmanuel College]])
|align="center"|{{hs|ZZZ}}—{{#tag:ref|Wallis incorporated as a member of the university through [[Exeter College, Oxford|Exeter College]], but did not hold a fellowship there.<ref name=Wallis/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/historicalregis01oxfogoog#page/n55/mode/2up/search/savilian|title=The historical register of the University of Oxford|year=1900|page=53|access-date=11 March 2010|location=Oxford|publisher=Clarendon Press}}</ref>|group="n"}}
|Wallis was one of the founding members of the [[Royal Society]], writing over sixty papers and book reviews for it. He was appointed [[Savilian Professor of Geometry]] at Oxford in 1649, and was "one of the leading mathematicians of his time":<ref name=Wallis/> he introduced <math>\infty</math> as the sign for [[infinity]], influenced [[Isaac Newton]] with his writings, and took part in various mathematical debates with scholars such as [[Blaise Pascal]] and [[Thomas Hobbes]]. He became Keeper of the Archives by "a somewhat doubtful procedure",<ref name=Wallis/> leading to a written protest from the scholar [[Henry Stubbe]]. However, he is said to have won over his opponents by his work, ensuring that the archives were kept in excellent order; his index of the collection was still used into the 20th century.<ref name=Wallis>{{cite ODNB|first=Domenico Bertoloni |last=Meli|title=Wallis, John (1616–1703)|date=May 2007 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/28572 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/28572|access-date=25 February 2010}} </ref>
|-valign="top"
! scope= "row" |{{sortname|Bernard |Gardiner}}
|
|align="center"|1703–1726
|{{hs|Oxford, Magdalen}}[[Magdalen College, Oxford|Magdalen College]]
|[[All Souls College, Oxford|All Souls College]]
|Gardiner, a [[Oxbridge Fellow|Fellow]] of All Souls from 1689 and [[Warden (college)|Warden]] of the college from 1702, also served as [[Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford|Vice-Chancellor of the university]] from 1712 to 1715. He took steps to ensure that fellows of the [[colleges of the University of Oxford|Oxford colleges]] complied with their obligations to reside in Oxford and, for fellows at some colleges, to become priests&nbsp;– a campaign in which he had some, but not complete, success since some of the errant fellows had powerful supporters.<ref>{{cite ODNB|first=William |last=Gibson|title=Gardiner, Bernard (1668–1726)|date=October 2005|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/10355 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/10355|access-date=31 August 2010}} </ref>
|-valign="top"
! scope= "row" |{{sortname|Francis|Wise}}
|
|align="center"|1726–1767
|{{hs|Oxford, Trinity}}[[Trinity College, Oxford|Trinity College]]
|[[Trinity College, Oxford|Trinity College]]
|Wise, under-keeper of the [[Bodleian Library]] from 1719, tried but failed to become [[Bodley's Librarian]] in 1729 and President of Trinity College in 1731.  He did, however, win the election for the position of Keeper of the Archives in 1726, in which he was the only [[Whig (British political party)|Whig]] candidate.  He carried out no new work with the archives, unlike his predecessors, but worked in areas including as [[numismatics]] and Anglo-Saxon studies, attempting the first scholarly edition of [[Asser]]'s Life of [[Alfred the Great]] and endeavouring to sift the genuine medieval text from the later additions.<ref>{{cite ODNB|author1=Clunies Ross, Margaret |author2=Collins, Amanda J |title=Wise, Francis (1695–1767)|date=January 2006 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/29786 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29786| access-date=31 August 2010}} </ref>
|-valign="top"
! scope= "row" |{{sortname|John |Swinton |John Swinton (1703–1777)}}
|
|align="center"|1767–1777
|{{hs|Oxford, Wadham}}[[Wadham College, Oxford|Wadham College]]
|align="center"|{{hs|ZZZ}}—{{#tag:ref|Swinton resigned his fellowship at Wadham in 1743 and later took his [[Bachelor of Divinity]] degree through [[Christ Church, Oxford]], but did not hold a college appointment there.<ref name=Swinton/>|group="n"}}
|Swinton travelled to Italy as a chaplain soon after his appointment as a [[Oxbridge Fellow|Fellow]] of Wadham in 1729, returning in 1734. He was involved in a homosexual scandal that caused [[Robert Thistlethwayte]], Warden of Wadham, to resign in 1739; Swinton left his fellowship in 1743 on appointment as a [[prebendary]] of [[St Asaph's Cathedral|St Asaph]], north Wales. He had a reputation as a learned scholar of oriental and Arabic topics, writing articles for the [[Royal Society]], of which he was a fellow.<ref name=Swinton>{{cite ODNB|first1=E. I. |last1=Carlyle|title=Swinton, John (1703–1777)|first2=Rictor|last2=Norton|editor-first1=Rictor |editor-last1=Norton |year=2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/26852 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26852|access-date=26 August 2010}} </ref>
|-valign="top"
! scope= "row" |{{sortname|Benjamin|Buckler}}
|
|align="center"|1777–1781
|{{hs|Oxford, Oriel}}[[Oriel College, Oxford|Oriel College]]
|[[All Souls College, Oxford|All Souls College]]
|Buckler was a friend of the lawyer [[William Blackstone]] (later the first [[Vinerian Professor of English Law]]); both were Fellows of All Souls and supporters of the [[Tory (British political party)|Tory]] party, and helped to ensure the election of Tories in positions of power within the university. He also supported in print the tradition of All Souls that a mallard had been discovered in its foundations in 1438 (commemorated in the ''[[Mallard Song]]'') against claims that it was only a goose.<ref>{{cite ODNB|first=Leonard W. |last=Cowie|title=Buckler, Benjamin (1716/17–1780)|date=January 2008 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/3862 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3862|access-date=31 August 2010}} </ref>
|-valign="top"
! scope= "row" |{{sortname|Thomas |Wenman}}
|
|align="center"|1781–1796
|{{hs|Oxford, University}}[[University College, Oxford|University College]]
|[[All Souls College, Oxford|All Souls College]]
|Wenman became a [[Oxbridge Fellow|Fellow]] of All Souls in 1765 and a [[barrister]] (as a member of the [[Inner Temple]]) in 1770. He was the Member of Parliament for [[Westbury (UK Parliament constituency)|Westbury]] for six years but only made one speech. He also held the position of [[Regius Professor of Civil Law (Oxford)|Regius Professor of Civil Law]] from 1789 onwards, but stopped lecturing as few students attended.  He died in 1796, drowning in the [[River Cherwell]] when collecting botanical specimens, one of his hobbies.<ref>{{cite ODNB|author=Courney, W. P. |others=Revised by Mercer, M. J. |title=Wenman, Thomas Francis (1745–1796)|year=2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/29047 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29047|access-date=1 September 2010}} </ref>
|-valign="top"
! scope= "row" |{{sortname|Whittington|Landon}}
|
|align="center"|1796–1815
|{{hs|Oxford, Worcester}}[[Worcester College, Oxford|Worcester College]]
|[[Worcester College, Oxford|Worcester College]]
|Landon was elected a [[Oxbridge Fellow|Fellow]] of Worcester in 1782, and became Provost in 1795 (holding this position until his death in 1838). He also served as [[Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford]] from 1802 to 1806, and was [[Dean of Exeter]] from 1813 until his death.<ref>{{alox2|title=Landon, Whittington}}</ref>
|-valign="top"
! scope= "row" |{{sortname|James |Ingram|James Ingram (academic)}}
|
|align="center"|1815–1818
|{{hs|Oxford, Trinity}}[[Trinity College, Oxford|Trinity College]]
|[[Trinity College, Oxford|Trinity College]]
|Ingram, a [[Oxbridge Fellow|Fellow]] of Trinity from 1803 onwards, was also [[Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon]] (1803 to 1808) and President of Trinity (from 1824 until his death in 1850). His academic interests in Anglo-Saxon and archaeology meant that he had little time to attend to the business of the college or university.<ref>{{cite ODNB|author1=Greenhill, W. A. |author2=rev Haigh, John D. |title=Ingram, James (1774–1850)|date=October 2009 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/14417 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14417|access-date=1 September 2010}} </ref>
|-valign="top"
! scope= "row" |{{sortname|George Leigh |Cooke}}
|
|align="center"|1818–1826
|{{hs|Oxford, Balliol}}[[Balliol College, Oxford|Balliol College]] and [[Corpus Christi College, Oxford|Corpus Christi College]]
|align="center"|{{hs|ZZZ}}—{{#tag:ref|Cooke resigned his fellowship at Corpus Christi in 1815 to marry.<ref name=Cooke/>|group="n"}}
|Cooke was initially a student at Balliol before transferring to Corpus Christi with a scholarship. He was appointed [[Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy]] in 1810, retaining this post until his death in 1853. He was regarded as a sociable individual, who was one of the main figures of the Literary Dining Club for Oxford academics.<ref name=Cooke>{{cite ODNB|author=Anon., revised by McConnell, Anita|title=George Leigh (bap. 1779, d. 1853)|year= 2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/6165 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/6165|access-date=23 August 2010}} </ref>
|-valign="top"
! scope= "row" |{{sortname|Philip |Bliss|Philip Bliss (academic)}}
|[[File:Philip Bliss.jpg|frameless|110px]]
|align="center"|1826–1857
|{{hs|Oxford, St John's}}[[St John's College, Oxford|St John's College]]
|[[St John's College, Oxford|St John's College]] and [[St Mary Hall, Oxford|St Mary Hall]]
|Bliss, an antiquarian and book collector, was appointed a [[Oxbridge Fellow|Fellow]] of St John's in 1809 and was also junior sub-librarian at the [[Bodleian Library]] from 1822 to 1828. He served as [[Registrar of the University of Oxford]] from 1824 to 1853. One writer has stated that "his penchant for accumulation seems to have impeded administrative efficiency", although adding that "his prominence and diligence in university business and his polished manners made him the embodiment of the traditions of ancien régime Oxford."<ref name=Bliss/> He was principal of [[St Mary Hall, Oxford|St Mary Hall]] from 1848 until his death in the principal's lodgings in 1857.<ref name=Bliss>{{cite ODNB|first=Alan |last=Bell|title=Bliss, Philip (1787–1857)|id=2654}}</ref>
|-valign="top"
! scope= "row" |{{sortname|John|Griffiths |John Griffiths (academic)}}
|
|align="center"|1857–1885
|{{hs|Oxford, Wadham}}[[Wadham College, Oxford|Wadham College]]
|[[Wadham College, Oxford|Wadham College]]{{#tag:ref|Griffiths was [[Warden (college)|Warden]] of Wadham from 1871 to 1881; before becoming Keeper of the Archives, he was a Fellow of Wadham from 1830 to 1854.<ref name=Griffiths/>|group="n"}}
|Griffiths lectured in classics and divinity at Wadham, and protested against the Anglo-Catholic [[John Henry Newman]]'s [[Tract 90]]. As well as editions of classical texts, he produced works linked to the university's history, including ''An Index to Wills Proved in the Court of the Chancellor of the University of Oxford'' (1862), and an edition of the [[William Laud|Laudian]] university statutes (1888).<ref name=Griffiths>{{cite ODNB |author1=Greenhill, W. A. |others=Revised by Bailey, Simon |title=Griffiths, John (1806–1885) |date=January 2008 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/11620 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11620 |access-date=2 September 2010}} </ref> He was appointed to assist Bliss, his predecessor, a few days before Bliss died.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yZ_PAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA677 |journal=[[The Gentleman's Magazine|The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review]]| volume=203 |title=Rev. Philip Bliss D.C.L. F.S.A.|pages=677–678|date=December 1857|access-date=7 September 2010|author=[[Edward Cave|Cave, Edward]] (writing as "Sylvanus Urban") |location=London |publisher=John Henry and James Park}}</ref>
|-valign="top"
! scope= "row" |{{sortname|Thomas Vere|Bayne}}
|
|align="center"|1885–1909
|{{hs|Oxford, Christ Church}}[[Christ Church, Oxford|Christ Church]]
|[[Christ Church, Oxford|Christ Church]]
|Bayne was a friend from childhood of Charles Dodgson (better known as [[Lewis Carroll]], the author of the ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'' stories), and they went on to study and work at the same Oxford college.<ref name=Lewis>{{cite web|url=http://lewiscarrollsociety.org.uk/pages/aboutcharlesdodgson/life/lifeoxford.html|title=The Life of Charles Dodgson: Oxford Contemporaries|publisher=The Lewis Carroll Society|access-date=24 August 2010|date=17 March 2010|archive-date=19 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719025029/http://lewiscarrollsociety.org.uk/pages/aboutcharlesdodgson/life/lifeoxford.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was an ordained [[Church of England|Anglican]] priest, and served as university [[Proctor#Oxford University|Proctor]] in 1867.<ref>{{alox2|title=Bayne, Rev. Thomas Vere}}</ref> He died in 1908, and was remembered during the oration at the [[Encaenia]] of that year.<ref name=Lewis/><ref>{{Cite news|work=[[The Times]]|location=London|title=The Encaenia at Oxford |author=Special Correspondent|date=25 June 1908|page=10}}</ref>
|-valign="top"
! scope= "row" |{{sortname|Reginald Lane |Poole}}
|
|align="center"|1909–1927
|{{hs|Oxford, Balliol}}[[Balliol College, Oxford|Balliol College]]
|[[Jesus College, Oxford|Jesus College]] and [[Magdalen College, Oxford|Magdalen College]]{{#tag:ref|Poole held a lectureship, but not a fellowship, at Jesus from 1886 to 1910, and a fellowship at Magdalen from 1898 to 1933.<ref name=Poole/>|group="n"}}
|Poole studied classics, theology and history (obtaining degrees in the latter two subjects) before working for a time in the manuscripts department of the British Museum (now the [[British Library]]). Returning to Oxford in 1883 after travel abroad and marriage, he was university lecturer in [[diplomatics|Diplomatic]] from 1896 onwards.<ref name=Poole/> He was elected Keeper of the Archives, defeating William Henry Stevenson by 250 votes to 95, on 3 June 1909.<ref>{{Cite news|work=The Times |location=London|title=University Intelligence&nbsp;– Oxford|date= 5 June 1909|page=4}}</ref> He was the first to hold the position under revised statutes altering its role, and he described the change as a "glaring falsification of history". He took a very narrow view on what should be kept in the archives, criticising his predecessors for their "fatal inability... to destroy things when they are done with".<ref name=Poole/> He resigned his university posts in 1927 when he was 70, his health failing.<ref name=Poole>{{cite ODNB|last=Bailey|first=Simon|title=Poole, Reginald Lane (1857–1939)|date=January 2008 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/35568 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35568|access-date=7 September 2010}} </ref>
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! scope= "row" |{{sortname|Strickland|Gibson}}
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|align="center"|1927–1945	
|{{hs|Oxford, St Catherine}}[[St Catherine's Society]]
|align="center"|{{hs|ZZZ}}—{{#tag:ref|Gibson did not hold a college appointment.<ref name=GibsonWho/>|group="n"}}
|Gibson held various posts at the [[Bodleian Library]], rising to Sub-Librarian (1931–1945), and was also a university lecturer in bibliography. His main area of study was book binding, becoming "a master in that field" in the words of ''[[The Times]]''.<ref name=Times>{{Cite news |work=The Times|location=London|title=Mr. Strickland Gibson Librarian And Bibliographer|date=20 February 1958|page=10}}</ref> His other publications included studies of Oxford libraries, the ancient statutes of the university, and Oxford's ceremonies.<ref name=GibsonWho>{{cite web|title=Gibson, Strickland|work=Who Was Who, 1920–2008|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=December 2007 |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U237641|access-date=25 August 2010}}</ref> He was awarded the Gold Medal of the [[Bibliographical Society]] in 1947 in recognition of his work as a bibliographer.<ref>{{Cite news|work=The Times|location=London|title=Medal for bibliography|date=16 March 1948 |page=6}}</ref>
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! scope= "row" |{{sortname|William Abel |Pantin}}
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|align="center"|1946–1969
|{{hs|Oxford, Christ Church}}[[Christ Church, Oxford|Christ Church]]
|[[Oriel College, Oxford|Oriel College]]
|Pantin lectured at the [[University of Manchester]] before returning to Oxford in 1933 to teach history at Oriel; he was a university lecturer in mediaeval archaeology and history from 1937 onwards. His publications included ''The English Church in the Fourteenth Century'' (1955) and ''Oxford Life in Oxford Archives'' (1972).<ref name=Who>{{cite web|title=Pantin, William Abel|work=Who Was Who 1920–2008|publisher=Oxford University Press|date= December 2007 |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U158229|access-date=3 September 2010}}</ref>
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! scope= "row" |{{sortname|Trevor |Aston}}
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|align="center"|1969–1985
|{{hs|Oxford, St John's}}[[St John's College, Oxford|St John's College]]
|[[Corpus Christi College, Oxford|Corpus Christi College]]
|Aston, appointed as a [[Oxbridge Fellow|Fellow]] and Tutor in history at Corpus Christi in 1952, became the first director of research and general editor of the ''History of the University of Oxford'', published in eight volumes (although only one volume appeared before his death). He also edited the historical journal ''[[Past & Present (journal)|Past & Present]]'' from 1960 until his death in 1985.<ref>{{cite ODNB|first=Ralph |last=Evans|title=Aston, Trevor Henry (1925–1985)|date=January 2007 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/53265 |isbn=978-0-19-861411-1 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/53265|access-date=6 September 2010}} </ref>
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! scope= "row" |{{sortname|Jeffrey|Hackney}}
|[[File:Jeffrey Hackney, July 2010.jpg|frameless|110px]]
|align="center"|1987–1995
|{{hs|Oxford, Wadham}}[[Wadham College, Oxford|Wadham College]]
|[[Wadham College, Oxford|Wadham College]]
|Hackney, a legal academic specialising in [[Real property#England and Wales|property law]], [[trust law|law of trusts]] and [[legal history]], was a [[Oxbridge Fellow|Fellow]] of Wadham from 1976 until his retirement in 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/fellows-staff/staff/visiting-honorary-foundation-and-emeritus-fellows.html|publisher=Wadham College, Oxford|title=Visiting, Honorary, Foundation and Emeritus Fellows|access-date=24 August 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100812055922/http://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/fellows-staff/staff/visiting-honorary-foundation-and-emeritus-fellows.html|archive-date=12 August 2010|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/friends-alumni/events/wadham-college-law-society-dinner-for-jeffrey-hackney.html |title=Wadham College Law Society Dinner for Jeffrey Hackney |access-date=24 August 2010 |publisher=Wadham College, Oxford |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609065519/http://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/friends-alumni/events/wadham-college-law-society-dinner-for-jeffrey-hackney.html |archive-date= 9 June 2011 }}</ref> Before that, he had studied at Wadham, winning the [[Vinerian Scholarship]] for his performance in the [[Bachelor of Civil Law]] examinations; he went on to be a Fellow of [[St Edmund Hall, Oxford|St Edmund Hall]] before returning to Wadham.<ref>{{cite book|title=Supplement to the historical register of 1900, including an alphabetical record of University honours and distinctions for the years 1951–1965|year=1970|publisher=Oxford University Press|chapter=Alphabetical Register of Honours and Distinctions|page= 141|isbn=978-0-19-951181-5|author=University of Oxford}}</ref><ref name=Hack/> He has also taught at various universities in North America as a visiting professor.<ref name=Hack>{{cite web|url=http://www.law.ox.ac.uk/profile/hackneyj |title=Jeffrey Hackney |publisher=University of Oxford |access-date=24 August 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611090950/http://www.law.ox.ac.uk/profile/hackneyj |archive-date=11 June 2011 }}</ref>
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! scope= "row" |{{sortname|David|Vaisey}}
|
|align="center"|1995–2000
|{{hs|Oxford, Exeter}}[[Exeter College, Oxford|Exeter College]]
|[[Exeter College, Oxford|Exeter College]]
|Vaisey worked at the [[Bodleian Library]] from 1963 onwards, becoming Keeper of Western Manuscripts in 1975, and serving as [[Bodley's Librarian]] from 1986 to 1996.  On his retirement, he was given the title "Bodley's Librarian Emeritus", and became Keeper of the Archives.<ref>{{cite web|title=Vaisey, David George|work=[[Who's Who|Who's Who 2010]]|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=November 2009|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U40919|access-date=4 January 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/about/librarian/librarians/vaisey|date=14 January 2008|title=David George Vaisey|publisher=[[Oxford University Library Services]]|access-date=4 January 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090205054108/http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/about/librarian/librarians/vaisey|archive-date=5 February 2009|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
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! scope= "row" |{{sortname|Simon |Bailey |Simon Bailey (archivist)}}
|
|align="center"|2000-2020
|{{hs|Warwick}}[[University of Warwick]]
|[[Linacre College, Oxford|Linacre College]]
|Bailey was the first full-time Keeper of the Archives, having previously worked as the university's Archivist when Vaisey was the part-time Keeper. He is also a [[Oxbridge Fellow|Fellow]] of Linacre College.<ref name=Full>{{cite web|url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/2000-1/weekly/210900/notc.htm#10Ref|title=Committee for the Archives|publisher=University of Oxford|work=Oxford University Gazette|date=21 September 2000|access-date=24 August 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609225650/http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/2000-1/weekly/210900/notc.htm#10Ref|archive-date=9 June 2011|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.linacre.ox.ac.uk/About/Fellows|title=Fellows|publisher=Linacre College, Oxford|access-date=25 August 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100531181144/http://www.linacre.ox.ac.uk/About/Fellows|archive-date=31 May 2010|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=University of Oxford Calendar 2009–2010|isbn=978-0-19-956692-1|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2009|page=2|chapter=University Officers}}</ref> 

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! scope= "row" |{{sortname|Faye |McLeod |Faye McLeod (archivist)}}
|
|align="center"|2020 onwards
|{{hs|Brasenose}}[[Brasenose College]]
|
|McLeod is the first female Keeper of the Archives. Previously, she was Archivist with the Aston Martin Heritage Trust, Jaguar Heritage and finally Archivist and Records Manager for Keble College before taking the post of Keeper of the Archives.
|}

==Notes==
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==References==
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==External links==
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