++ Little Gidding Church - A list of rectors ++

History – A list of rectors 1200–present day

1200–1400
1405–1501
1501–1707
1707 to present day

1200–1400

Date	Rectors	Patrons	Resigned or Died
1223	Robert de Hedlaya	The Bishop of Lincoln
1238	John de Richmund	Bro. Ro. Saumford, Master of the Knights Templars	r.1255
1255	Radulph Basseth	Roscelin de Ros	r.1276
1276	Galfrid de Laungeford	The Master of the Knights Templars	d.1277
1277	William de la Launde	Rob. De Turville
1313	John de Stannford	The Bishop of Lincoln	r. 1335
	Cessation 1335
1335	William Cross de Baumburgh	Ph. de Thame, Prior of Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem	r. 1342
1342	Richard de Aston	(no patron mentioned)	d. 1348
1348	John de Potteshall	Prior and Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem	r. 1350
1350	Richard Duk (de Ellington)	Ph. de Thame, Prior. Etc	d. 1360
1351	John de Kirkeby	Ph. de Thame, Prior, etc	d.1360
1360	Adam de Charteriz Robert Foster (still Rector 1382)	John Penely	r. 1391
1391	William Smith	(no patron mentioned)	r. 1392
1392	William Ingelde	Hildebrande Inge, Locum Tenens of Prior of St John of Jerusalem	r. 1396
1396	Thomas Jekys	Walter Grendon, Prior, etc	d. 1405

1405–1501

Date	Rectors	Patrons	Resigned or Died
1405	Stephen Stokes	" "	r. 1406
1406	William Byngham	" "	r. 1408
1408	John Aylmere	" "	r. 1411
1411	John Wright	(no patron mentioned)	1413
1413	Richard Snowe	"	r. 1414
1414	Rob., son of Simon de Baumburgh	Walter Grendon, Prior, etc	r. 1415
1415	William Coneworth	" "	r. 1416
1416	John Longe	" "	r. 1423
1423	John Green John Evans	Hen. Cromhale, Prior, etc	r. 1452
1452	William ffareyn	Robert Botyll, Prior, etc	r. 1454
1454	Robert Crane	" "	r.1461
1461	John Bolton	" "	r. 1465
1465	Thomas Howde	" "	d. 1492
1492	John Ineman	John Kendall, Prior, etc	r. 1501

1501–1707

Date	Rectors	Patrons	Resigned or Died
1501	William Johnson	Thomas Newporte, Master, etc
	Henry Empson, was Rector, 1535
	No name given		Deprived 1554
1554	Thomas Lambert	King Philip and Queen Mary
1579	Walter Bickelles	Queen	Left 1579
1580	Thomas Clarke	Queen
1590	William Bate, M.A.	Ld. Chancellor, presentation revoked	1591
1591	John Brooke, M.A.
1597	Thomas Prowde, S.T.B.	Lord Keeper of the Great Seal	r. 1597
1597	Henry Williamson, M.A.
1614	Michael Reade	The King (James I)
1625	David Stevenson, M.A.	During the time of the Ferrar Community the Rector was ‘absent’, and the monthly Eucharist was celebrated in Little Gidding church by the Reverend Luke Groose, vicar of Great Gidding, with Nicholas Ferrar acting as Deacon.
1651	Edward Wallis	Parliament (appt 15 Jan 1647/8)
1659	Farrar Collet, M.A.	" "	Cession 1663
1664	James Wildbore	King Charles II
1674	Anthony Hill	" "	d. 1691
1691	Thomas Ferrar, M.A.	King William III and Queen Mary	r. 1707
	Grandson of John Ferrar, great nephew of Nicholas Ferrar During this time he restored the church to the state we see it today, with the plain stone front; his brother John remained Lord of the Manor until 1748, when the state passed out of the family

1707 to present day

Date	Rectors	Patrons	Resigned or Died
1707	William Postlethwayte		d. 1731
1731	William Robinson		d. 1781
1781	Thomas Harris	King George III	d. 1792
1792	Gerard Clough		d. 1831
1831	William Pullen	King William IV
1843	William Whall, D.D.	Queen Victoria From 1848-53 the Lord of the Manor, William Hopkinson, undertook the renovation of the church, with the addition of stained glass windows, the chandelier and a bell	d. 1874
1874	William Salmon Bagshaw, M.A.		r. 1913
1914	John William Aytoun, LTh	Lord Chancellor	r. 1916
1916	James William Percy Jones, M.A.	George Fitzwilliam In the 1920s renovations included the wall sconces, given by Lady Margaret Proby of Elton Hall	r. 1957
1958	Andrew Chartres Brew Molony, M.A.	F.W. Dennis	r. 1961
1962	LF Ostler	George Fitzwilliam Little Gidding Fellowship formed 1970	r. 1974
1975	DN deL Young	F.W. Dennis	r. 1977
1977	AOL Hodgson	George Fitzwilliam Community of Christ the Sower undertook care and maintenance of the church	r. 1981
1983	RWB van de Weyer	D. Dennis 1992, East window replaced by plain glass	1994
1994	John Hindley	Sir Stephen Hastings	1995
1996	Catharine Furlong	The Bishop of Ely 1998 Community disbanded, care of the church undertaken by the PCC and Wardens of Ferrar House	2005
2005	Position vacant		-

Little Gidding history
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Brass plaque
List of rectors situated on north wall of church.

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Memorial to the Reverend Andrew Molony
Rector of Little Gidding Church 1958-1961

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Little Gidding Church Interior

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© Text and photographs by Jillian Wilkinson for the Giddings PCC, March 2003. Revised 2006