All Saints Church
Clifton

Church Rectors


The following is a list of Rectors compiled from the Church records and the Bedfordshire Archives:

1202 Eugeranus de Sandy
1202 Thomas son of Simon - after
1229 Thomas de Pertenhale - subdeacon
1267 Richard de Caysho - subdeacon
1278 John de Auchoyl [?] - clerk; subdeacon; on death of the last Rector
1293 Roger de Graneby - chaplain; Vicar of Bromham
129? John Pickard
1297 Robert Spigurnel - clerk; on the institution of John Pickard to another parish in the Diocese of Norwich; Sir Roger Peyure of Pertenhall had presented another clerk but he was held not to be entitled; the Spigurnel family were Lords of the Manor of Clifton
1301 John de Cheringdon - acolite; on the death of Robert Spigurnel
1310 Nicholas de Eye - clerk; on the resignation of John de Cheringdon
1313 John Blundel - chaplain; on death of Nicholas
13?? John de Marcham
1340 John de Hale - priest; on the institution of John de Marcham to be Rector of Sudbury in Norwich Diocese; instituted again 19th January 1341 by Walter de Stauren', canon of Lincoln
1345 Geoffrey de Sidelsham - Rector of Selesby; by Nicholas de Benton, Rector of Wranby, his procurator, by exchange with John de Hale
13?? Thomas de Cumpton
1351 Philip Daubeny - priest; on the resignation of Thomas de Cumpton who became Archdeacon of Bedford
1352 Roger de Wythyngton - on the death of Philip Daubeney
1357 Thomas Yunge - Rector of Oystermouth [near Swansea], Diocese of "Meneu" by exchange with Roger de Wythyngton
1359 Robert de Braybrok - clerk; on the resignation of Thomas Yonge; dispensation "pro defectu etatis" in pursuance of a Papal Bull granted in consequence of the mortality caused by the Black Death; the Braybrokes were Lords of the Manor of Clifton
1362 Robert de Braybrok - clerk; on the resignation of Robert de Braybrok
1368 Reginald Braybrok - clerk; on the resignation of Robert Braibrok
1373 Walter Wodeward - priest; on the resignation of Reginald de Braybrok
1379 John Cochowe - Rector of Grytton, Ely Diocese, by exchange with Walter Wodeward
1394 John Burgate - clerk; on the death of the last Rector
1396 John Turveye - priest; in succession to John Burgate
1396 John Bodycote - priest; on the resignation of John Turveye, who exchanged to be Rector of Yelden
1399 John Godard - priest
14?? Walter Hollybred - died; he has a brass in the church
1447 John Southell - priest; on the death of Walter Halibred
1460 Edmund Lemyng - priest; on the death of John de Southill
1490 Henry Babyngton MA - on the death of Edmund Lemyng; the Babyngtons were Lords of the Manor of Clifton
1497 Ralph Cantrell - priest; on the resignation of Henry Babington
1531 George Fage - chaplain; on the death of Ralph Cantrell
1569 Evan David - clerk; on the death of the last Rector
1572 Thomas Castell - resigned 16th May 1575
1575 Benjamin Chambers - admitted 16th May 1575; vacant on the resignation of John Castell
1578 Thomas Nicolson - admitted on 2nd August 1578 on the death of Benjamin Chambers
1579 John Snell - admitted 12th February 1579; vacant by deprivation of Thomas Nicholson
1595 William Maude - minister; buried 12th August 1622; will dated 21st March 1621, proved 8th July 1623
1618 William Buckby STB - married Ursula, daughter of Edward Osborne of Northill, esquire; buried 21st February 1648, aged 75; will dated 6th January 1648, proved 23rd April 1649
1622 Isaac Bedford MA - buried 9th November 1661; will dated 16th September 1661, proved 8th April 1662
1662 Nicholas East AM - clerk; on the death of Isaac Bedford; also Vicar of Pinchbeck [Lincolnshire]
1668 William Slater STP - of ChristChurch, Oxford; on the death of Nicholas East; also Rector of Saint James', Clerkenwell; died 3rd March 1690 aged 68
1690 Thomas Cooke MA - on the death of William Slater
1708 Philip Oddy AM - on the resignation of Thomas Cooke
1733 Samuel Sparhawke MA
1738 Thomas Osborn LL.D - on the death of Samuel Sparhawke
1790 Daniel Stephen Olivier LL.B - on the death of Thomas Osborn
1827 Daniel Josias Olivier MA - on the death of Daniel Stephen Olivier
1858 Henry Hugh Miles MA - on the death of Daniel Josias Olivier
1891 Edmund Clement Alwyn Foster
1896 John Pycock
1921 Jervois Arthur Newnham DD, LLD, Late Bishop Saskiatchewan
1925 Reginald Merac La Porte-Payne MA, Hon CF
1939 Theodore Robert Woosnam Lunt
1947 Philip Humphrey Hall
1951 Patrick Thomas Ashton MA
1555 Patrick Morris Foort MA, OCF
1959 Ernest Hall AKC
1969 Gerald Richard Stanley Ritson MA
1976 David Arthur Ireland MA
1984 Peter John Pavey ACLD, Hon Canon St Albans
1994 John Kenneth Dixon
2005 Mark-Aaron B Tisdale BA, CCM
2011 Anne Margret Hindle Bsc
2016 Caren Teresa Topley BEd(Hons), Dip CCM