(1715/6–1796) was an English cleric and academic administrator at the University of Oxford.

[1] Fothergill was elected Provost (head of house) of The Queen's College, Oxford in 1767,[2] a post he held until his death in 1796.

[3] During his time as Provost, he was also Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University from 1772 until 1776.

[4][5] Fothergill married Mary Billingsley, daughter of the Rev.

John Billingsley (died 1751), rector of Newington, Oxfordshire.