Title
FELMERSHAM (St.Mary)
Rectors
- Robert Grosseteste - 1247 [subdeacon; still rector in 1261, see LL1/201]
- M. Campanus de Nauaria
- M. Anthony de Niniano - 23 Mar 1297 [capellanus; on death of M. Campanus de Nauaria; Patron, King Edward]
- D. Thomas de Peneseye - 17 Dec 1314 [on death of M. Anthony de Niniano]
- Adam de Okebourn - 11 Mar 1317 [acolite on dimission of Thomas de Peneseye; Patron, King Edward]
- M. John de Barnham - 3 Sep 1333 [priest; on death of D. Adam de Okebourn]
- M. John de Schropham - 15 Jun 1363 [commanded by the Bishop with the consent of the Warden and Scholars of King's College, Cambridge]
- D. Richard Clareburgh
- William Prentis - 24 Jul 1386 [priest; on resignation of D. Richard Clareburgh]
- D. John Thomas - 10 Feb 1405 [priest; vacant]
- John Steynton - 2 Aug 1409 [Rector of Longefeld, on exchange with D. John Thomas]
- S. John Stokes - 14 Nov 1416 [Vicar of St. Martin in the Fields, London, on exchange with D. John Steynton]
- D. Richard Sampton - 20 Jun 1420
- William Casyn - 11 Dec 1423 [priest; on resignation of D. Richard Sampton]
- D. Richard Richardisson - 5 Oct 1455 [priest; on death of D. William Cosyn]
- D. Thomas Wedowe
- D. Robert Richardson - 15 May 1464 [priest; on resignation of D. Thomas Wedowe]
- D. Robert Heryson - 24 Nov 1469 [priest; on resignation of D. Robert Richardson]
- D. John Thomas
- M. Richard Cobb - 20 Dec 1506 [M.A.; on resignation of D. John Thomas; pension of xxs.]
- D. Robert Modie - 30 Oct 1538 [capellanus; on resignation of Richard Cobb]
- [VICARS]
- D. George Stephinson - 7 Nov 1541 [clerk; on death of last incumbent]
- Thomas Soames
- William Tofte - 13 Aug 1578 [clerk; presented to the Vicarage of Felmersham cum Pavenham; Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury by lapse]
- Henry Wattes - 30 Sep 1561 [clerk; on death of last incumbent; Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury]
- John Roo - 3 Jun 1562
- Thomas Nicolson - 28 Sep 1575 [Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge]
- Edward Still - 20 Jan 1579
- Thomas Banister - 16 Oct 1591 [M.A.]
- John Hudleston - 5 Dec 1597 [S.T.B., on resignation of Thomas Banister; Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge]
- Humphrey Totnam - 27 Apr 1599 [M.A., on resignation of John Hudleston, S.T.P.; Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge]
- Nicholas Craven - 7 Aug 1600 [M.A., on resignation of Humphrey Totnam; Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge]
- John Auldcrofte - 1610
- Isaac Craven - 24 Jan 1626 [M.A., on death of last incumbent]
- Thomas Asheton - 2 Dec 1633 [M.A.]
- Richard Holden - 8 Mar 1634 [M.A., buried 15 Mar 1681; will dated 14 Oct 1680, proved 9 May 1682]
- Samuel Weed - 27 Jun 1676 [B.A.; on cessation of Richard Holden; born at Doddington]
- John Bolton
- Abraham Bayly - 12 Dec 1707 [to Felmersham Vicarage with Paven ham Chapel, vacant; Patron, King & Queen by lapse]
- Thomas Bowber - 16 Jan 1712 [M.A.; on cessation of Abraham Bayly. Buried 11 Apr 1732]
- John Gamble - 3 Oct 1732 [L.L.B., Trinity Hall, Cambridge; on death of Thomas Bobart]
- Michael Firth - 30 May 1733 [B.A., Trinity College, Cambridge; on cessation of John Gamble]
- John Hutchinson - 1 Jan 1756 [M.A.; Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1744; on death of Michael Firth]
- Thomas Watson Ward - 15 Nov 1792 [M.A., on death of John Hutchinson . He married at St. John's, Westminster, 20 Dec 1792, Ann, eldest daughter of Charles and Mary Tafnell and secondly at St. Margarets, on 21 Aug 1798 Mary Grant, spinster, formerly an usher of Westminister School. Died at Sharnbrook 30 May 1825]
- William Henry Greene - 12 Nov 1825 [B.A., M.A., St. john's College, Cambridge, 1828; on death of Thomas Watson Ward]
- Henry Davis Ward - 13 Dec 1827 [B.A., M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge, 1828, on resignation of William Henry Greene. Died at Exmouth on 19 Apr 1846; Anne his wife died 24 Apr 1837; Thomas Watson Ward, their son, died 6 Mar 1836]
- Fielding Palmer - 19 Aug 1846 [M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge, 1842, on death of Henry Davis Ward. Resigned 8 Apr 1867]
N.B. After 1858 the Incumbents are vicars of Felmersham only, Pavenham having been consistuted a separate benefice in that year. Died at Chepstowe 16 Apr 1897 aged 80]
- Richard Rawle - 1867 [M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge, 1838, third wrangler and fourth in the First Classical Tripos.; Rector of Cheadle, Staffs., 1839-47; Principal of Codrington College, Barbados, 1847-64; Vicar of Tamworth, Staffs., 1869, appointed Bishop of Trinidad in the West Indies, 1872]
- Edmund Wodley Ashfield - 11 Feb 1869 [M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge, on cessation of Richard Rawle; Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge]
- Francia Felix Mazuchelli - Nov 1890
- William Mathers Lethbridge - Feb 1896
- Bruce Cumming - Dec 1903
- L.R. Levitt - Apr 1917
- Sheldon Robert Hart - Jan 1921
- Charles Edward Meadows - Oct 1922
- Edward Fisher - Jan 1931
- Albert Lewis Martin - Jun 1938
- George Sidebottom - 1960
- Douglas Eric Claypole White - 1987
- David Mason - 1998
NOTE:
D = "Dominus" meaning Lord;
M = "Magister" meaning Master