Date | Rectors | Patrons | Resigned or Died |
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1223 | Robert de Hedlaya | The Bishop of Lincoln | |
1238 | John de Richmund | Bro. Ro. Saumford, Master of the Knights Templars | r.1255 |
1255 | Radulph Basseth | Roscelin de Ros | r.1276 |
1276 | Galfrid de Laungeford | The Master of the Knights Templars | d.1277 |
1277 | William de la Launde | Rob. De Turville | |
1313 | John de Stannford | The Bishop of Lincoln | r. 1335 |
Cessation 1335 | |||
1335 | William Cross de Baumburgh | Ph. de Thame, Prior of Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem | r. 1342 |
1342 | Richard de Aston | (no patron mentioned) | d. 1348 |
1348 | John de Potteshall | Prior and Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem | r. 1350 |
1350 | Richard Duk (de Ellington) | Ph. de Thame, Prior. Etc | d. 1360 |
1351 | John de Kirkeby | Ph. de Thame, Prior, etc | d.1360 |
1360 | Adam de Charteriz Robert Foster (still Rector 1382) | John Penely | r. 1391 |
1391 | William Smith | (no patron mentioned) | r. 1392 |
1392 | William Ingelde | Hildebrande Inge, Locum Tenens of Prior of St John of Jerusalem | r. 1396 |
1396 | Thomas Jekys | Walter Grendon, Prior, etc | d. 1405 |
1405 – 1501
Date | Rectors | Patrons | Resigned |
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1405 | Stephen Stokes | " " | r. 1406 |
1406 | William Byngham | " " | r. 1408 |
1408 | John Aylmere | " " | r. 1411 |
1411 | John Wright | (no patron mentioned) | 1413 |
1413 | Richard Snowe | " | r. 1414 |
1414 | Rob., son of Simon de Baumburgh | Walter Grendon, Prior, etc | r. 1415 |
1415 | William Coneworth | " " | r. 1416 |
1416 | John Longe | " " | r. 1423 |
1423 | John Green John Evans | Hen. Cromhale, Prior, etc | r. 1452 |
1452 | William ffareyn | Robert Botyll, Prior, etc | r. 1454 |
1454 | Robert Crane | " " | r.1461 |
1461 | John Bolton | " " | r. 1465 |
1465 | Thomas Howde | " " | d. 1492 |
1492 | John Ineman | John Kendall, Prior, etc | r. 1501 |
1501 – 1707
Date | Rectors | Patrons | Resigned or Died |
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1501 | William Johnson | Thomas Newporte, Master, etc | |
Henry Empson, was Rector, 1535 | |||
No name given | Deprived 1554 | ||
1554 | Thomas Lambert | King Philip and Queen Mary | |
1579 | Walter Bickelles | Queen | Left 1579 |
1580 | Thomas Clarke | Queen | |
1590 | William Bate, M.A. | Ld. Chancellor, presentation revoked | 1591 |
1591 | John Brooke, M.A. | ||
1597 | Thomas Prowde, S.T.B. | Lord Keeper of the Great Seal | r. 1597 |
1597 | Henry Williamson, M.A. | ||
1614 | Michael Reade | The King (James I) | |
1625 | David Stevenson, M.A. | During the time of the Ferrar Community the Rector was ‘absent’, and the monthly Eucharist was celebrated in Little Gidding church by the Reverend Luke Groose, vicar of Great Gidding, with Nicholas Ferrar acting as Deacon | |
1651 | Edward Wallis | Parliament (appt 15 Jan 1647/8) | |
1659 | Farrar Collet, M.A. | " " | Cession 1663 |
1664 | James Wildbore | King Charles II | |
1674 | Anthony Hill | " " | d. 1691 |
1691 | Thomas Ferrar, M.A. | King William III and Queen Mary | r. 1707 |
Grandson of John Ferrar, great nephew of Nicholas Ferrar During this time he restored the church to the state we see it today, with the plain stone front; his brother John remained Lord of the Manor until 1748, when the estate passed out of the family |
1707 to present day
Date | Rectors | Patrons | Resigned or Died | |
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1707 | William Postlethwayte | d. 1731 | ||
1731 | William Robinson | d. 1781 | ||
1781 | Thomas Harris | King George III | d. 1792 | |
1792 | Gerard Clough | d. 1831 | ||
1831 | William Pullen | King William IV | ||
1843 | William Whall, D.D. | Queen Victoria From 1848-53 the Lord of the Manor, William Hopkinson, undertook the renovation of the church, with the addition of stained glass windows, the chandelier and a bell | d. 1874 | |
1874 | William Salmon Bagshaw, M.A. | r. 1913 | ||
1914 | John William Aytoun, LTh | Lord Chancellor | r. 1916 | |
1916 | James William Percy Jones, M.A. | George Fitzwilliam In the 1920s renovations included the wall sconces, given by Lady Margaret Proby of Elton Hall | r. 1957 | |
1958 | Andrew Chartres Brew Molony, M.A. | F.W. Dennis | r. 1961 | |
1962 | LF Ostler | George Fitzwilliam Little Gidding Fellowship formed 1970 | r. 1974 | |
1975 | DN deL Young | F.W. Dennis | r. 1977 | |
1977 | AOL Hodgson | George Fitzwilliam Community of Christ the Sower undertook care and maintenance of the church | r. 1981 | |
1983 | RWB van de Weyer | D. Dennis 1992, East window replaced by plain glass | 1994 | |
1994 | John Hindley | Sir Stephen Hastings | 1995 | |
1996 | Catharine Furlong | The Bishop of Ely 1998 Community disbanded, care of the church undertaken by the PCC and Wardens of Ferrar House | 2005 | |
2005 | Position vacant | - | ||
2006 | Jacqueline Duck | |||
2011 | Mary Jepp | |||
2017 | Mandy Flaherty | |||
2019 | Fiona Brampton (Chaplain) |