Hoveringham St Michael

List of Incumbents

At some time after 1140 Hoveringham Parish Church was given by Robert de Hoveringham to the nearby Augustinian Priory at Thurgarton, the adjoining parish. Both parishes were granted by Henry VIII to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1546. The two parishes were often served by a single curate, from at least that date. The list dates that a curate was known to be in-post. This may not be the year of induction or departure and interregnums of varying length may have been fairly common.

Hoveringham – Curates

Date of Institution	Name
1559	No curate for some time
1564-1566	George Pulleyn	Assaulted in the churchyard 1665
1587	Ralph Hollingsworth
1589		Parishioners appealed for “a standing curate”
1592	Richard Jackson
1596		“Our curate preacheth within his own cure”
1603	No curate
1609	Robert Whalley	Probably also curate of Kneeton Died and buried at Kneeton 1613
1617	Mark Baguley
1617-1618	Edward Greaves
1621-1622	No Curate
1625- 1633	Peter Coates (Thurgarton)	Also vicar of Arnold
1634-1642	John Morton	Also curate of Kneeton and from 1632 had held Stoke

Thurgarton and Hoveringham Curates

Date of Institution	Name
1650	William Stoyt
1663-1670	James Boote
1671	James Clayton
1672-1673	Jonathon Jordon
1674-1679	Lawrence Wood	1685 Minor Canon Chester
1680	No Curate
1681-1714	Edward Morehouse	Died 1714 –Buried at Thurgarton
1715-1717	Richard Tresham	Vicar of Barkston lived at Bottesford also spent time in the West Indies
1717-1718	Thomas Hall	Vicar of Car Colston. Rector of Screveton
1719-1721	Joseph Chadwick	Also vicar of Arnold
1722-1774	John Rose	Rector of Bilborough and Strelley 1722/26 Rector Screveton. 1735-1774. Died 1778. Buried Hoveringham

Perpetual Curates

Date of Institution	Name
1774 -1799	Kaye Mawer	Died 1799. Buried Hoveringham.
1799	John Thomas Becher	Magistrate and prison reformer. Died 1848, Southwell.
1848	Henry Lee Guilsband

Vicars of Thurgarton with Hoveringham

Date of Institution	Name
1873	Attwell Mervyn Yates Bayley	Died 1921. Monument at Hoveringham.
1920-1928	Vincent Taylor Kirkby	Died 1927. Buried at Thurgarton.
1928	William Basil Evans
1935	George Herbert Halstead
1950	Francis William Harpur Jessup
1959	Philip Harper New BA, L Th
1970	Bernard Hill BA	Canon and Rural Dean, Southwell Minster
1983	Richard Kirton MA

Vicars of Thurgarton with Hoveringham and Bleasby with Halloughton

Date of Institution	Name
1989	Richard Kirton MA
1993	Andrew de Berry
2011	Claire Goode