Gloucestershire | Todenham | List of Rectors, 1221-1957
St Thomas a Becket, Todenham, Gloucestershire
Rectors, 1221-1957
From a list displayed within the church:
1221-32 OSBERT, Priest of Todenham
1232-1269 ?
1269 WALTER
1298 PETER, called GODMAN
1306 ADAM OF CAREWELL
1349 PHILIP OF ALYNCESTRE
1383 JOHN TOURNAY
1387 JOHN WYNICHE
1387 THOMAS PYPE
1391 SIMON HERWARD
1401-9 THOMAS MERKES (Previously Bishop of Carlisle, 1397-1403)
1409 ROBERT ELY
? JOHN ELIKA
? THOMAS FURZEN
1501 THOMAS BARBER (Chaplain to Sir John Missenden)
1545 SIR GEORGE SPETILL
1549 GERARD CARLETON
1554 HENRY PENDITTON
1563 ROGER SMITHE
1568 RICHARD LONGWORTH
1570 EDWARD ARUNDEL
1579 NATHANIEL TRAHERON, B.A
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1594 WILLIAM FISHER
1598 ALIAS PRICE
1618 THOMAS ILES, M.A., D.D.
? WILLIAM BRIGGS
1633 ROBERT WILKINS
1655 ROBERT WICKENS (published first Bible Concordance)
1683 MOORE FORTUNE, M.A.
1686 JOHN TAYLOR, M.A.
1721 JOHN JONES, M.A.
1729 JOHN TAYLOR, M.A.
1767 GEORGE UPTON, M.A.
1780 WILLIAM ALDINGTON
1805 SAMUEL FIELD, licensed curate
1807 THOMAS JARVIS
1810 THOMAS BRETT, B.A.
1812 GILBERT MALCOLM, M.A. (Rural Dean of Campden, Hon. Canon of Gloucester Cathedral)
1855 FREDERICK ASTON, M.A.
1873 HENRY HORSLEY
1882 AUGUSTIN WILLIAMS
1903 FRANCIS WHITNEY DREWE
1912 HOWARD EVELYN BETTS, M.A.
1918 HENRY HERRICK, M.A.
1930 THOMAS LONGLEY
1936 THOMAS EDGAR JOHNSON, M.A.
1948 REGINALD ARTHUR BENTLEY M.A. (Rural Dean of Stowe)
1957 REGINALD GEORGE BENNETT
Until 1554 the Patron of the living was the Abbot of Westminster when the patronage passed to the Bishop of London, who held it until 1855. The Bishops of Bristol and Gloucester were then patrons until the bishop of Gloucester became sole patron.
Last modified 26 April 2001