John Richard Magrath (1839–1930) was a British academic and administrator at the University of Oxford.
[1] Third son of Nicholas Magrath, a Royal Navy surgeon, and his wife Sarah Mauger Monk,[2][3] Magrath was born at Saint Peter Port, Guernsey and educated at Elizabeth College.
He was ordained in 1863, serving as vicar of Sparsholt with Kingston Lisle, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire) from 1887 to 1889, and as chaplain to Bishop Thorold of Winchester from 1890 to 1895.
[4] At the Queen's College, he became Tutor (from 1864), Dean (1864–67), Chaplain (1867–78), Bursar (1874–78), Pro-provost (1877), and then Provost (1878–1930).
He was bought a house at Boars Hill, south-west of Oxford; travelling there on a cold February day in an open carriage, Magrath developed pneumonia and died three days later.