Misson St John the Baptist

List of Incumbents

The church of Misson was given to the Gilbertine priory of Mattersey at its foundation c. 1185 and Misson remained a rectory until 1349 when it was appropriated to Mattersey and a vicarage was ordained 1349. At the dissolution of the priory the advowson was retained by the Crown who presented vicars until 1958 when the patronage passed to the bishop of Southwell by exchange.

Rectors

1228	Thomas de Crumwell
1250	Nicholas de Rogerfeld [Rotherfeld]
1291/2	William de Kelsogh [Kelsholt]
1308	Adam son of William de Pickering
1317	Master Thomas de Garton
1320	William son of Robert de Risley
1333/4	John de Sculthorp

Vicars

1350	Roger de Waddeworth
1358	William de Fulbirn
1401	William Steven
1401	Thomas de Retford
1401/2	John Futtyng
1415/6	William de Shawb
1423	John Stacy
1431	William Doucet
	William Gledawe
1481	John Cutheix
1496	Ralph Baker
1515	Ralph Baker
1527	Robert Yolle
1533	John Bateman
1540/1	Thomas Webster
1543/4	John Kyppes
1600/1	Robert Horberye
	Martin Horbury
1661	Hugh Shawe
1676	John Rayner
1680	Thomas Waterhouse
1715	John Fosse
1753	John Ella
1803	Edward Nicholson
1829	Robert Evans
1848	William Thorp
1861	Colin Postlethwaite
1885	Harry Roger Rolfe
1885	John Richard Baldwin
1889	Frank William Keene
1919	Hugh Cowell Kinred
1922	Frederick Herbert Barnett
1927	Herbert Humphrey Skinner
1933	Edwin Smith
1953	Edward F. H. Dunnicliff
1955	Reginald George Cornwell
1960	Norman F. H. White