Millennium Project
by Jon Malings
A record of the Clergy of Deddington hangs on the wall at the back of the lady chapel of the Church of St. Peter & St. Paul. This page provides a transcription of that record but also includes additional information from the Parish Registers, denoted by **.
Follow this link to see an image of the original document and a pointer to the "Clergy of the Church of England" database which provides a comprehensive list of appointees to the Parish.
There is also a link to an article about Deddington's most illustrious clergyman, Reverend William Cotton Risley.
Unfortunately we have no detail of Sir Henrie Mathew, parish priest in 1549, who was ordered to be hanged.
S.S. Peter & Paul Deddington
List of Clergy
The interval between 1345 and 1523, during which no name
is inserted, follows the cessation of the institution of Rectors,
on the appropriation of the Church by the Dean and Cannons of Windsor
Rectors or other early Clergy
Ranulph Brito [Le Bret] Rector, died 1247
Ethelmar de Valence instituted 1247, consecrated Bishop of Winchester 1260
John Walrond instituted 1269
Nicholas de Marnham Rector, died 1292
William de Holecote instituted 1292
Adam de Bernentone Vicar [qv. Substitute of the Rector] 1312
Robert de Harwedon resigned 1318
William Aylmer instituted 1318, died 1328
William de Neuport instituted 1328, died 1332
Remegius Chaplain of Deddington, circa 1332
John de Coldyngham instituted 1332
Hugh de Neuton Rector, died 1345
William de Annem instituted 1345
Vicars and others
William Farmer Vicar in 1523
Thomas Hotchynson Vicar in 1534
Thomas Hodgkinson [qv. The same as the preceding] was Vicar in 1534-43
John Brown instituted 1543, resigned 1558
John Gryffyth was described by testators as “my ghostly father” [qv. Chantry priest] 1545
Sir Henrie Mathew p[ar]ishe p[rie]st [Ordered to be hanged] 1549
William Edlynson instituted 1558
Christopher Allsop instituted 1565
William Bennett instituted 1595, died 1619
John Edmunds BA. instituted 1619, died 1630
William Bradenell MA. instituted 1630, died 1654
**Richard Harris Clarke in 1638
**William Hall Vicar in 1643
William Hall Vicar in 1644, died 1654
**Edward Kempster "began to be Clarke...September 29th 1658 "
James Ayer Vicar in 1660, died 1664
Samuel Northcote MA instituted 1664
Clifton Stone Minister [Par Reg] [qv. Vicar] in 1667
Jaspar Cann Minister [Par Reg] [qv. Vicar] in 1669-1670
Jeremiah Wheate Vicar in 1673, died 1679
**Jeremiah Wheate Vicar in 1687, died February 1696.
Charles King instituted in 1679, died 1700
Richard Short instituted in 1700, died 1747
John Short BA. instituted in 1747, died 1752
John Henchman MA. instituted 1752, died 1790
John Faulkner BA. instituted 1790, died 1821
Richard Greaves instituted 1822, resigned 1836
William Cotton Risley MA. instituted 1836, resigned 1848
James Brogden MA. instituted 1848, died 1864
James Turner BA. instituted 1864, resigned 1877
Thomas Boniface MA. instituted 1878, resigned 1924
Maurice Frost MA. instituted 1924, died 1961
George Henry Palmer ARC instituted 1963, resigned 1978
Richard Hannah MA. instituted 1981, resigned 1989
Kenneth G Reeves BD ARC instituted 1989, resigned 2000
Hugh R B White MA. D.Phil. instituted 2001. resigned 2014
Ann L Goldthorp. instituted 2015