List of Rectors

List of Rectors and Priests-In-Charge
No. Dates from-to Name Notes
1 c.1150-1178 Walter de Bidun Chancellor to the King of Scotland and Bishop-elect of Dunkeld at his death in 1178
2 1231 Walter de Horton  
3 1288 Nicolas de Beauvis  
4 1292 Simon de Beauvis  
5 1334 Thomas de Escrik Deprived after failing to obtain Holy Orders
6 1334 Guy Wake  
7 1347 William de Homeby  
8 1350 William de Wakefield  
9 1351 Roger de Taleworth  
10 1352 Henry de Sauston  
11 1357 John de Kent  
12 1361 Roger Raynon de Wellesford  
13 1363 Richard de Daventry  
14 1369 John Pratt  
15 1386 John de Midleton  
16 1389 Robert Attewell de Upton  
17 1406 Simon Chamberleyn  
18 1410 Giles Beton  
19 - Robert  
20 1431 John Cleypole  
21 1442 Henry Bilock  
22 1444 John Lychebarrow  
23 1457 John Wattes  
24 1458 Thomas Vincent  
25 1463 Reginald Conwey alias ap-David (alias due to patrons, the Greys, having considerable interest in Wales?)
26 1474 Thomas Throwland alias Markham
27 1477 John de la Launde alias Smythe
28 1485 William Croxton  
29 1524 Roger Wylde  
30 1526 William Plumptre  
31 1531 Robert Curtes  
32 1582 Anthony Heywood  
33 1589 John Hocknell  
34 1616 Robert Catlyn  
35 1616 George Coldwell  
36 1623 William Benyon  
37 1625 Hannibal Potter  
38 1626 Jeremiah Stevens Also Patron of this Parish; he built the North wing of the old Rectory; quarrelled with his parishioners and many of them walked to London to petition for his dismissal; he was expelled in 1644 but reinstated in 1660.  He was the literary coadjutor of Sir Henry Spelman.
39 1646-1658 Daniel Rogers Intruded
40 1658-1660 Lemuel Franklin Intruded
41 1665 Daniel Goldsmith  
42 1667 Robert Stevens  
43 1677-1680 Robert Walley  
44 1680-1681 Samuel Collins  
45 1681-1686 Thomas Singleton Presented by his wife, Frances, the daughter of Jeremiah Stevens.
46 1686-1716 William Paynter  
47 1716 Samuel Addams  
48 1741 Robert Scott  
49 1761 Charles Webber  
50 1764 James Fortescue  
51 1777 William Terry  
52 1806 John Vye  
53 1833 John Prideaux Lightfoot  
54 1854 William Woolcombe  
55 1882 Charles Hammond  
56 1887 August Miller  
57 1896 George Kemp  
58 1905 Edward Leverton  
59 1912 Thomas Dodson  
60 1931 William Cruft  
       
       
       
       
       

 

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