| <table border="1"> | |
| <tr><td>Principal</td><td>Date</td><td>Notes</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>John Anwykyll</td><td>1480β1488</td><td>first master of the grammar school</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>John Stanbridge</td><td>-</td><td>-</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>Richard Berne</td><td>-</td><td>first Principal of Magdalen Hall</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>Thomas Coveney</td><td>1553β1558</td><td>-</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>Adrian Hawthorne</td><td>1558β1567</td><td>-</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>Robert Lyster</td><td>1567β1602</td><td>matriculated Thomas Hobbes</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>James Hussey</td><td>1602β1605</td><td>-</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>John Wilkinson</td><td>1605β?</td><td>removed by Royalists</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>Thomas Read</td><td>-</td><td>Royalist appointee</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>John Wilkinson</td><td>?β1648</td><td>restored</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>Henry Wilkinson</td><td>1648β1662</td><td>removed by the Act of Uniformity</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>James Hyde</td><td>1662β1681</td><td>-</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>William Levet</td><td>1681β1694</td><td>-</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>Richard Adams</td><td>1694β1716</td><td>-</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>Digby Cotes</td><td>1716β1745</td><td>-</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>William Denison, the Elder</td><td>1745β1755</td><td>-</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>William Denison, the Younger</td><td>1755β1786</td><td>-</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>Matthew Lamb</td><td>1786β1788</td><td>-</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>Henry Ford</td><td>1788β1813</td><td>-</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>John Macbride</td><td>1813β1822</td><td>moved Magdalen Hall to the site of Hertford College</td></tr> | |
| </table> | |