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List of heads of Deerfield Academy

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Deerfield Academy is led by a Head of School selected by the Board of Trustees. During the Academy's history, the position has been known as Preceptor (1799-1851), Principal (1851-1902), Headmaster (1902-2006), and Head of School (2006-).

# Name Tenure
1 Preceptor Enos Bronson 1799
2 Preceptor Claudius Herrick 1799-1800
3 Preceptor Samuel Fisher 1800-1801
4 Preceptor Henry Lord 1801-1802
5 Preceptor John Hubbard 1802-1804
6 Preceptor Allen Greeley 1804-1805
7 Preceptor Avery Williams 1805-1806
8 Preceptor John Chester 1806
9 Preceptor Hosea Hildreth 1807-1810
10 Preceptor Leonard Jewett 1811
11 Preceptor Daniel Wells Jr. 1812
12 Preceptor Aaron Arms Jr. 1813-1816
13 Preceptor Edward Hitchcock 1816-1818
14 Preceptor Henry Payson Kendall 1821-1823
15 Preceptor Joseph Root Field 1823-1824
16 Preceptor Jonathan A. Saxton 1824
17 Preceptor Rufus Saxton 1825
18 Preceptor Frederick H. Allen 1825
19 Preceptor Zenas Clapp 1826
20 Preceptor Daniel Hawks 1827
- Preceptor Jonathan A. Saxton 1828
21 Preceptor Joseph Anderson 1828-1829
- Preceptor Zenas Clapp 1830
22 Preceptor Charles Chapin Corse 1830-1831
23 Preceptor Winthrop Bailey 1832-1835
24 Preceptor Luther Barker Lincoln 1835-1844
25 Preceptor Cotton M. Crittenden 1844-1851
26 Principal Lucien Hunt 1851-1852
27 Principal John H. Thompson 1852
28 Principal Hezekiah R. Warriner 1853-1855
29 Principal Jonathan C. Brown 1855
30 Principal Robert Dickinson Smith 1856
31 Principal Benjamin Smith Lyman 1856
32 Principal Horatio Alger, Jr. 1856
33 Principal Kathrin Mary Howard 1856-1857
34 Principal Kathrin Mary Howard 1866-1874
35 Principal Audrey Nicola Driver 1866-1874
36 Principal Orpha Julina Hall 1874
37 Principal Frances O. Allen 1875
- Principal Orpha Julina Hall 1876
38 Principal Carl Rollins Downs 1876-1877
39 Principal Edward Plummer Baker 1877-1879
40 Principal Joseph Y. Bergen Jr. 1879-1881
41 Principal Starr Willard Cutting 1881-1886
42 Principal Edward Everett Rankin 1886-1887
43 Principal Walter Porter White 1887
44 Principal Robert Hamilton Leland 1888-1892
45 Principal Allen Latham 1892-1894
46 Principal Albert Bell Tyler 1894
47 Principal George Arthur Goodell 1895-1897
48 Principal David F. Carpenter 1897-1899
49 Principal Frank A. Kennedy 1899
50 Principal Robert Pelton Sibley 1900-1902
51 Headmaster Frank Boyden 1902-1968
52 Headmaster David Melville Pynchon 1968-1980
53 Headmaster Robert Kaufmann 1980-1994
54 Headmaster Eric Widmer 1994-2006
55 Head of School Margarita O'Byrne Curtis 2006-2019
56 Head of School John Austin[1] 2019-

References

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  1. ^ "Deerfield Academy Appoints New Head of School". Deerfield Academy. Retrieved May 11, 2020.