Hawksworth St Mary and All Saints

List of Incumbents

Start Date	Name of parson	Patron(s)	Notes / Reason for leaving
	Unknown	Probably Thurgarton Priory	The church was known to be in existence around 1154-1166
1167	Richard, Prior of Lincoln St Katherine	St Katherine’s Priory, Lincoln	A 1207 manuscript records that Richard had been parson of Hawksworth for 40 years but had just resigned
c. 1207	Henry, Prior of Thurgarton St Peter	Thurgarton Priory
c. 1208	Martin	Adam de Newmarché
c.1208	Elias, Parson of Hawksworth	Adam de Newmarché	Died or resigned around 1208
c. 1208	Robert de Camsale	Adam de Newmarché
2 April 1241	James Poignant	Presented jointly by the Prior & of St Katharine, Lincoln and the Prior of Thurgarton, Notts	Joint presentation in accordance with the terms of a 1208 settlement of a dispute over the advowson
21 Sept 1292	William de Wrelton	The Prior and Convent of Thurgarton
15 Jan 1313	Reginald de Sybthorpe	Simon de Sybthorpe	Resigned for the rectory of Strelley which he began on 3 Jan 1320
3 Jan 1320	Roger de Aslacton	The Prior and Convent of Thurgarton	Died
23 July 1345	William de Sibthorp, acolyte	William de Middleton	Resigned
24 July 1365	Hugh Bozon	Elyas/Ellis de Middleton
19 Feb 1400	Thomas Watton	The Prior and Convent of Thurgarton	Resigned
18 October 1403	John Taylor	Elyas de Middleton	By his will, proved 21 April 1434, he requested to be buried ‘in the churchyard, before the cross’
18 Jan 1433	William King	The prior and Convent of Thurgarton
	Laurence Daynet		Resigned
18 March 1437	Richard Aylmer	The Prior and Convent of Thurgarton	Died
26 Sept 1454	William Wightman	William Middleton	Resigned
1 March 1467	John Baly	The Prior and Convent of Thurgarton	Resigned
25 Nov 1472	William Bannester, or Barmester	William Middleton	Resigned for the church of Kelham which he began 30 Aug 1478
30 Aug 1478	Thomas Southworth	The Prior and Convent of Thurgarton	By his will dated 17 April 1505, he requested to be buried in the chancel
11 Oct 1505	Richard Smyth	The Archbishop of York, by lapse	By his will proved 11 Jan 1506, he requested to be buried ‘in the chancel of St Edmund, off the south part of the chancel’
7 Jan 1506	Edward Woodhouse	The Prior and Convent of Thurgarton	By his will dated 19 April 1528, he requested to be buried in the chancel
Probably 1523	Robert Sutton		Died
1537 - dissolution of Thurgarton Priory
20 July 1543	Robert Pride	The Assigns of the Prior and Convent of Thurgarton	Previously at Thoroton parish. Incumbent until 1551. By his will dated 17 July 1554 he requested to be buried in the chancel
20 Feb 1554	Bryan Saundford	Richard Whalley	Died 1584 Also Rector of Whitwell Derbyshire
25 June 1585	John Deane or Depup MA	James Cooper, gent	John Depup MA died 4/5 Jan 1602
7 May 1603	George Bingley BA	King James I	Buried at Hawksworth 18 April 1628
3 June 1629	George Holmes	William, Earl of Newcastle	Died
7 March 1630/31	Robert Rockold or Rockall		Buried at Hawksworth 26 Aug 1659. Thoroton states ‘In the chancel about the year 1659 was buried Robert Rockold, the most ingenious Rector of this place, aged about 60 years. A bachelor, and a great example of Piety, Charity and Eloquence’
	Benjamin Clay	Unknown but Robert Butler, William Clay and others bought the manor and land at Hawksworth in 1653	Also held the benefice of Hawksworth during the 1653-59 Commonwealth. Buried at Southwell 17 July 1660
11 Sept 1662	John Simpson	Robert Butler	Buried at Hawksworth 8 Oct 1679
After 1676	Richard Bradford MA	According to Throsby, William Clay Esq presented the rector in 1690	Buried at Hawksworth 14 March 1700
	Pickering Dickinson		Of Hawksworth in his will dated 3 Aug 1700
7 June 1701	Francis Chappell	Richard Butler Esq (son of Robert Butler who died before 1701)	Buried at Hawksworth 11 Aug 1707
15 Jan 1707/8	Humphrey Bralesford or Brailsford MA	Richard Butler of Lincoln’s Inn, Middx	Mr Humphrey Bralesford, Rector, and Mrs Mary Solomon were married at Hawksworth 15 July 1729. He was admitted to the prebend of Norwell Tertia Pars at Southwell 20 April 1721 and held the same until his death. Died 1733
15 Feb 1733/34	Hammond Turner MA	Thomas Wright, gent of Sheffield	The Rev Hammond Turner, parish of Treeton, co York, and Elizabeth Creed were married at Wollaton Notts 15 Jan 1746/7. He died in 1774
4 Jan 1775	John Dixon MA	Elizabeth Turner of Treeton Co York and Job Brough Esq of Newark Notts
1784	Creed Turner		Son of Revd Hammond Turner. He died at Treeton, in 1805, aged 55
1788	Francis Parker BA		Not listed in Induction Mandate. Described as Rector of Hawksworth in a history of Sheffield (Hunter 1819). Ceded to John Storer in 1808
5 Feb 1808	John Storer BA	John Storer of Nottingham MD and Lois his wife (nee Turner)	Rector of Hawksworth for 29 years. Died at Clifton 4 Feb 1837, buried in Hawksworth church.
22 Apr 1837	John Storer MA	John Storer of Lenton Firs, Doctor of Medicine	Resigned Nov 1850
8 Jan 1851	George Hunt Smyttan BA	John Storer, the previous incumbent	He rebuilt the chancel, erected a new school, wrote the hymn ‘Forty days and forty nights’ and was secretary to the Mission to Central Africa formed by David Livingstone. He resigned due to ill health in 1858
14 Jan 1859	William Walton Herringham MA	George Hunt Smyttan	Resigned in 1873 and went to Old Cleeve in Somerset
31 Jan 1873	John Blurton Webb MA	Rev William Walton Herringham, of Old Cleeve, Somerset	Came from Old Cleeve in Somerset. Resigned 29 Sept 1878
8 Jan 1879	John Glenn Bayles	George Blackburn Esq of 56 London Road Nottingham (father in law to JG Bayles)	Died at Hawksworth rectory 11 Dec 1906 age 60 and interred in Hawksworth churchyard
6 Sept 1907	Harry Clarkson MA	Agnes Fielding Bayles of Hawksworth, widow
5 Oct 1917	Albert Alfred Kerridge	Agnes Fielding Bayles of Radcliffe Road Nottingham, widow

	Alfred John Hallmark		Described as the vicar of Hawksworth in Kelly’s Directory of Notts 1941
1940s or 1950s	Rev Wadsworth		Jointly with Scarrington parish
12 Jan 1966	Geoffrey Frank Blackmore		Cranmer Group of parishes established in 1966. Died in office in 1980
4 March 1982	Sidney Frederick Rising		31 December 1986
1987	Douglas Bridge-Collins		1998
2001	Reginald Arthur Walton		Retired in 2007
2007	Karl Przywala