Bleasby St Mary

List of Incumbents

List of Vicars
in the church

Vicars up to the late 19th Century

The Rev Henry Williams, writing in 1890, put together a list of the Vicars of Bleasby, set against the reigning monarch.

1470 William Bagster 1461 Edward IV
1470 Ralf Long 1483 Edward V
              ditto 1483 Richard III
1502 William Wood 1485 Henry VII
1530 Richard Chapman 1509 Henry VIII
  ditto 1547 Edward VI
  ditto 1553 Mary
1558 William Bullen (Vicar of Farnsfield 1560-62) 1558 Elizabeth
1565 George Charlton   ditto
1568 Roger Martin   ditto
1572 Robt Sheepshank (Register 1573)   ditto
1599 ditto 1603 James I
1622 John Sheepshanke (Bur Sept 2, 1639) 1625 Charles I
1639 Simon Sachell (Bur 1658) 1649 Commonwealth
1658 John Jackson 1660 Charles II
1661 Henry Moore (aptd) 1685 James II
1689 William Benit 1689 William III and Mary
1703 Henry Roper 1702 Queen Anne
1712 W Neep (Buried 1717 “God bless Queen Anne”)   ditto
1717 I Barnard 1714 George I
1720 Samuel Bird 1727 George II
1729 William Fowler   ditto
1736 Henry Bugg   ditto
1761 Davies Pennell (D 1774) 1760 George III
1774 Richard Barrow   ditto
1779 Whalley Bugg   ditto
1783 Charles Fowler   ditto
1785 Henry Houson 1820 George III
1831 Charles Boothby 1830 William IV
1838 Morgan Watkins 1837 Victoria
1840 RH Wylde   ditto
1848 JW Marsh   ditto
1875 Nathaniel Midwinter   ditto
1888 Henry Lewis Williams   ditto

This list is believed to be more accurate than the list of Vicars displayed in the church.

More Recent Vicars

The following brings the list up to date:

1911 C C Shute
1917 H M Ward
1920 HLO Cherrington
1936 R Sherwood
1938 FD Wallis
1944 FS Curtis
1960 A Clarke
1970 B Hill
1983 Richard A Kirton
1991 Andrew de Berry
2010 Interregnum