Title
HOUGHTON CONQUEST (All Saints)
Rectors
- M.Geoffrey Conquest - 22 Dec 1285 [presented in minor age , the time of Bishop Richard [Gravesend of Lincoln]; in custody of M.Walter de Stowe; now of age and instituted];
- M.Geoffrey Conquest - 15 Aug 1289 [subdeacon; patron Sir John Conquest; vacant because Geoffrey neglected to cause himself to be ordained priest within one year];
- William de Lubenham;
- Robert de Suddebrok - 16 May 1303 [clerk; to a moiety of the living on death of William de Lubenham; poresented by the Bishop, by lapse; Sir Walter de Tey, Sir Ralph Paynel and Sir Richard le Rous and Richard de Kessie in right of their wives and Elena and Johanna, daughters and heirs of D.John Maleberg of Houghton had presented differet clerks];
- Robert de Morecote - 12 Feb 1306 [capellanus; to a moiety of the living on death of Robert de Dudbrok; patrons Sir Richard le Rous and Elizabeth his wife; Sir Ralph Painel had presented Roger de Clopton, clerk, but he and Walter de Teye granted the advowsan to Sir Richard le Rous as by Royal Writ certified];
- John de la Bourn - 13 Feb 1312 [acolite; on death of M.Geoffrey; patron Sir John Conquest];
- John Speling - 1323 [of Cardington, clerk; on death of Robert de Morecot];
- William de Gayton - 12 Dec 1331 [clerk; to moiety of living on death of D.John Speling; patron Sir John de Pateshull];
- D.Simon de Northwode;
- William Conquest - 3 Oct 1337 [clerk; to moiety on resignation of D.Simon de Northwode; patron Thomas Morice, Lord of Houghton Conquest];
- Henry Balle - 1 Jul 1349 [of Aldwinkle [Northamptonshire]; priest; to moiety on death of William de Gayton; patron D.John Pygot of Podington];
- Geoffrey Burgh - 1 Jun 1366 [priest; on death of D.Henry Balle; patron Isabella Pigot, Lady of Cardington];
- John Conquest - 1392;
- John Drugge - 9 Apr 1399 [of Cardington; to moiety; vacant; patron Robert Tudenham of Creswell [Suffolk]; Commission to enquire into patronage and Commissioners (D.John Conquest, Rector of the other moiety, John Andrew, Rector of Bedford, St.Mary, William Ade, Rector of Bedford, St.Peter de Merton, Hugh Davy, Rector of Bedford, St.Peter de Dunstable, William Stoughton, Vicar of Renhold and John Teuyle, procurator of D.Richard Mildrich, Vicar of Wootton) found that the moiety was vacant by death of D.Geoffrey Burgh at Burgh next to Melton Mowbray [Leicestershire] "die Sabbi in prima septimana quadragesime ultim' predict' ut habent ex relacione fide dignosum" and that Robert Tudenham had right of presentation of the moiety and that Lady Elizabeth Pigot, late Lady of Cardington, last presented D.Geoffrey and that the presented was of good life etc. and the moiety was "porcionaria" of the Priory of Newnham and was "ad decimam ad septem marcas"];
- D.John Janyil - 18 Feb 1403 [capellanus; on death of D.John Drug; patron Sir Baldewyn Pygot];
- John Mason - 27 Jul 1409 [Vicar of Ampthill; to moiety on death of D.John Conquest; found by Inquisition to have died Friday before Feast of St.Margaret last [either 5 or 19 Jul 1409, depending on which St.Margaret was meant]; patron John Conquest of Houghton Conquest];
- D.William Stewenys;
- D.William Hoveden - 7 Oct 1451 [to moiety on death of D.William Stewenys; patron Sir Thomas Tudenham];
- D.Ralph Conquest;
- D.William [Turnbull?] - 26 Mar 1452 [Bishop of Dunkeld; on resignation of D.Ralph Conquest; patron John Conquest];
- D.John Freman - 16 May 1453 [priest; to moiety; on resignation of D.William Hovenden, exchanged to moiety of Rectory of Woodford; patron William Gedney of Cardington, esquire];
- D.John Cras - 3 Nov 1456 [priest; to moiety; on resignation of D.John Freman, exchanged to Cheshull Parva [diocese of London]; patron John Gascoygne esquire];
- D.John Dey - 2 Jun 1457 [capellanus; to moiety on resignation of William, Bishop of Dunkeld; patron John Conquest, esquire];
- D.John Tapett - 2 Jan 1461 [priest; to moiety on death of D.John Crace; patron George Gascoigne, gentleman];
- D.John Bowland;
- M.Henry Abraham - 20 Nov 1464 [to moiety on resignation of D.John Bowland; patron John, 1st Baron Wenlock by grant from Edward IV of certain landsand a fourth part of the barony of Bedford, late of Sir Thomas Tuddenham];
- D.William Stanford - 19 Dec 1465 [priest; to moiety on resignation of M.Henry Abraham; patron George Gascoyng, esquire];
- D.Thomas Dey;
- M.Thomas Yerburgh - 6 Mar 1483 [on deat of D.Thomas Dey; patron Richard Conquest, esquire];
- D.Richard Wright - 9 Apr 1489 [capellanus; to moiety on resignation of D.William Stanford; patron George Gascoigne, esquire];
- D.John Underhill - 15 Jul 1491 [priest; to moiety on resignation of M.Thomas Yerburgh; patron Richard Conquest; pension of 10 marks; also Master of Wallingford College [Berkshire]];
- M.Thomas Hunne LLB - 17 Apr 1509 [to moiety on resignation of M.John Underhill; patron William Mordaunt, guardian of Richard Conquest, son and heir of Richard Conquest; pension of 10];
- M.Humphrey Gascoigne LLB - 28 Jul 1510 [on death of M.Thomas Hunne; patron William Mordaunt; pension of 4];
- M.William Frankelyn - 3 Dec 1515 [priest; to moiety on resignation of M.Humphrey Gascoigne];
- D.Ralph Cocke - 11 Feb 1524 [capellanus; to moiety on resignation of D.Richard Wright; patron Sir Thomas Bedyngfeld; pension of 31/8];
- D.William Coven - 1 Jun 1531 [capellanus; on resignation of D.ralph Cooke; patron Sir William gascoigne; Rector of Houghton Gildable; buried 8 Oct 1549];
- D.Thomas Birde - 25 Feb 1536 [clerk; on resignation of M.William Franklyn; patron Henry VIII];
- D.John Oldestocke - 29 Sep 1542 [capellanus; to moiety on resignation of last incumbent; patron Henry VIII];
- D.William Tatenhame - 30 Jan 1549 [clerk; to Houghton Gildable; on death of William Coven, clerk; patron Johanna, widow of Edmund Conquest, esquire];
- William Walker - 19 Dec 1551 [to Houghton Gildable];
- John Holdstocke - 4 Mar 1557 [to Houghton Gildable on resignation of William Walker; buried 18 May 1568; will dated 17 May 1568; to be buried in chancel, proved at Ampthill on 18 Dec 1569];
- Peter White MA - 14 Feb 1575 [clerk; to Houghton Conquest alias Franches; patron the Bishop by lapse];
- Thomas Collens - 30 Oct 1568 [clerk; instituted both to Houghton Gildable and Houghton; on death of John Holdstocke; patron Edmund Conquest, esquire; married Joan Worsley at Wootton on 5 Dec 1575; resigned 20 Oct 1576; afterwards Rector of Milton Bryan];
- Thomas Page - 23 Oct 1576 [inducted to Rectory of Houghton Conquest; patron Richard Conquest; induected to Houghton Gildable on 27 Jan 1578; his widow Martha was buried 2 Feb 1614 at St.Nicholas, Deptford [Kent]];
- Thomas Archer MA - 9 May 1589 [inducted to both rectories; buried 20 Jan 1631; will dated 1 Nov 1630, proved 2 Mar 1631; to be buried in chancel; Chaplain to James I; born at Bury St.Edmunds [Suffolk] on 12 Aug 1554; BA at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1580, Ma 1584];
- Robert Dickson AM - 11 Mar 1590 [vacant by lapse; patron Elizabeth I; value 15/19/4];
- John Burrowe MA - 5 Aug 1627;
- Robert Grigg - 14 Feb 1631 [buried 16 Dec 1636];
- Josiah Alsoppe MA - 5 Jun 1636 [patron Charles I; to Houghton Gildable];
- Cheyne Row DD - 30 Dec 1636 ["per lapsum temporis sive per pravitatem Simonie sive ratione tithigarie Richardi Conquest armigeri patroni dicte Ecclesie hac vice spect.];
- Nicholas East;
- George Bayly - 1649 [died 24 Oct 1654; will dated 23 Sep 1654, proved 25 Jun 1655; buried 28 Oct 1654];
- Thomas Poynter;
- Edward Martyn DD - 30 Mar 1638 [sequestered in 1644];
- Samuel Lee AM - 20 May 1662 [clerk; on death of Edward Martin STP; patron Richard Conquest, esquire; to Houghton Gildable 25 May 1664; buried 4 Aug 1674; dispensation dated 8 Aug 1662 to hold with Vicarage of Chaddesley Corbett [Worcestershire]];
- Samuel Fairclough [Houghton Conquest; married Frances Folter of Ketton [Suffolk] at St.Peter's Cornhill, London on 25 Oct 1655, being then Minister of Houghton Conquest];
- Robert Beverley - 5 Jun 1674 [on death of Samuel Lee; patron Edward Atkin];
- Thomas Poynter - 19 Dec 1675 [clerk; to Houghton Guildable; vacant; patron Charles II by lapse];
- Thomas Poynter MA - 4 Apr 1676 [vacant; patron Maurice Thompson, esquire; buried 8 Oct 1700; married Mrs.Mary Chapman in 1696; will dated 18 Jan 1699, proved 26 Oct 1700];
- George Elcock MA - 20 Oct 1676 [vacant; "propter Pravitatem Simonice"; patron Charles II; ordained priest 13 Apr 1669 by Robert Skinner, Bishop of Worcester];
- William Carr [clerk; will dated 15 Feb, proved 20 Mar 1695];
- Robert Beverly - 29 Feb 1696 [inducted];
- John Stone MA - 9 Aug 1703;
- John Birch AM - 29 Oct 1706 [on death of John Stone; patron Thomas, Earl of Ailesbury and Thomas Docwra, esquire; value 26; buried 22 Jan 1724];
- Zacchary Grey LLB - 17 Mar 1724 [on death of John Burch; patron Robert Moss, Dean of Ely; editor of "Hudibras"; patron of united REctories which he sold to St.John's College, Cambridge; died at Ampthill 25 Nov 1766 aged 78; also Vicar of SS.Peter & Giles, Cambridge; born at Burniston [North Yorkshire] 6 May 1688; of Trinity Hall, Cambridge; his wife, Susanna, died 13 Feb 1771, aged 82];
- Joseph Cardale BD - 11 May 1767 [on death of Zacchary Grey; patron St.John's College, Cambridge];
- William Pearce BD - 13 Nov 1786 [on death of Joseph Cardale; patron St.John's College, Cambridge];
- John Whitehouse - 19 Dec 1790 [of St.John's College, Cambridge; ordained priest and licensed to Houghton];
- Thomas Barber BD - 11 May 1821 [on death of William Pearce DD];
- Henry John Rose BD - 16 Mar 1837 [on death of Thomas Barber];
- Edward Woodley Bowling MA - 19 Jun 1873 [on death of Henry John Rose; patron St.John's College, Cambridge];
- Herbert Walter Macklin - Sep 1897;
- Robert Kater Vintner - Dec 1914;
- Francis Aidan Hibbert - Apr 1924 [prebend];
- Geoffrey Arthur Hopkins - SEp 1926;
- George Preston Kelsall Winlaw - Jul 1931;
- Reginald Henry Goode - Apr 1946;
- William Henry Moore - 1952;
- Frank Burgess Williams - 1957;
- Martin John Banister - 1978;
- Roderick Palmer - 1990 [resigned 2001]
NOTE: D = "Dominus" meaning Lord
M = "Magister" meaning Master