Withersfield Clergy

Incumbents of St Mary's

1290: John de Thetford

1296: Robert de Gilling

1334: John le Smyth

1448: Oliver Creyfield

1470: John de la Roo

1474: William Chauntrell

1505: Nicholas Silvester

1505-1521: Nat Johnson

1558-1584: Robert Fewell

1586-1590: Robert Browne

1590: Esau Yarner

1595-1634: Isaac Morrowe

1634-1660: Vincent Pearse

1664-1684: Solomon Johnson

1685-1717: Daniel Algar

1717-1723: Bardsey Fisher

1723-1756: Abraham Oakes

1756-1781: Thomas Barnard

Barnard was also master of Leeds Grammar School and a chaplain to HM the King. He is buried in the churchyard beneath an impressive monument including a stone obelisk, but refused to permit an inscription to be made on the monument.

1782-1827: Robert Cary Barnard

1827-1879: William Mayd

Assistant Curate 1861: William Henry Barlee

Assistant Curate 1868-1871: Thomas Edward Marshall

Assistant Curate 1874-1876: Charles William Hatten

1879-1896:  Thomas Edward Marshall

Assistant Curate 1883: Richard Yorke

1896-1935: William John Ayling 

1936-1961: Stanley Austin

1965-1972: John Keen

1973-1982: David Duval

1982-1984: Andrew Livingston Haig

Team Vicar 1983-1987: Alan Beardsmore

Team Vicar: 1987-1990: Andrew Martin Yates

1990-2006: Edmund John Betts

Team Vicar 1992-1994: David Richard Underwood

2007-2019: Ian Michael Finn

2020: Maximillian Luke Darryl Drinkwater

 

Patrons of St Mary's

1603: Sir Giles Alington

1831: G T W H Duffield

1844: T Duffield

1873: William Mayd

1912: Col F J Ryder