11th century

Archbishop: 1052-70
Died: 1072
Burial place: Winchester Cathedral, Hants.
Biography: Cantuar pp. 40, 44; DNB; Hook’s Lives v. 1, pp. 506-32; ODCC
 

Lanfranc

Archbishop: 1070-89
Born: c.1005
Died: 1089
Burial place: Canterbury Cathedral, Kent
Arms: Per saltire azure and gules, a cross bottony on a globe or
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 44-5, 57-8, 106-8; DNB; Hook’s Lives v. 2, pp. 73-168; ODCC
 

Anselm

Archbishop: 1093-1109
Born: 1033
Died: 1109
Burial place: Canterbury Cathedral, Kent
Arms: Argent gutty de sang, a cross sable
Biography: Cantuar, p. 45, 58-60, 108-10; DNB; Hook’s Lives v. 2, pp. 169-276; ODCC
 

Ralph d’Escures

Archbishop: 1114-22
Died: 1122
Burial place: Canterbury Cathedral, Kent
Arms: Sable, a patriarchal cross issuant from the base argent
Biography: Cantuar, p. 45; DNB; Hook’s Lives v. 2, pp. 277-301
 

William de Corbeil

Archbishop: 1123-36
Died: 1136
Burial place: Canterbury Cathedral, Kent
Arms: Azure, a bend wavy and in sinister chief a cross couped argent
Biography: Cantuar, p. 46; DNB; Hook’s Lives v. 2, pp. 302-20
 

Theobold of Bec

Archbishop: 1139-61
Died: 1161
Burial place: Canterbury Cathedral, Kent
Will: Printed in A. Saltman, Theobold, Archbishop of Canterbury (London, 1956), pp. 254-7
Arms: Or, two bars azure and a chief indented gules
Biography: Cantuar, p. 60; DNB; Hook’s Lives v. 2, pp. 321-53; ODCC
 

Thomas Becket

Archbishop: 1162-70
Born: c.1118
Died: 1170
Burial place: Canterbury Cathedral, Kent
Images: Eighteenth-century prints at Lambeth Palace Library
Arms: Argent, three choughs sable beaked and legged gules
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 46-7, 60-64, 110-11; DNB; Hook’s Lives v. 2, pp. 354-507; ODCC
 

Richard of Dover

Archbishop: 1174-84
Died: 1184
Burial place: Canterbury Cathedral, Kent 
Arms: Azure, three mullets between two bends argent
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 47, 64; DNB; Hook’s Lives v. 2, pp. 508-38
 

Baldwin

Archbishop: 1184-90
Died: 1190
Burial place: Tyre, Lebanon
Arms: Gules, two bends and a bordure argent
Biography: Cantuar, p. 48; DNB; Hook’s Lives v. 2, pp. 539-73; ODCC
 

Hubert Walter

Archbishop: 1193-1205
Died: 1205
Burial place: Canterbury Cathedral, Kent
Arms: Quarterly azure and argent, a cross or between in the first and fourth quarters five mullets argent and in the second and third an eagle displayed sable
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 48-9, 64-7, 117-8; DNB; Hook’s Lives v. 2, pp. 584-656; ODCC

Stephen Langton

Archbishop: 1207-28
Born: c.1150-5
Died: 1228
Burial place: Canterbury Cathedral, Kent
Arms: Per pale azure and gules, a bend or
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 50, 67-8, 118-9; DNB; Hook’s Lives v. 2, pp. 657-761; ODCC
 

Richard Grant alias Wethershed

Archbishop: 1229-31
Died: 1231
Burial place: Umbria, Italy
Arms: Ermine, on a bend azure three pierced mullets or
Biography: Cantuar, p. 52; DNB; Hook’s Lives v. 3, pp. 103-27
 

Edmund of Abingdon

Archbishop: 1234-40
Born: c.1170-5
Died: 1240
Burial place: Cistercian Abbey at Pontigny, France
Arms: Gules, a cross patonce or between four sea-pies sable winged argent
Biography: DNB; Hook’s Lives v. 3, pp. 128-227; ODCC
 

Boniface of Savoy

Archbishop: 1245-70
Died: 1270
Burial place: Royal abbey of Hautecombe, Savoy, France
Arms: Gules, a cross argent
Biography: DNB; Hook’s Lives v. 3, pp. 228-303; ODCC
 

Robert Kilwardby

Archbishop: 1273-78
Died: 1279
Burial place: Dominican convent at Viterbo, Italy
Arms: Azure, on a bend gules three escallops or
Biography: DNB; Hook’s Lives v. 3, pp. 304-26; ODCC
 

John Pecham

Archbishop: 1279-92
Born: c.1225
Died: 1292
Burial place: Canterbury Cathedral, Kent
Images: Wilson pp. 459-64
Arms: Ermine, a chief quarterly or and gules
Biography: Cantuar, p. 52; DNB; Hook’s Lives v. 3, pp. 327-67; ODCC
 

Robert Winchelsey

Archbishop: 1294-1313
Born: c.1240s
Died: 1313
Burial place: Canterbury Cathedral, Kent
Will: Printed in Registrum Roberti Winchelsey Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi, ed. R. Graham, Canterbury and York Society 51-2, (Oxford, 1952-56), v. 2, pp. 1340-5; contemporary copy in Canterbury Cathedral Archives
Arms: Argent, a fess ermine voided gules and in chief three cinquefoils vert
Biography: Cantuar, p. 69; DNB; Hook’s Lives v. 3, pp. 368-454; ODCC
 

14th century

Walter Reynolds

Archbishop: 1313-27
Died: 1327
Burial place: Canterbury Cathedral, Kent
Will: Printed in SVW pp. 67-72; original in Canterbury Cathedral Archives 
Images: Wilson p. 465
Arms: Azure, on a cross between the symbols of the four Evangelists or five lions rampant gules
Biography: Cantuar, p. 53; DNB; Hook’s Lives v. 3, pp. 455-91
 

Simon Meopham (or Mepeham)

Archbishop: 1328-33
Died: 1333
Burial place: Canterbury Cathedral, Kent
Arms: Azure, three bends or
Biography: DNB; Hook’s Lives v. 3, pp. 492-518
 

John Stratford

Archbishop: 1333-48
Died: 1348
Burial place: Canterbury Cathedral, Kent
Will: Printed in SVW pp. 72-6; original in Canterbury Cathedral Archives 
Images: Wilson pp. 467-70
Arms: Or, a fess between three roundels gules
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 70-1; DNB; Hook’s Lives v. 4, pp. 1-79; ODCC
 

Thomas Bradwardine

Archbishop: 1349
Born: c. 1295
Died: 1349
Burial place: Canterbury Cathedral, Kent
Arms: Barry ermine and ermines
Biography: Cantuar, p. 53; DNB; Hook’s Lives v. 4, pp. 80-110; ODCC
 

Simon Islip

Archbishop: 1349-66
Died: 1366
Burial place: Canterbury Cathedral, Kent
Arms: Gules, a cross moline or
Biography: DNB; Hook’s Lives v. 4, pp. 111-62
 

Simon Langham

Archbishop: 1366-68
Died: 1376
Burial place: Carthusian Church at Avignon, France, moved to Westminster Abbey, London, 1379
Will: Printed in R. Widmore, An  History of the Church of St Peter, Westminster (London, 1751), pp. 184-91
Arms: Or, a chevron embattled between three trefoils gules
Biography: DNB; Hook’s Lives v. 4, pp. 163-220
 

William Whittlesey

Archbishop: 1368-74
Died: 1374
Burial place: Canterbury Cathedral, Kent
Will: Printed in SVW p. 80; original in Canterbury Cathedral Archives 
Arms: Or, a saltire azure
Biography: DNB; Hook’s Lives v. 4, pp. 221-43
 

Simon Sudbury

Archbishop: 1375-81
Died: 1381
Burial place: Canterbury Cathedral, Kent
Will: Printed in SVW p. 81; original in Canterbury Cathedral Archives 
Images: Wilson pp. 471-2
Arms: Argent, on a cross azure a letter M corned or
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 71-2; DNB; Hook’s Lives v. 4, pp. 244-314; ODCC
 

William Courtenay

Archbishop: 1381-96
Born: c.1342
Died: 1396
Burial place: Canterbury Cathedral, Kent
Will: Printed in Archaeologia Cantiana 23 (1898) pp. 58-67; English translation in J. Dahmus, William Courtenay (University Park, Pennsylvania, and London, 1966) pp. 265-76; original in Canterbury Cathedral Archives 
Images: Wilson pp. 472-5
Arms: Or, three roundels gules and a label azure charged on each point with a mitre or
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 53-4, 72-4; DNB; Hook’s Lives v. 4, pp. 315-98; ODCC
 

Thomas Arundel

Archbishop: 1397, 1399-1414
Born: 1353
Died: 1414
Burial place: Canterbury Cathedral, Kent
Will: Printed in SVW pp. 81-5; original in Canterbury Cathedral Archives 
Images: Reproduction of portrait at Lambeth Palace available from Lambeth Palace Library
Arms: Quarterly within a bordure engrailed argent: 1 and 4, gules, a lion rampant or; 2 and 3, Chequy or and azure
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 74-5; DNB; Hook’s Lives v. 4, pp. 399-528; ODCC

Roger Walden

Archbishop: 1397-99
Died: 1406
Burial place: St Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield, London
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 74-5; DNB; Hook’s Lives v. 4, pp. 529-35; ODCC
 

15th century

Thomas Arundel

See above
 

Henry Chichele

Archbishop: 1414-43
Born: c.1362
Died: 1443
Burial place: Canterbury Cathedral, Kent
Images: Reproduction of portrait at Lambeth Palace available from Lambeth Palace Library
Arms: Argent, a chevron between three cinquefoils gules
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 75, 120-2; DNB; Hook’s Lives v. 5, pp. 1-129; ODCC
 

John Stafford

Archbishop: 1443-52
Died: 1452
Burial place: Canterbury Cathedral, Kent
Arms: Or, a chevron gules within a bordure engrailed sable and on the chevron a mitre or for difference
Biography: DNB; Hook’s Lives v. 5, pp. 130-87
 

John Kempe

Archbishop: 1452-54
Born: c.1380
Died: 1454
Burial place: Canterbury Cathedral, Kent
Arms: Gules, three garbs within a bordure engrailed or
Biography: DNB; Hook’s Lives v. 5, pp. 188-267; ODCC
 

Thomas Bourgchier (or Bourchier)

Archbishop: 1454-86
Born: c.1404
Died: 1486
Burial place: Canterbury Cathedral, Kent
Will: Printed in Archaeologia Cantiana 24 (1900), pp. 247-52; partial English translation in Hook’s Lives v. 5, pp. 385-6; original in Canterbury Cathedral Archives 
Arms: Argent, a cross engrailed gules between four water-bougets sable
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 75-6; DNB; Hook’s Lives v. 5, pp. 268-386; ODCC
 

John Morton

Archbishop: 1486-1500
Born: c.1420
Died: 1500
Burial place: Canterbury Cathedral, Kent 
Will: Printed in SVW pp. 85-93; original PCC 
Images: Wilson pp. 485-6
Arms: Quarterly gules and ermine, in the first and fourth quarters a goat’s head erased argent
Biography: Cantuar, p. 76; DNB; Hook’s Lives v. 5, pp. 387-499; R. I. Woodhouse, The Life of John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury (London, 1895)
 

16th century

Henry Deane

Archbishop: 1501-03
Died: 1503
Burial place: Canterbury Cathedral, Kent
Will: Printed in SVW pp. 93-100; original PCC 
Arms: Argent, on a chevron gules between three choughs proper three crosiers erect or
Biography: DNB; Hook’s Lives v. 5, pp. 500-24
 

William Warham

Archbishop: 1503-32
Born: c.1540
Died: 1532
Burial place: Canterbury Cathedral, Kent
Will: Printed in Wills from Doctors’ Commons, ed. J. G. Nichols and J. Bruce, Camden Society 83 (London, 1863), pp. 21-7; original PCC 
Images: Reproduction of portrait at Lambeth Palace available from Lambeth Palace Library
Arms: Gules, a fess or between in a chief a goat’s head erased and in base three escallops argent
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 124-32; DNB; Hook’s Lives n.s. v. 1, pp. 155-421; ODCC
 

Thomas Cranmer

Archbishop: 1533-1553
Born: 1489
Died: 1556
Images: Reproduction of portraits at Lambeth Palace available from Lambeth Palace Library
Arms: Argent, on a chevron azure between three pelicans sable three cinquefoils or (sometimes shown as three cranes)
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 133-42; DNB; Hook’s Lives n.s. v. 1, pp. 422-509, n.s. v. 2, pp. 1-419; ODCC
 

Reginald Pole

Archbishop: 1556-58
Born: 1500
Died: 1558
Burial place: Canterbury Cathedral, Kent 
Will: Printed in Wills from Doctors’ Commons, ed. J. G. Nichols and J. Bruce, Camden Society 83 (London, 1863), pp. 48-53; original PCC 
Images: Reproduction of portraits at Lambeth Palace available from Lambeth Palace Library
Arms: Per pale sable and or, a saltire engrailed countercharged
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 143-6; DNB; Hook’s Lives n.s. v. 3, pp. 1-446; ODCC
 

Matthew Parker

Archbishop: 1559-75
Born: 1504
Died: 1575
Burial place: Lambeth Palace Chapel, Lambeth, London
Will: Copy printed in J. Strype, The Life and Acts of Matthew Parker, 3 vols. (London, 1711), v. 3, pp. 333-40; original PCC 
Images: Reproduction of portraits at Lambeth Palace available from Lambeth Palace Library
Arms: Gules, on a chevron between three keys argent three estoiles gules
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 147-56; DNB; Hook’s Lives n.s. v. 4, pp. 1-592; ODCC
 

Edmund Grindal

Archbishop: 1576-83
Born: c.1519
Died: 1583
Burial place: St John the Baptist, Croydon, Surrey
Will: Printed in J. Strype, History of the Life and Acts of the Most Reverend Father in God, Edmund Grindal, (London, 1710), Appendix pp. 103-4; original PCC 
Images: Reproduction of portrait at Lambeth Palace available from Lambeth Palace Library
Arms: Quarterly argent and azure, a cross quarterly ermines and or between four doves collared counterchanged
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 157-62; DNB; Hook’s Lives n.s. v. 5, pp. 1-120; ODCC
 

John Whitgift

Archbishop: 1583-1604
Born: c.1532
Died: 1604
Burial place: St John the Baptist, Croydon, Surrey
Will: PCC 
Images: Reproduction of portraits at Lambeth Palace available from Lambeth Palace Library
Arms: Argent, on a cross coupled flory at the ends azure four bezants (gold roundels)
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 163-70; DNB; Hook’s Lives n.s. v. 5, pp. 121-89; ODCC
 

17th century

Richard Bancroft

Archbishop: 1604-10
Born: 1544
Died: 1610
Burial place: St Mary, Lambeth, London
Will: PCC; probate copy at Lambeth Palace Library (CM XII/29)
Images: Reproduction of portraits at Lambeth Palace available from Lambeth Palace Library
Arms: Or, a bend between six crosses azure three garbs or
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 176-80; DNB; Hook’s Lives n.s. v. 5, pp. 190-243; ODCC
 

George Abbot

Archbishop: 1611-33
Born: 1562
Died: 1633
Burial place: Holy Trinity, Guildford, Surrey
Will: Printed in The Life of Dr George Abbot … from the Biographica Britannica, (Guildford, 1777), pp. 58-72
Images: Reproduction of portrait at Lambeth Palace available from Lambeth Palace Library
Arms: Gules, a chevron between three pears or
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 181-9; DNB; Hook’s Lives n.s. v. 5, pp. 224-307; ODCC
 

William Laud

Archbishop: 1633-45
Born: 1573
Died: 1645
Burial place: All Hallows, Barking, London, moved to St John’s College, Oxford, 1663
Will: Printed in Original Letters … Relating to the Benefactions of William Laud, ed. J. Bruce (London, 1841), pp. 61-9
Images: Reproduction of portraits at Lambeth Palace available from Lambeth Palace Library
Arms: Sable, on a chevron between three estoiles or three crosses formy fitchy gules
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 190-9; DNB; Hook’s Lives n.s. v. 6, pp. 1-393; ODCC
 

William Juxon

Archbishop: 1660-3
Born: 1582
Died: 1663
Burial place: St John’s College, Oxford
Will: PCC 
Images: Reproduction of portraits at Lambeth Palace available from Lambeth Palace Library
Arms: Or, a cross gules between four Moor’s heads affronty couped at the shoulders wreathed gules
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 204-6; DNB; Hook’s Lives n.s. v. 6, pp. 394-436; ODCC
 

Gilbert Sheldon

Archbishop: 1663-77
Born: 1598
Died: 1677
Burial place: St John the Baptist, Croydon, Surrey
Will: Extract (preamble) printed in M. Burrows, Worthies of All Souls (London, 1874), p. 250; complete copy in Lambeth Palace Library MS. 577, ff. 66v.-69r.; original PCC 
Images: Reproduction of portrait at Lambeth Palace available from Lambeth Palace Library
Arms: Argent, on a chevron gules three sheldrakes argent and on a canton gules a rose or
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 203-12; DNB; ODCC
 

William Sancroft

Archbishop: 1678-1690
Born: 1617
Died: 1693
Burial place: St Peter and St Paul, Fressingfield, Suffolk
Images: Reproduction of portraits at Lambeth Palace available from Lambeth Palace Library
Arms: Argent, on a chevron between three crosses formy gules three doves argent
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 213-22; DNB; ODCC
 

John Tillotson

Archbishop: 1691-94
Born: 1630
Died: 1694
Burial place: St Lawrence Jewry, London
Images: Reproduction of portraits at Lambeth Palace available from Lambeth Palace Library
Arms: Azure, a bend cotised between two garbs or
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 223-8; DNB; ODCC
 

Thomas Tenison

Archbishop: 1695-1715
Born: 1636
Died: 1715
Burial place: St Mary, Lambeth, London
Will: Printed in Memoirs of the Life and Times of the Most Reverend Father in God, Dr Thomas Tennison (London, 1716?), pp. 113-30; original PCC
Images: Reproduction of portrait at Lambeth Palace available from Lambeth Palace Library
Arms: Gules, three leopard’s faces or jessant de lys azure and over all a bend engrailed argent voided azure
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 229-40; DNB; ODCC
 

18th century

William Wake

Archbishop: 1716-37
Born: 1657
Died: 1737
Burial place: St John the Baptist, Croydon, Surrey
Will: PCC
Images: Reproduction of portrait at Lambeth Palace available from Lambeth Palace Library
Arms: Or, two bars and in chief three roundels gules and on the fess point a trefoil vert for difference
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 247, 249, 251; DNB; ODCC
 

John Potter

Archbishop: 1737-47
Born: c.1674
Died: 1747
Burial place: St John the Baptist, Croydon, Surrey
Will: PCC
Images: Reproduction of portraits at Lambeth Palace available from Lambeth Palace Library
Arms: Sable, a fess ermine between three cinquefoils argent
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 247, 249-50, 251-2; DNB; ODCC
 

Thomas Herring

Archbishop: 1747-57
Born: 1693
Died: 1757
Burial place: St John the Baptist, Croydon, Surrey
Will: PCC; probate copy at Lambeth Palace Library (CM 38/5)
Images: Reproduction of portraits at Lambeth Palace available from Lambeth Palace Library
Arms: Gules crusilly and three herrings haurient argent
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 253-4; DNB; ODCC
 

Matthew Hutton

Archbishop: 1757-58
Born: 1693
Died: 1758
Burial place: St John the Baptist, Croydon, Surrey
Will: PCC
Images: Reproduction of portrait at Lambeth Palace available from Lambeth Palace Library
Arms: Gules, on a fess or between three cushions lozengeways ermine tasselled or three fleurs-de-lys gules
Biography: Cantuar, p. 254; DNB
 

Thomas Secker

Archbishop: 1758-68
Born: 1693
Died: 1768
Burial place: Between Lambeth Palace and St Mary, Lambeth, London
Will: PCC 
Images: Reproduction of portraits at Lambeth Palace available from Lambeth Palace Library
Arms: Gules, a bend engrailed between two bull’s heads caboshed or
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 247, 250, 255; DNB; ODCC
 

Frederick Cornwallis

Archbishop: 1768-83
Born: 1713
Died: 1783
Burial place: St Mary, Lambeth, London
Will: PCC 
Images: Reproduction of portrait at Lambeth Palace available from Lambeth Palace Library
Arms: Sable gutty d’eau, on a fess argent three choughs proper
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 247-8, 255-6; DNB
 

John Moore

Archbishop: 1783-1805
Born: 1730
Died: 1805
Burial place: St Mary, Lambeth, London
Images: Reproduction of portraits at Lambeth Palace available from Lambeth Palace Library
Arms: Argent, on a chevron sable between three Moor’s heads in profile habited gules collared vert two swords hilted or
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 248, 256; DNB
 

19th century

Charles Manners Sutton

Archbishop: 1805-28
Born: 1755
Died: 1828
Burial place: St Mary the Blessed Virgin, Addington, Surrey
Images: Reproduction of portrait at Lambeth Palace available from Lambeth Palace Library
Arms: Quarterly: 1 and 4, Argent, a canton sable; 2 and 3, Or, two bars azure and a chief quarterly azure two fleurs-de-lys or and gules a lion passant gardant or
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 248, 257-8; DNB; ODCC
 

William Howley

Archbishop: 1828-48
Born: 1766
Died: 1848
Burial place: St Mary the Blessed Virgin, Addington, Surrey
Images: Reproduction of portraits at Lambeth Palace available from Lambeth Palace Library
Arms: Azure, an eagle displayed erminois charged on the breast with a cross patonce gules
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 290-9; DNB; ODCC; J. R. Garrard, William Howley (1766-1848). Bishop of London, 1813-28; Archbishop of Canterbury, 1828-48 (Unpublished DPhil thesis, Univ. of Oxford, 1992, available at Lambeth Palace Library)
 

John Bird Sumner

Archbishop: 1848-62
Born: 1780
Died: 1862
Burial place: St Mary the Blessed Virgin, Addington, Surrey
Images: Reproduction of portraits at Lambeth Palace available from Lambeth Palace Library
Arms: Ermine, two chevrons gules
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 300-11; DNB; ODCC
 

Charles Thomas Longley

Archbishop: 1862-8
Born: 1794
Died: 1868
Burial place: St Mary the Blessed Virgin, Addington, Surrey
Images: Reproduction of portrait at Lambeth Palace available from Lambeth Palace Library
Arms: Quarterly and a mullet for difference: 1 and 4, Quarterly per fess indented or and azure; 2 and 3, Argent, on a chevron sable three bezants
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 312-33; DNB; ODCC
 

Archibald Campbell Tait

Archbishop: 1868-82
Born: 1811
Died: 1882
Burial place: St Mary the Blessed Virgin, Addington, Surrey
Images: Reproduction of portrait at Lambeth Palace available from Lambeth Palace Library
Arms: Quarterly: 1 and 4, Argent, a saltire engrailed and a chief invected gules; 2 and 3, Argent, two ravens suspended by the neck from an arrow sable
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 334-59; DNB; ODCC
 

Edward White Benson

Archbishop: 1883-96
Born: 1829
Died: 1896
Burial place: Canterbury Cathedral, Kent
Will: Summarized in G. Palmer and N. Lloyd, Father of the Bensons: The Life of Edward White Benson (Harpenden, 1998), pp. 218-9
Images: Reproduction of portrait at Lambeth Palace available from Lambeth Palace Library
Arms: Argent, three trefoils slipped sable between four bendlets gules
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 360-87; DNB; ODCC
 

Frederick Temple

Archbishop: 1896-1902
Born: 1821
Died: 1902
Burial place: Canterbury Cathedral, Kent
Images: Reproduction of portrait at Lambeth Palace available from Lambeth Palace Library
Arms: Quarterly: 1 and 4, Or, an eagle displayed sable; 2 and 3, Argent, two bars sable each charged with three martlets or
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 388-405; DNB; ODCC
 

Randall Thomas Davidson

Archbishop: 1903-28
Born: 1848
Died: 1930
Burial place: Canterbury Cathedral, Kent
Arms: Azure, on a chevron or between two estoiles in chief and a pheon in base argent a fleur-de-lys gules
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 408-44; DNB 1922-1930, ed. J. R. H. Weaver (London, 1937); ODCC
 

Cosmo Gordon Lang

Archbishop: 1928-42
Born: 1864
Died: 1945
Burial place: Canterbury Cathedral, Kent (ashes)
Images: Reproduction of portrait at Lambeth Palace available from Lambeth Palace Library
Arms: Quarterly per fess indented argent and sable, in the first quarter an open book proper leaved gules in the last quarter two dock leaves vert
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 445-65; DNB 1941-1950, ed. L. G. Wickham Legg and E. T. Williams (London, 1959); ODCC
 

William Temple

Archbishop: 1942-44
Born: 1881
Died: 1944
Burial place: Canterbury Cathedral, Kent (ashes)
Images: Reproduction of portraits at Lambeth Palace available from Lambeth Palace Library
Arms: Quarterly: 1 and 4, Or, an eagle displayed sable; 2 and 3, Argent, two bars sable each charged with three martlets or
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 446-86; DNB 1941-1950, ed. L. G. Wickham Legg and E. T. Williams (London, 1959); ODCC
 

Geoffrey Francis Fisher

Archbishop: 1945-61
Born: 1887
Died: 1972
Burial place: St Andrew, Trent, Dorset
Images: Reproduction of portrait at Lambeth Palace available from Lambeth Palace Library
Arms: Argent, a fess wavy between three fleurs-de-lys sable
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 487-513; DNB 1971-1980, ed. Lord Blake and C. S. Nicholls (Oxford, 1986); ODCC
 

Arthur Michael Ramsey

Archbishop: 1961-74
Born: 1904
Died: 1988
Burial place: Canterbury Cathedral, Kent (ashes)
Images: Reproduction of portrait at Lambeth Palace available from Lambeth Palace Library
Arms: Ramsey bore no personal coat of arms as Archbishop
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 524-31; DNB 1986-1990, ed. C. S. Nicholls (Oxford, 1996); ODCC
 

Frederick Donald Coggan

Archbishop: 1974-80
Born: 1909
Died: 2000
Burial place: Canterbury Cathedral, Kent (ashes)
Images: Reproduction of portrait at Lambeth Palace available from Lambeth Palace Library
Arms: Argent, on a cross quarterly azure and gules between four crosses formy fitchy sable a rose argent barbed and seeded proper and ensigned by a mitre argent garnished or. Coggan adopted these on his elevation to the peerage in 1980.
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 531-6; M. Pawley, Donald Coggan: Servant of Christ (London, 1987)
 

Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie

Archbishop: 1980-91
Born: 1921
Died: 2000
Burial place: St Alban’s Cathedral, Hertfordshire
Images: Reproduction of portrait at Lambeth Palace available from Lambeth Palace Library
Arms: Argent, on a fess sable between three roses gules barbed and seeded proper three crosses patonce argent
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 536-45; M. Duggan, Runcie: The Making of an Archbishop (London, 1983); D.L.Edwards and P.Smith eds., Robert Runcie, a Portrait by his Friends (London, 1990); A. Hastings, Robert Runcie (London, 1991); J. Mantle, Archbishop (London, 1991); H. Carpenter, Robert Runcie: The Reluctant Archbishop (London, 1996); S.Platten ed., Runcie on Reflection (Norwich, 2002).
 

George Leonard Carey

Archbishop: 1991-2002 
Born: 1935
Images: Reproduction of portrait at Lambeth Palace available from Lambeth Palace Library
Arms: Ermine on a bend sable between two boar’s heads couped close azure tusked or langued gules three plates on each a tresquela sable a chief azure theron a lion passant ermine armed and langued gules
Biography: Cantuar, pp. 546-60; G.L.Carey, Know the Truth: A Memoir (London, 2004)
 

Rowan Douglas Williams 

Archbishop: 2002-
Born: 1950 Arms: Per pale gules and azure a chevron ermine between three bezants each charged with a lion passant, that is dexter chief azure, that is sinister chief gules and that is babe per pale azure and gules