List of Archdeacons of Surrey
Encyclopedia
This is a list of archdeacon
s of Surrey, a post historically in the diocese of Winchester
, now in the diocese of Guildford
, England.
Archdeacon
An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in Anglicanism, Syrian Malabar Nasrani, Chaldean Catholic, and some other Christian denominations, above that of most clergy and below a bishop. In the High Middle Ages it was the most senior diocesan position below a bishop in the Roman Catholic Church...
s of Surrey, a post historically in the diocese of Winchester
Diocese of Winchester
The Diocese of Winchester forms part of the Province of Canterbury of the Church of England.Founded in 676, it is one of the oldest and largest of the dioceses in England.The area of the diocese incorporates:...
, now in the diocese of Guildford
Diocese of Guildford
The Diocese of Guildford is a Church of England diocese based in Guildford, covering most of Surrey and part of Hampshire. The cathedral is Guildford Cathedral and the bishop is the Bishop of Guildford. It is part of the Province of Canterbury....
, England.
- Walter BranscombeWalter BranscombeWalter Branscombe was Bishop of Exeter from 1258 to 1280.-Life:...
- 1410-1414 John Catterick
- William SmythWilliam SmythWilliam Smyth was Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield from 1493 to 1496 and then Bishop of Lincoln until his death. He held political offices, the most important being Lord President of the Council of Wales and the Marches. He became very wealthy and was a benefactor of a number of institutions...
- 1482-1500 Oliver Dynham
- 1500-? Christopher Bainbridge
- Matthew Long
- John Fox ?-1519
- 1519-1521 William RokebyWilliam RokebyWilliam Rokeby was a leading statesman and cleric in early sixteenth-century Ireland, who held the offices of Bishop of Meath, Archbishop of Dublin and Lord Chancellor of Ireland...
- 1522-1530 John Stockeslie
- 1530-1531 Edward Lee
- 1531-1555 Thomas Baghe
- -1569 Edmund Mervin
- -1572 John WatsonJohn Watson (Bishop)-Life:He was born in Evesham, Worcestershire England, the son of Thomas Watson and Agnes nee Weeks. Thomas Watson was born in Evesham around 1491 and in 1544 purchased part of the former Evesham Abbey lands and the lordship of Bengeworth, across the River Avon from Evesham town. On those lands he...
- -1574 Valentine Day (Valentine DaleValentine Dale-Life:He supplicated the university of Oxford in 1541 for the degree of B.A., but does not appear to have been admitted. He was, however, elected a fellow of All Souls' College in 1542...
) - 1574-1580 William WickhamWilliam Wickham (bishop)-Life:He was educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge, where he was a Fellow in 1559, and M.A. 1564. He was a fellow of Eton in 1568, and vice-provost there around c. 1570...
- -1605 James Cottington
- 1605-1616 Arthur Lake
- 1617-1649 George HakewillGeorge HakewillGeorge Hakewill was an English clergyman and author.-Early life:Born in Exeter, he studied at Alban Hall, Oxford, where he was a noted disputant and orator and in June 1596, only a year after his matriculation and at the unusually early age of 18, he was elected a fellow of Exeter College. There...
- 1649 to 1660, the archdeaconry was vacant
- 1660-1686? John Pearson
- 1686-1689 Richard Oliver
- 1689-1710 Thomas Sayer
- 1710-1716 Edmund GibsonEdmund GibsonEdmund Gibson was a British divine and jurist.-Early life and career:He was born in Bampton, Westmorland. In 1686 he was entered a scholar at Queen's College, Oxford...
- 1716-1719 Hugh BoulterHugh BoulterHugh Boulter was the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh, the Primate of All Ireland, from 1724 until his death. He also served as the chaplain to George I from 1719.-Background and education:...
- 1719-1725 Samuel Billingsley
- 1725-1753 Richard Furney
- 1753-1760 Thomas Thackeray.
- 170-1766 Thomas Ridding
- 1766-1769 Newton Ogle
- 1769-1782 John ButlerJohn Butler (bishop)-Life:He was born at Hamburg. As a young man he was a tutor in the family of Mr Child, a banker. He was not a member of either Cambridge or Oxford University, but in later life he received the degree of LL.D...
- 1782-1814 John Carver
- -1839 Thomas de Grey
- 1839- Samuel WilberforceSamuel WilberforceSamuel Wilberforce was an English bishop in the Church of England, third son of William Wilberforce. Known as "Soapy Sam", Wilberforce was one of the greatest public speakers of his time and place...
- 1845-1847 William DealtryWilliam DealtryWilliam Dealtry was an English clergyman of evangelical views, who became archdeacon of Surrey and a Fellow of the Royal Society.-Life:...
- 1847 Joseph Cotton WigramJoseph Cotton WigramJoseph Cotton Wigram was a British churchman, archdeacon of Surrey, archdeacon of Winchester and bishop of Rochester.-Life:...
- John Sutton UttertonJohn Sutton UttertonJohn Sutton Utterton was the first Suffragan Bishop of Guildford in the last third of the 19th century.Born in 1814 and educated at Oriel College, Oxford, he was perpetual curate of Holmwood, rector of Calbourne and then the Archdeacon of Surrey before his ordination to the episcopate. He died on...
- Paul Everard BarberPaul Everard BarberPaul Everard Barber was the inaugural Bishop of Brixworth. He was born on 16 September 1935 and educated at Sherborne School and St John’s College, Oxford. Ordained Deacon in 1960 and Priest in 1961, after a Curacy at St Francis, Westborough he served as Vicar of Camberley with Yorktown before...
- 1989-1996 John Stewart WentJohn Stewart WentJohn Stewart Went is the Anglican Bishop of Tewkesbury .He was educated at Colchester Royal Grammar School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Went married Rosemary Dunn in 1968 before embarking on a clerical career with a curacy in Northwood, London followed by an incumbency at Margate...
- 9 October 2005–present Stuart Beake
Further reading
- A. L. Browne, 'The early archdeacons of Surrey', Surrey Archaeol. Collections xlvi (1938) 68-97.
- Brian Taylor (1992) The Archdeacons of Surrey: A Provisional Prosopography