Reference
Fasti/6/1
Title
ARCHDEACONS OF BEDFORD
Osbert - c.1078 [instituted by Bishop Remigius];
- Ralf - c.1105;
- Hugh - occurs c.1130;
- Nicholas - occurs 1145 and 1172;
- Lawrence - occurs 1181 and 1188;
- Geoffrey - occurs 1203;
- Alexander - occurs 1217;
- John Octon - 1218 [on death of Alexander; occurs 1225];
- John Houghton - occurs 1228 [became Archdeacon of Northampton in 1231; probably the same man as John Octon];
- Almaric de Buggeden - 1231; occurs 1244;
- John de Diham - occurs 1247 and 1253;
- John de Crakehale - occurs 1255 [died 1260];
- Peter de Aldeham or Audham - occurs 1261 [died 1269; precentor 1250];
- John de Maydestun - occurs 1271 [Archdeacon of Oxford in 1273; Dean of Lincoln in 1275];
- Nicholas - occurs 1279;
- Richard de Bradewell - occurs 1280 [died 1282];
- John Hook - occurs 1282 [died 1291 when also Prebend of Liddington];
- Roger de Rowell - collated 1291/2 [died c.1327; Prebend of Welton Ayval under Archdeacon];
- Edmund of London - appointed 1319/20; occurs 1327, 1329;
- John Daubeny LLD - collated 1333 [on death of Edmund];
- Philip Daubeny - occurs 10 Sep 1333, 1342 and 1357;
- Thomas de Cumpton - admitted 1351 [by exchange for the church of Clifton; occurs 1366];
- John de Irthlingburgh - occurs 1373;
- Thomas Stowe LLD - [commissary of Bishop of London 1385; ratified by patent 1388; died Prebend of Sancta Crucis (Spaldwick, Huntingdonshire] 1405; probably same man as was Prebend of Mapesbury 1390; collated Archdeacon of London 1396 and Dean of London in 1400];
- William Aughton - admitted 1405 [on death of Thomas Stowe; will dated 1422/3, proved 1423];
- Richard Caudray - collated 1423 [on death of William Aughton; resigned 1431 for Archdeaconry of Lincoln; probably, successively, Prebend of Bedford Major, Aylesbury and Corringham; apparently a namesake and contemporary of Archdeacon of Norwich];
- William Derby - collated 1431 [died 1438];
- Robert Thornton LLD - collated 1438/9 [died 1450];
- Thomas Salisbury - installed 1450 [died 1460; Prebend of Bedford Major 1446/7, Lafford 1459];
- John Radyng - collated 1460 [Archdeacon of Northampton 1468; Prebend of North Kelsey?];
- John Collynson - collated 1468 [Archdeacon of Northampton 1471; Prebend of Louth 1454/5; Archdeacon of Stow 1460];
- Henry Sharpe LLD - collated 1489 [Prebend of Milton Manor 1474; died 1489];
- Thomas Hutton - collated 1489 [Prebend of Langford Manor 1474 and Brampton 1488; Archdeacon of Huntingdon 1493/4; Archdeacon of Lincoln 1494];
- William Cosyn - collated 1493/4; occurs 1501;
- John Chambre or Chambers MD - collated 1524/5 [died 1549 as Dean of St.Stephen, Westminster; prebend of Corringham 1494 and Leighton Buzzard 1509];
- Gilbert Bourne STP - instituted 1549 [Bishop of Bath & Wells 1554];
- John Pope LLB - installed 1554 [died 1558; Chancellor of Lincoln 1543; Prebend of Welton Payshall 1540 and Leighton Buzzard 1554];
- Michael Dunning LLD - installed 1558 [deprived 1558; Vicar General and Officer in Norwich Diocese 1554; Prebend of Stow Longa 1557];
- Richard Barber LLB - installed 1558/9 [Archdeacon of Leicester 1560; Prebend of Liddington 1552];
- William Todde - collated 1560 [Prebend of Ketton 1560; died 1574];
- John Robinson STP - installed 1574 [Prebend of Welton Beckhall 1573, of Castor 1574 and Leicester, St.Margaret 1580; precentor 1572; died 1598];
- Roger Parker STB - collated 1598/9 [Prebend of Heydour 1597, of Castor 1598; precentor 1597/8; Dean 1613; died 1629];
- George Eland STB - collated 1599/1600 [Prebend of Gretton, then Leicester, St.Margaret, then Stoke; Chancellor of Lincoln 1605/6; died 1631];
- John Hacket STP - collated 1631 [Bishop of Coventry & Lichfield 1661; Prebend of Aylesbury 1623 and Mora [London Diocese] 1642; died 1670];
- Francis Willford STP - installed 1662 [Dean of Ely; died 1667];
- Theophilus Dillingham - collated 1667 [died 1678];
- John Skelton - collayed 1678/9 [Prebend of Asgarby 1683 and Biggleswade 1684; died 1704];
- Thomas Frank - instituted 1704 [Prebend of Langford Manor 1724; died 1730/1];
- John Dudley - instituted 1731 [Prebend of Aylesbury 1723];
- John Taylor - instituted 1744/5 [Prebend of Langford Ecclesia 1744 and Aylesbury 1750; Archdeacon of Buckingham 1753 and Leicester 1756];
- Charles Jenner - instituted 1756 [Prebend of Scamblesby 1753; Archdeacon of Huntingdon 1757];
- Richard Grey DD - instituted 1757;
- Hadley Cox - instituted 1771;
- William Stafford Done DD - installed 1782 [Prebend of Stow in Lindsey 1780];
- Richard Shepherd - installed 1782 [died 1809];
- Samuel Vince - collated 1809 [Prebend of Scamblesby 1803];
- Henry Kaye Bonney - collated 1821 [Prebend of Carlton 1799 and Nassington 1807; Archdeacon of Lincoln 1845];
- Henry Tattam - installed 1845;
- Henry John Rose - 1866;
- Frederick Bathurst - 1873;
- Edward Noel Hodges - 1910 [later Bishop of Bedford];
- Arthur Henry Parnell - 1924 [died 31 Dec 1935];
- Gerard Heath Lander - 1933;
- William Aubrey Robins - 1935;
- Donald Bertram Harris - 1946;
- Basil Tudor Guy - 1956;
- Basil Clark Snell - 1958;
- John Tyrell Holmes Hare - 1962 [Bishop of Bedford 1968];
- Robert Saville Brown - 1974;
- Christopher Mayfield - 1980;
- Michael Gay Bourke - 1986;
- Malcolm Leslie Lesiter - 1993
Date free text
c.1078-1993
Production date
From: 1078 To: 1993
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