Richard Longworth (died 1579) was an English churchman and academic, Master of St John's College, Cambridge and Dean of Chester.
Having been elected Master of St John's in 1564, he was deprived of the position in 1569, by Richard Cox, the bishop of Ely, as College Visitor.
The college's sympathies were manifested in the refusal of the Master and others to wear the surplice in chapel, and Longworth was summoned to London to explain himself.
The Visitor's intervention was prompted by the feuding in the college, and Fulke had to pull back, missing his own chance at the mastership.
[6] He was a non-resident rector of Cockfield, Suffolk from 1567, and was succeeded by John Knewstub, of similar views.