The Rectors of St Michael's Finmere

DATE

NAME

Patron: The Abbey of St Augustine, Bristol

1

c. 1200

Roger de Cherlecote

2

Instituted 1237

Ralph de Well

3

1241

Rannulf

4

1248

John de Stanton

5

1292

Ralph de Oxon

6

Instituted 14. June 1299

John de Langton

7

Instituted 14 August 1306

Richard de Abindon

8

Instituted 4 May 1339

Richard de Adderbury

9

Instituted 12 April 1392

Robert Holbrok

10

Instituted 17 December 1396

John Chippenham

11

?

Sir Hugh Tibbe

12

Instituted 15 October 1407

Sir William Lowtry

13

Instituted 21 December 1407

William Thomas

14

Instituted 10 November 1411

John Babyngton

15

Instituted 24 December 1416

John Marchuant

16

Instituted 14 March 1416

Master Geoffrey Davenport

17

Instituted 18 September 1421

Thomas Whytchurche

18

?

Sir John Lancaster

19

Instituted 13 November 1443

Walter Kynghen

20

?

Richard Kere

21

Instituted 4 March 1446

Thomas Feyley

22

?

Master Thomas Vese

23

Instituted 2 August 1454

Sir Richard Smyth

24

?

Richard Strillen

25

Instituted 3 May 1500

Richard Elyot

26

Instituted after 1530

Ralph Ponsonby

Patron: John Blundell and Heirs

27

Instituted 1 May 1560

John Sanky

28

1573

James Brickhill

29

Instituted 2 April 1576

Luke Smith

30

Instituted 4 April 1577

Ambrose Smith

Patron: Sir John Temple and Heirs

31

Inducted 24 July 1592

Robert Higgins

Patron: The Court of Wards

32

Inducted 15 April 1632

Dr Lewis Wemys

Patron: Sir John Temple and Heirs

33

Instituted 9 October 1632

Richard Horn

34

Instituted 22 January 1678

Richard Ells

35

Instituted 22 July 1704

William Chaplin

36

Instituted 5 August 1726

Conway Rand

37

Instituted 3 September 1733

Thomas Long

38

Instituted 8 May 1771.

William Cleaver

39

Instituted 4 December 1783.

William Cleaver

40

Instituted 22 November 1788

Wooley Leigh Bennett

41

Instituted 23 August 1790

Robert Holt

42

Instituted 4 August 1802

George Glover

43

Instituted 5 August 1804

William Henry Barnard

44

Instituted 12 November 1811

Thomas Winfield

45

Instituted 18 September 1812

Charles Shipley

46

Instituted 22 December 1814

William Jocelyn Palmer

Patron: John Walker

47

Instituted 1853

Frederick John Walker

Patron: William Ashwell

48

Instituted 1866.

Seymour Ashwell

Patrons: Various

49

Instituted 1902

Henry William Trower

50

Inducted 1919

George Dangerfield

51

Inducted 1935

Alfred Wheeler

52

Inducted 1940

Christopher Francis Cross

53

Inducted 1948

Percy Augustus Parrott

54

Inducted May 1956

Maurice Geoffrey Sheldon

55

1960

Frederick Hosier

56

December 1962

Leslie Ronald Swingler

57

1975

Anthony Hichens

58

1976

Donald Allan

59

March 1984

Ronald Bernard Jennison

60

January 1993

Warwick (Ricky) Yates

61

August 2009

Christobel Hargraves

See also Blomfield's History of Finmere