Nottingham St MaryList of Incumbents
Vicars of St Mary’s
| Date |
Name |
Patron |
| 1086 |
Aitard |
Unknown |
| 1170s |
Roger de Poynibeck |
Unknown |
| 1179 |
Reginald of St. Mary |
Unknown |
| 1181c |
Elias of St. Mary |
Unknown |
| 1191 |
Silvester of Nottingham |
Unknown |
| 1226 |
Nicholas |
Unknown |
| 1228 |
Thomas de Punignal (Puingnant) |
The Archbishop of York by Lapse |
| 1230s |
Richard |
Unknown |
| c1235 |
Nicholas (? of Ostia) |
The Archbishop of York by Lapse |
| c1250 |
Philip de Norhamptone |
Unknown |
| c1266 |
William de Birley |
Unknown |
| c1279 |
Robert de Adinburg |
Unknown |
| 1289 |
Richard de Notingham |
Unknown |
| 1290 |
John de Ely |
King Edward I, holding Lenton Priory |
| 1304 |
Robert de Dalby |
The Prior and Convent of Lenton |
| 1313 |
Henry de Parva Halam |
Same Patron |
| 1317 |
John de Ludham |
Same Patron |
| 1322 |
John fil William Cosyn |
Same Patron |
| 1347 |
John de la Launde |
King Edward III, then holding Lenton Priory |
| 1347 |
Robert de Wakebrigge |
Same Patron |
| 1348 |
Richard de Radclyff |
Same Patron |
| 1348 |
Roger de Nydingworth |
Same Patron |
| 1349 |
Richard de Swanyngton |
Same Patron |
| 1351 |
Thomas Pascayl |
Same Patron |
| 1357 |
John Chatarez |
Same Patron |
| 1357 |
John Lorymer, of Hoveden |
Same Patron |
| 1364 |
John de Stapleford |
The Prior and Convent |
| 1371 |
William de Sandyacre |
Edward III, holding the Priory |
| 1374 |
Robert de Retford |
Same Patron |
| 1401 |
Richard de Chilwell |
The Prior and Convent. |
| 1409 |
William Ode |
Same Patron |
| 1442 |
William Wryght |
Same Patron |
| 1461 |
John Hurt, S.T.D. |
Same Patron |
| 1476 |
Thomas Turner, M.A. |
Same Patron |
| 1498 |
John Greve, S.T.B. |
Same Patron |
| 1499 |
Symeon Yates, Dec. B. |
Same Patron |
| 1504 |
Richard Taverner LL.B. |
Same Patron |
| 1534 |
Richard Mathew, Dec.B. |
The Assignee of the Priory and Convent. |
| 1535 |
Richard Wylde, M.A. |
The Prior and Convent. |
| 1554 |
Oliver Hawood |
Philip and Mary |
| 1568 |
John Lowthe, LL.B. |
Queen Elizabeth I |
| 1572 |
William Underne |
Same Patron |
| 1578 |
Robert Aldridge |
Same Patron |
| 1616 |
Oliver Wytherington, M.A. |
William Wetherington, Gent. |
| 1616 |
John Tolson, S.T.B. |
Sir Robert Pierrepont |
| 1617 |
Ralph Hansby, M.A. |
The Assignee of the preceding |
| 1635 |
Edmund Lacock, B.D. |
Robert Earl of Kingston |
| 1645 |
William Howitt |
(Presbyterian?) |
| 1647/8 |
Nicholas Folkingham |
(Presbyterian) |
| 1649 |
Jonathan Boole |
(Presbyterian) |
| 1651 |
John Whitlock M.A.
and
William Reynolds, M.A. |
Appointed by Joint suffrage of the Congregation |
| 1662 |
George Masterson, M.A. |
Sir Robert Pierrepont |
| 1686 |
Samuel Crowborough, D.D. |
Earl of Kingston |
| 1690 |
Benjamin Camfield, M.A. |
Same Patron |
| 1694 |
Timothy Caryl, M.A. |
Earl of Kingston |
| 1698 |
Edward Clarke, M.A. |
Same Patron |
| 1708 |
Samuel Berdmore, M.A. |
Marquis of Dorchester |
| 1723 |
John Disney, M.A. |
Duke of Kingston |
| 1730 |
Thomas Berdmore, M.A. |
Archbishop of York |
| 1743 |
Scrope Berdmore, D.D. |
Duke of Kingston |
| 1770 |
Nathan Haines, D.D. |
Same Patron |
| 1806 |
John Bristow, D.D. |
Earl Manvers |
| 1810 |
George Hutchinson, M.A. |
Same Patron |
| 1817 |
George Wilkins, D.D. |
Same Patron |
| 1843 |
Joshua William Brooks, M.A. |
Same Patron |
| 1864 |
Francis Morse, M.A. |
Same Patron |
| 1884 |
John Gray Richardson, M.A. |
Bishop of Southwell |
| 1900 |
Arthur Hamilton Baynes, D.D., Bp. |
Same Patron |
| 1913 |
Thomas Field, D.D. |
Same Patron |
| 1926 |
James Geoffrey Gordon, M.A. |
Same Patron |
| 1933 |
Neville Stuart Talbot, D.D., Bp. |
Same Patron |
| 1943 |
Robert Henry Hawkins, M.A. |
Same Patron |
| 1958 |
Douglas Russell Feaver, M.A. |
Same Patron |
| 1973 |
Michael James Jackson, M.A. |
Queen Elizabeth II |
| 1991 |
James Edward McKenzie Neale, B.A. |
Bishop of Southwell |
| 2004 |
Andrew Deuchar |
Same Patron |
| 2009 |
Christopher Harrison |
Same Patron |
Notes
 The
list of Vicars
on display in
the church |
Nicholas (inst. 1226 and 1235)
was nephew of Hugo Bishop of Ostia, later Pope Gregory IX.
In the late 1230s Richard
was Vicar of St. Mary’s and possibly Dean of Nottingham.
The rapid succession of incumbents between
1347 and 1351 was an indication of the havoc wrought by the Black Death, which
carried off two-thirds of the clergy.
In 1354 Thomas Pascayl appeared
at the Borough Court, where he was accused of rape and robbery. He questioned
the right of the court to try him, judgement was put in respite until the next
court. There seems to be no further record on this matter.
From 1454-1462 John Hurt was
a Doctor of Divinity at Cambridge and was a co-founder and Master of Christ’s
College. He willed his valuable library to Cambridge Colleges. He was vicar
of St Mary’s from 1462-1467.
The Vicar in Henry VIII’s reign Richard
Wylde held office through the Reformation period, and into the reign
of Queen Mary, and his successor remained into
the reign of Queen Elizabeth I; thus illustrating the continuity of
the Church.
Whitlock and Reynolds ‘whose
friendship was such that they seemed to have but one soul’ were styled ‘Preaching
Elders’.
Canon Francis Morse, Vicar from
1864 to 1886, was Chairman of the School Board and one of the founders of the Nottingham
High School for Girls.
In July 2003 Canon Eddie Neale retired
from his position of Vicar of St Mary’s. An interregnum followed, the
vacuum being filled by the Lecturer, the Rev Stephen Morris. In April 2004
the Rev Andrew Deuchar the Rector of St Peter’s and
All Saints’ became Priest in Charge at St Mary’s. In March 2008
Canon Deuchar ceased to be Priest in Charge, and the Rev Christopher Harrison
was licensed in February 2009.
Pictures of Some of the Clergy
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