1572 J. Field & T. Wilcox sig. D Cathedrall churches,..wher master Deane, master Vicedeane,..readers, vergerirs .&c. liue in great idlenesse.
1637 G. Gillespie iii. viii. 161 Deanes, Vice-Deans,..Subdeacons.
1697 No. 3341/1 The Vice-Dean with the Clergy, made a Congratulatory Speech.
1875 W. H. Jones 265 There is always a distinction to be observed between a ‘Vice-Dean’ or a ‘Locum Tenens’, and the ‘Sub-Dean’.