Rectors of Therfield


Information copied from a board inside St Mary's Church.  The board is quite modern, probably late 20th century.  By it's very nature, it is not a comprehensive list of all the clergymen employed at Therfield.

The original information is displayed in four columns, but is simplified here into a single column.
 
 
 

 
RECTORS OF THERFIELD
WITH DATE OF INSTITUTION WHERE KNOWN
R - Resigned, D - Died
       
  John Foliot    
  Richard de Gravese   R
  Thomas de Northfleet 7 Feb 1267 D
  Edmund Beresford 7 Jan 1317 R
  William de Corton Jun 1321 D
  Richard Hilary 4 Aug 1335 R
  Richard Gent 13 Aug 1342 D
  Almeric Shylond 10 May 1372  
  John de Retford   R
  Michael de Ravendale 12 Nov 1373  
  John Olyngton 26 Jan 1391 D
  William Lassell 4 Apr 1407 R
  William Walshof 1 Oct 1407  
  William Taberham   D
  John Drewe 27 Apr 1421 R
  Stephen Noble 13 Sep 1421  
  Lawrence Dunton   R
  William Brewster 28 May 1441 R
  Robert Wetheringset 31 Oct 1443  
  John Britton   D
  Thomas Manchett 8 Apr 1465 D
  John Lilford 19 Sep 1467 D
  William Constable 21 Feb 1476 D
  Edward Shouldham 2 Oct 1485 D
  William Barons 27 Jun 1503 R
  Gundisalvus Ferdinandus 5 Sep 1504 D
  John Younge 13 Jul 1513 D
  Henry Rawlyns
Bishop of St Davids 1523
28 Apr 1516  
  Richard Gydnor 28 May 1523 D
  William Burgham 2 May 1534  
  John Whiting 1554  
  Thomas Hewlett 7 Sep 1560  
  William Chapman   D
  John Overall
Dean of St Pauls 1602
Bishop of Lichfield 1614  Norwich 1618
One of the revisers of the Bible (O.T.)
10 Jan 1604  
  William Alabaster Preb. of St Pauls   D
  John Montford 8 Aug 1640  
  Marmaduke Tennant Ejected  
  John Barwick
Dean of Durham, Dean of St Pauls 1661, D1664
11 Sep 1662  
  Francis Turner D.D.
Bp of Rochester 1683, Ely 1684, Deprived 1690
D1700 Buried in Therfield Church
20 Dec 1664  
  John Standish 14 Feb 1683 D
  William Holder 26 May 1687 D
  William Sherlock D.D.
Dean of St Pauls 1691, Resigned Rectory 1701 D1707
28 Feb 1697  
  Thomas Sherlock
Dean of Winchester 1716, Bp of Bangor 1728
Bp of Salisbury 1734, Bp of London 1748 D1761
1 Dec 1701  
  Henry Etough 27 Nov 1734 D
  Philip Younge Bp of Bristol 1762 5 Oct 1757  
  Charles Weston
Built Rectory (Central Portion)
7 Apr 1762 D
  Charles Moss D.D.
Bp of Oxford 1807, Rector till 1812
Built Western Addition to Rectory
1 Apr 1802  
  Samuel Ryder Weston 24 Apr 1812 D
  Hon. Gerald Valerian Wellesley D.D.
Youngest Brother of Duke of Wellington
9 May 1822  
  Daniel Twining 10 May 1832 D
  Thomas Robinson D.D.
Master of the Temple
15 Jun 1853 D
  Thomas Dale D.D. 26 Mar 1861 D
  John Godwin Hale
Rebuilt the Church
31 Jul 1870 D
  Frederick Roberts Blatch 27 Sep 1907 R
  Humphrey Richard Humphreys 27 Feb 1915 R
  Harlovin Harwood Ffolliott Eliot 7 Aug 1952 R
  Alfred Thomas Henderson Tebboth 16 Dec 1969 R
* John Geoffrey Elliot Stone 20 Oct 1977  
* David Mumford 22 Jan 1983  
  Edward Leonard Richard Smith 21 Oct 1989  
  Richard Mervyn Morgan 15 Apr 1996  

Patrons, - to 1593 - Abbot and Convent of Ramsey.  From 1640 - Dean and Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral.

 
 
 
 
* Recorded as Priests In Charge, rather than Rectors.




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