The Rectors of Peldon

c1202 Miles Folet     Resigned on becoming a monk
c1202 Robert Folet     Presented by Richard de Peltindone
c1212 Willelmus     'Presbyter de Peltyngdon'
1323 Robert     'Rector of Peltyngdon'
1348 Edmund White     Year of the Black Death
1380 Bernard Exton
1384 William de Aketon, M.A., M.D.
1390 Ralph Pynsthorp de Henham
1405 John Ungot
1415 John Bryan
1440 John Saxy
1442 John Stanesby
1466 Robert Fawkes     Presented by Margaret Tey
1496 Thomas Metcalfe, M.A.
1504 John Alyn     also Vicar of Little Stambridge
1518 Robert Foxley
1523 Edward Danyell, M.A.     Deprived by Queen Mary
1554 Edward Ryly, M.A.     Instituted by Bishop Bonner
1559 Edward Danyell, M.A.     Restored by Queen Elizabeth
1569 William Tey, M.A.     Ardent Presbyterian
1594 Hugo Branham, M.A. B.D.
1615 Richard Ram, M.A.     Presented by Thomas, Lord Darcy
1640 John Cornelius M.A., D.D.     Sequestered in 1644 Civil War
1644 Francis Onge, B.A.     A convinced Puritan
1660 John Cornelius, M.A. D.D.     Restored under Charles II
1662 Francis Onge, B.A.     Again: as conformed under act of Uniformity
1667 Jonahtan Saunders     Presented by Samuel Reynolds
1674 John Angier, M.A.     Also Rector of Inworth

1690 Nathaniel Ashwell, M.A.     Presented by the Bishop of London
1725 Alexander Vievar, LL.B.     Presented by George Brooke
1744 Edward Townshend, M.A.     Later Dean of Norwich
1746 John Wyatt, M.A.     Presented by Miss Catherine Daye
1749 Thomas How     Buried at Peldon 8 Dec 1755
1756 Richard Harvey B.A.
1757 Samuel Herring M.A.
1761 Harry Hankey, M.A.
1782 Jehoshaphat Mountain M.A. D.D.
1817 John Palmer M.A.     Chaplain to Earl of Ilchester
1851 Wiliam S.H. Braham Meadows M.A.
1855 Christopher Robert Harrison B.C.L.
1867 Carter Hall M.A.     Rector at the time of the 1884 Essex Earthquake
1895 David Lindsay Johnson M.A.
1911 Edgar George Bowring M.A.
1931 Alfred Albert Giles M.A.
1939 John Robert Wilson BA, L.TH.
1948 Walter Asbury Smith A.C.T. Th. L.
1949 Roy Gumley Adnett     New chancel built 1953
1955 Eric Kenneth Green
1958 John Penrose B.A.
1964 Anthony Walter Gough Dip. Th.
1971 John Carpenter M.A.
1974 James Edward Seddon L. TH.
1981 Edward Charles Lendon M.A.

From 'The Rectors of peldon' compiled by the Revd. A.W. Gough 1970
Calligraphy by T.B. Millatt

Date: 3 February 2022