WHO’S WHO - RECTORS OF NEWBURY FROM 1213

The names of the following rectors are derived from the Episcopal Registers of the Diocese of Salisbury from the time of Bishop Simon de Gandavo, in 1298, to the year 1836, when the whole County of Berkshire was detached from Salisbury and annexed to the Diocese of Oxford. The series is completed from the records of the latter See.

1213-26

(prior to) Gervase

1327

Richard de Warmington (Warmington, Co. Oxon)

1394

Thomas Charles

1394

(prior to) Thomas Newman of Hadisco, Co. Norfolk

1394

John Maldon

1401

Hugh Clifford, Chaplain

1408

John Lynes

1418

Robert Langrish, MA, Fellow of New College and Prebendary of Sarum

1454

John Stretton, LLD, Prebendary of Sarum

1457

Thomas Water, BA

1460

John Ingylby, MA

1479

Christopher Twynbo, Prebendary of Lincoln and Archdeacon of Bucks

1488

John Esterfield, SCL, Fellow of New College

1513

John Wayte, MA

1539

Edward Heydon, BCL, also Rector of Enbourn

1551

Edmund Allen, BD, Fellow of Corpus Christi College; Bishop-elect of Rochester

1553

William Smyth

1554

Henry Howman

1559

William Forde, BCL, Fellow of New College. Deprived in 1560.

1560

Thomas Bromhead

1562

Thomas Early

1567

Hugh Shepley

1592

Thomas Coldwell, MA, also Rector of Shaw-cum-Donnington

1618

Nathaniel Giles, DD, Canon of Windsor

1620

William Twisse, DD, Fellow of New College, Prolocutor of the Westminster Assembly of Divines. He exchanged Newton-Longueville for Newbury with Dr Giles picture

1648

Benjamin Woodbridge, MA. Dispossessed under Act of Uniformity.

John Hillersden, BD, Fellow and Vice-President of Corpus Christi College. Dispossessed of his preferments by the Cromwellian visitors in 1648; mentioned in 1664 as "the late incumbent"

Stephen Fowler, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge; is stated by Gough, the Antiquary, to have been a Rector of Newbury.

1663

Joseph Sayer, BD, Prebendary of Salisbury

1675

John Hinton, MA, Prebendary of Sarum, also Rector of Shaw-cum-Donnington

1720

Joseph Acres, MA

1746

Thomas Penrose, MA picture

1769

Richard Davies, MA, also Rector of Highclere

1797

James Roe, MA, also Perpetual Curate of Dorchester, Oxon. picture

1838

Hibbert Binney, DCL picture

1857

James Leslie Randall, MA, Fellow of New College, Rural Dean of the Deanery of Newbury, Archdeacon of Buckingham, Canon of Christ Church. Suffragan Bishop of Reading, 1889, when he received the Degree of DD. The great church work of restoration during the time Canon Randall was Rector, and in which he took an active part, was remarkable picture

1878

Edward Imber Gardiner, MA, Rural Dean and Rector of Aston-Rowant picture

1901

Lionel Robert Majendie, MA picture

1930

Wilfred Lingwood Cooper picture

1941

Bertram Russell picture

1954

Gerald Charles Matthews picture

1970

John West Gann, MA (First Rector of the Newbury Team Ministry) picture

1979

William Richard Dacre Capstick, MA picture

1989

David Charles Murray Cook, MA, Area Dean of Newbury, Canon of Christ Church picture

2002

David Adrian Stone, MA, BM, BCh

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