Fledborough St Gregory

List of Incumbents

Date of

Institution

Rector

Patron

 

1287

Hugh de Normanton

Nigellus de Liseus

1291

Ralph de Liseus

 

1318

Thomas de Bugdene [Buckden]

John de Liseus

1333

Richard de Glatton

John de Liseus (Mil)

 

Robert de Grene

 

1406

Nicholas Coke

Guardians of Thomas Bassett

1411

Thomas Pensax

Idem

1418

Robert Warsop

Richard Stanhope (Mil)

1437

Thomas Walker

Feoffees of above

 

Thomas Suthwell

 

1470

Richard Chauntre

 

1485

Roger Perkyll

Thomas Bassett (Arm)

1490

Martin Cokks MA

Idem

1493

Thomas Curtas

Idem

1499

Edward Basset

Richard Basset (Arm)

1502

John Hall

Idem

1534

Robert Trafford

John Basset (Arm)

 

T Washington

 

 

Ralph Bylby

 

1592

James Allebye

John Basset (Arm)

1613

John Savage

Domestic chaplain to Gilbert, Earl of Shrewsbury, Patron

1618

James Clayton MA

William Cavendish (Mil)

1639

Edward Henshaw MA

Robert, Earl of Kingston

1668

Philip Squire

Henry, Marquis of Dorchester

1712

William Sweetapple

Evelyn, Marquis of Dorchester

1755

John Richardson

Duke of Kingston

1779

John Charter

Duchess of Kingston

1784

John Penrose

Archbishop of York (by lapse)

1829

William Bury

Earl Manvers

1829

Augustus Otway Fitzgerald

Idem

c. 1852-3

Charles Nevil

Idem

1877

George Senior Wilkinson Kershaw

Idem

1900

Charles Cadogan Campbell

Idem

1922

Arthur B Baldwin

Idem

1931

Leonard Conway Warner

Idem

1955

Robert John Spencer

The Chancellor (by lapse)

1975

John Brown

The Bishop (DC of York, by rotation

1988

Jean Calvert

The Bishop (DC of York, by rotation

Washington, noted above as Rector in 1534, was presumably a papist, since he was among the absentees reported at the royal visitation of the Northern province in 1559, and he was not subsequently restored. Instead, Ralph Bylby was instituted (Wilkinson, 1940, 13).