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The History Of Saint Mary's Lidgate

Vicars / Rectors Of Lidgate
Date Vicar / Rector*
1302 Walter Maunsel
1324 Walter Wancy
1328 Robert de Wancy
1350 Walter Amyas
1377 Robert Vauncey
1380 Thomas Attewell
1??? John Tuttebury
1441 Richard Langham (Chaplain)
1446 Rad Vaske
1458 Thomas Taylor
1461 Newport
1474 Richard Johnson
1496 George Newton
1505 Edmund Dikman
1527 Richard Toppying
1558 Thomas Simpson
1576 Oliver Sarson
1625 Gabriel Catchpole
1650 Mr. Ward
1660 Gabriel Catchpole
1670 Christopher Cutting
1701 Samuel Fairclough
1740 Gilbert Affleck
17?? James Moore
1766 James Fish Palmer
1767 John Isaacson (Senior)
1799 William Butcher
1803 John Isaacson (Junior)
1829 H. W. Salmon
1841 W.J. Travis
1844 James Jackson
1851 Richard Wood
1854 John Gordon
1858 R.H. Cave (from Barbados)
1871 Robert Kettle
1889 E. Audrey Gray
1927 Leonard L. Butcher
1954 A.J. Talbot-Easter, M.A.
1956 Laurence B.C. Newell, M.A.
1966 Edward P. Whalley, M.A.
1973 Derek Hill, A.K.C.
1975 Arnold Freeman, A.K.C
1980 Donal Bronwne, M.C., M.A.
1981 Geoffrey Whitefield, M.A.
1995 Eric Crouchman
1996 Interregnum
1999 Ian Finn*
2007 Interregnum
2008 Stephen Abbott
2012 Interregnum
2013 Brin Singleton
2017 Interregnum
2020 Eve Bell

*With the creation of the Bansfield Benefice during the incumbency of Revd Ian Finn the incumbent's title changed from Vicar to Rector.

Last Modified Sunday 16 February 2020