Thurgarton St Peter

List of Incumbents

On the suppression of the priory the advowson of Thurgarton was granted by Henry VIII to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1546. The Cooper family were the lessees for several generations with the stipulation that a minister or curate be provided. From 1650 to 1774 he resided at Thurgarton Priory and acted as chaplain to the Cooper family. In 1848 the livings of Hoveringham and Thurgarton were united by Order of the Council with Trinity College holding the patronage.

Incumbents of Thurgarton

1587	Ralph Hollingworth
1589	John Turvey
1596	Richard Jackson
1603	John Daubnes
1609	Edward Greaves MA
1620	Oliver Griffin MA
1625	Peter Coates
1629	William Brownley
1634	George Darker
1637	James Brecknock BA
1639	Zachariah Trig MA
1659	William Stoyt
1663	James Boote BA
1671	James Clayton
1672	Jonathan Jordan
1674	Lawrence Wood MA Minor Canon Chester 1685
1681	Edward Morehouse BA
1715	Richard Tresham went to West Indies
1717	Thomas Hall
1719	Joseph Chadwick
1722	John Rose BA
1774	Kaye Mawer
1799	John Thomas Becher MA
1848	Henry Lea Guillebaud MA
1873	Atwell Mervyn Yates Baylay MA
1920	Vincent Taylor Kirkby MA
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
1993	Andrew de Berry