ROLL OF RECTORS FOR THE PARISHES OF STOKE GOLDINGTON AND GAYHURST

  • Robert de Nottingham was presented in 1233 by Peter de Goldington. 
  • Giffard de Tyringham resigned in 1319 and was succeeded by Thomas de Tyringham, who was presented by John de Nodariis or Nowers, 11 January 1319.   On his resignation…
  • John Ballard was presented in 1375 by the prior and convent of Ravenstone, which had, in 1344, obtained the advowson. However, the following year 1345, on the death of the rector…
  • John Wendore was presented by the prior and convent; but his appointment was resisted by the lay patron, Sir John Nowers, which was subsequently set aside by the Bishop, when Passlewe (Wavendon) was presented 20 December 1376, by Sir John Nowers, who had thus recovered his right of presentation.  His successor was…
  • John Aubyn, presented 21 October 1381, by Sir John Nowers. He exchanged for Walton, juxta Fenny Stratford, of which he had before been rector.
  • Robert Lazy was admitted 20 December 1386, on the presentation of the convent of Ravenstone. He resigned in 1388; and was succeeded by;
  • John Amery was presented 22 April 1388, by Sir John Aylesbury (Lord of Milton Keynes), Henry Bydall, rector of Haversham and John, son of Richard Doe of Olney, who were patrons by feoffment of Sir John Nowers. His successor was…
  • Thomas Handye; admitted on the same presentation; on whose resignation, in 1447, he was succeeded by…
  • Geoffry Cassell, or Castell, who was presented by John Mortimer of Grendon, on the title of the convent of Ravenstone, but resigned in 1461
  • William Radcliff succeeded 29 July 1462, on the presentation of Robert Nevill, Lord of Gayhurst. on his accession.
  • Roger Logerden succeeded 23 May 1472, on the same presentation, He died and…
  • Quintus Wistborne was presented in 1504, by the convent of Ravenstone.
  • Thomas Sparke occurs rector in 1505; but resigned the following year for…
  • Richard Haverden, LL.B., was presented 25 January 1506, by Michael Nevill, Lord of Stoke Goldington and Gayhurst. He died in 1518, being also rector of Sherington, and was succeeded by…
  • Richard Birdsall, presented 27 October 1518, by the same patron.
  • John Aras was styled minister in 1534. He is supposed to have been curate to Birdsall; for it was returned, in 1541, that Richard Birdsall resided in Northampton. He died in 1548
  • William Waren was collated by the Bishop, on a lapse, January 1549. His successor was…
  • Humphrey Doleman, instituted in 1557
  • William Yeomans succeeded 8 August 1560, on the death of the last incumbent, not named on the presentation of Francis Nevill. He obtained a license 22 February 1570, to marry Joan Pigot. He died in 1613; and was succeeded by…
  • Valentine Lane, D.D. presented 22 April 1613, by Richard Lane, of Great Linford, yeoman, by virtue of the advowson being granted to him for his turn. He died, and was buried 22 March 1624, at Dodford, in Northamptonshire, where he was also vicar.
  • Anthony Morgan, S.T.P., was presented 26 April 1625, by the crown’s title; but it seems to have been set aside for…
  • Richard Holmes who was presented the same year, 1625, by Sir Kenelm Digby.
  • William Beesley succeeded in 1628. He was turned out of all his benefices in 1643; among which, was the mastership of St. John’s College, Cambridge.
  • John Hillersden, B.D., instituted in 1644. He had been during a few years, rector of Castle Ashby; and held this living until his death, in 1654. He was twice married; and by his second wife Mary, who was only daughter of William Johnson, of Olney, left a son, Edward Hillersden. He was also archdeacon of Buckingham. On his cession…
  • Edmund Butts was instituted 27 November 1684. He died in 1701; and was buried here.
  • Thomas Remmington, M.A., instituted 5 May 1702, on the presentation of Sir John Conway, Bart., and Richard Mostyn. He died in 1736; being succeeded by…
  • John Dabbs, M.A., instituted in 1736-7 on the presentation of George Wrighte. He was also rector of Gayhurst and, dying, was succeeded by…
  • John Deane, 10 August 1750, on the presentation of the consolidated rectories of Gayhurst and Stoke Goldington, of George Wrighte. At his decease, he was succeeded by…
  • Pulton Forester, D.D. presented 16 November 1759, by the same patron. He was Archdeacon of Buckingham, and chaplain to the King. He was succeeded by…
  • Robert Dowbiggen, M.A. presented 16 April 1766. He was sub-dean of Lincoln. He died in 1794, and was buried here.
  • Thomas Scott, becoming ordained by the Bishop of Lincoln on 20 September 1772, and gaining the curacy of Stoke Goldington and Weston Underwood, at an annual income of fifty pounds ,with some trifling additions.
  • Joseph Jekyll Rye, M.A. presented to the rectory of Gayhurst, with Stoke Goldington annexed, 12 January 1795.
  • Benjamin Bailey instituted 27 December 1819, on the presentation of Anne Barbara Wrighte, of Witheby Cottage, Sidmouth, in Devon. He was also vicar of Dallington, in Northamptonshire, but resigned both livings in 1822.
  • Fiennes Samuel Trotman, 9 January 1823, on the same presentation. He was also the Headmaster of the new National School
  • Herbert Mortimer Luckock, the present Dean of Litchfield was presented in 1863. He immediately appointed the Rev. C. Jerdein of Trinity College, Dublin as his curate. He resigned, and was succeeded by him…
  • Charles Jerdein, M.A. was instituted in 1865, and became the first resident vicar for upwards of a century.
  • Maurice W Murray M.A. (1909)
  • Frederick W Walker M.A. (1914)
  • C Stafford Jones M.A. (1920)
  • Charles L Wanstall M.A. (1931)
  • Edmund N W Leachman M.A. (1931)
  • Jocelyn (Jock) L Woods (1944)
  • Vacant (1958)
  • Geoffrey W Lovejoy M.A. (1965)
  • A Kerrigan Pring AKC  (1972)
  • Stephen J A Weston  (1987)
  • Alex Murdoch (1995)
  • Janet Lawrence
  • Christa Pumphrey