Worksop Priory

List of Incumbents

Priors of Worksop Priory

William de Huntingdon

first prior, occurs c.1154

William

1180-81

An(s)chetil

occurs 1187

Stephen

c. 1196

Henry

1200-1218

Robert (?de Pikeburn)

c. 1213 X  1214 and 1231

Walter of Lenton

from 1233; occurs c.1236 and 1238

John

1258 X 1265

Ralph

pre-1279

Alan de London

resigned 1303

John de Tykill

1303-1314

Robert de Carlton

1314-

{unnamed}

1375-

John

occurs 1396

Roger de Upton

1397-1404

John de Laghton

1404-

Charles Flemmyng

occurs 1451, resigned 1463

William Acworth

1463-1485

Robert Warde

died 1518

Thomas Gateford

1518-

Nicholas Storth

1523-

Thomas Stokkes

occurs 1535; surrendered priory 15 Nov 1538

(Knowles et al 1972; Smith and London 2001; Smith 2008)

Vicars of Worksop

Date of

Institution

Vicar

Patron

 

1276

Alanus de London

Prior & Convent of Worksop

1300

Adam de Rotherham, Canon

Prior & Convent of Worksop

1324

Robert de Beverlae, Canon

Prior & Convent of Worksop

1328

William de Hanay, Canon

Prior & Convent of Worksop

1358

Richard de Trent

Prior & Convent of Worksop

1390

John de Stanley, Canon

Prior & Convent of Worksop

1405

Thomas Barneby, Canon

Prior & Convent of Worksop

Resigned

Walter Burne, Canon

Prior & Convent of Worksop

1450

John Howe

Prior & Convent of Worksop

1452

John Emlay, Canon

Prior & Convent of Worksop

 

Walter Burne, Canon

Prior & Convent of Worksop

1472

Thomas Ingill, Capitular Canon

Prior & Convent of Worksop

1486

Thomas Scott, Presbytery Canon

Prior & Convent of Worksop

1519

John Johnson, Canon

Prior & Convent of Worksop

1535

Thomas Howard, Presbytery Canon

Prior & Convent of Worksop

1544

John Thornley, Presbyter

Henry VIII

1577

John Goodriche, Clerk

Richard Whalley Esq.

1601

Richard Barnard, Clerk

Richard Whalley Esq.

1615

Oliver Bray, Canon

Richard Whalley Esq.

1615

William Carte, M.A.

Richard Whalley Esq.

1628

Samuel Smyth, B.A.

Francis Rhodes Esq.

1662

Walter Barnard, Canon

Sir Francis Rhodes, Bart.

1673

Samuel Buckingham, Clerk, M.A.

Bishop of London

1685

Thomas Calton

 

1698

Jacob Calton

Sir M Rhodes, Bart.

1718

John Cook

T Wentworth Esq.

1758

John Ward

Marquis of Buckingham

1778

The Hon. Philip Howard

Marquis of Buckingham

1783

Thomas Carter

Earl Fitzwilliam

1792

Thomas Stacye, M.A.

Duke of Norfolk

1847

James Appleton, M.A.

Duke of Newcastle

1870

Edward Hawley, M.A.

Duke of Newcastle

1882

Thomas Henry Slodden

Duke of Newcastle

1909

George James A. d’Arcy, Canon

Duke of Newcastle

1941

James George Morton Howard

Superior General of the Society of

St John the Evangelist,

Oxford

1955

Ralph H Foster BA Canon&Proctor

1967

Peter H. Boulton BA Canon&Precentor

1988

Bernard L. Holdridge

Trustees of St Stephen’s House, Oxford

1995

Andrew R Wagstaff, B.D.

St Stephen’s Oxford

2007

Nicolas Spicer, B.A.

St Stephen’s, Oxford