Appendix: Rectors and incumbents

Survey of London: Volume 7, Chelsea, Part III: the Old Church. Originally published by London County Council, London, 1921.

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'Appendix: Rectors and incumbents', in Survey of London: Volume 7, Chelsea, Part III: the Old Church, (London, 1921) pp. 84-85. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol7/pt3/pp84-85 [accessed 19 March 2024]

APPENDIX

(fn. 1) LIST OF RECTORS, AND INCUMBENTS OF THE OLD CHURCH

Rectors:

Reginald de St Albans 1289–90 to 1299
Sir Robert de Starandone
Roger de Berners 1316
William de Bray 1316 to 1318–19
Nicholas Hosbounde 1318–19 to 1348
Martin de Moulish 1348
William Palmer 1368
Thomas de Preston 1368
John Basset 1368 to 1371
John Wright de Stansted 1371 to 1372
John de Foydon (v. Foxdon) 1372 to 1374
Richard Mokynton 1385
Richard Everdon 1385 to 1388
John Beaugraunt 1388 to 1392
John Bishop 1392 to 1394
John Balsham 1394 to 1394–5
Robert Orum 1394–5
John Cambridge 1406
Peter Hynewyk 1411
John Abbey 1411
Robert Broun 1413
Richard Cosyn 1413
John Scarburgh 1433
Geoffrey Medewe 1433 to 1435
Alexander Broun 1435 to 1442
Thomas Boleyn 1442
William Walesby 1450
William Lilly 1450 to 1451
Thomas Shalers 1451
William Fideon 1451 to 1454
John Pennant 1454 to 1455
William Hebbing 1455–6 to 1456
William Massanger 1456 to 1469–70
William Mille 1469 to 1481
John Mardelay 1481 to 1486
Thomas Machey, A.M. 1486 to 1492
George Percy alias Gard 1492
William Ingelard 1502
Robert Tunstall 1502 to 1503
Thomas Loworth 1503
Robert Dandie 1530
John Larke 1530 to 1543
Robert Richardson 1543 to 1554
James Proctor 1554
Richard Myers 1554 to 1558
Matthew Myers 1558
Robert Richardson Restored
John Churchman 1569 to 1574
Thomas Browne, S.T.B. 1574 to 1585
(fn. 2) Richard Ward 1585 to 1615
George Hambden, A.M. 1615 to 1632
Samuel Wilkinson 1632 to 1669
Adam Littleton, D.D. 1669–70 to 1694
John King, D.D. 1694 to 1732
Sloane Elsmere 1732 to 1766
Reginald Heber 1766 to 1770
Thomas Drake, LL.D. 1770 to 1775
W. Bromley Cadogan, M.A. 1775 to 1797
Charles Sturgess, M.A. 1797 to 1805
Hon. G. V. Wellesley 1805 to 1832
John William Lockwood, M.A. 1832 to 1836
Charles Kingsley, M.A. 1836 to 1860
A. Gerald W. Blunt, M.A. 1860 to 1901
Archdeacon H. E. J. Bevan, M.A. 1902 —

Incumbents:

John Rush, LL.B. 1832 to 1855
Robert Henry Davies, M.A. 1855 to 1908
Sherburne Povah Tregelles Prideaux, M.A. 1908 to 1912
Malcolm Stuart Farmer, M.A. 1912 to 1916
Weston Henry Stewart, M.A. 1916

Footnotes

  • 1. For further information see Hennessey's Repertorium Ecclesiasticum, and Randall Davies' Chelsea Old Church.
  • 2. He left a gift of £15 to the poor of the parish and to repairing the lead.