The Vicars
of
Lightcliffe

Of the Curates at Lightcliffe, Heywood comments that

At Lightcliffe, there has been a great number of wretched drunken preachers in my time, as any I have known in any one place

This Foldout lists some of the people who have served at Saint Matthew's Church, Lightcliffe and Eastfield Chapel, Lightcliffe and Lightcliffe Old Church

John Peebles Curate [1630] Rev John Burtonwood Curate [1634-1647] Rev William Ainsworth Curate [1647-1650] Nicholas Cudworth Curate [1648] John Bell Curate [1652-1655] William Heald [1654] Mr Hopkins Curate [1655] Mr Seddon Curate [1656-1661] Rev Alexander Bate Curate [1661-1673] Rev Paul Bairstow Curate [1673-1677] Rev William Clifford Curate [1678, 1700] Mr Ardsley Curate [16??] Rev Thomas Greenwood Curate [1703-1706] Joshua Hill [1706] Rev Richard Fisher Curate [1739-1746] Rev Benjamin Travis Curate [1749] Rev Richard Sutcliffe [1752, 1782] Rev Robert Wilkinson [1776, 1782, 1833] George Robinson Curate [1780] Rev William Gurney [1840] Rev William Wilkinson [1860?] Rev George Bagot [1869] Rev Vivian Rodwell Lennard [1883] Rev E. King Curate [1884] Rev Alexander James Harrison [1888] John Shafte Barry [1890] Rev Henry Jackson Hardcastle Faulkner Curate [1890] Rev John Berry Curate [1891] Rev Nathaniel Lindon Parkyn [1894] Rev James Robert Hill [1897] Rev John Thomson Levens Curate [1899] Rev Horace Francis Wonnacott Curate [1899] Rev Henry Alexander Kennedy [1903] Rev Richard Piers Whittington [1907] Rev Alban Bodley Mace Curate [1910] Rev Charles Lacy Hulbert [1913] Rev Harold Lancaster Taylor [1914-1953] Rev Francis E. Westmacott Curate [1936] Rev Reginald Douglas Cyprian Rabbetts Curate [1938-1943] Rev Johan Launcelot Baillie Curate [1947] Rev C. F. Goodchild Curate [1948] Rev G. S. Wilby Curate [1954] Rev W. D. Lewis Curate [1955] Rev Frank White [1955-1972] Rev Ian C. Knox Curate [1959] Rev Brian Abell Curate [1963] Rev John David Nowell Curate [1971] Rev David Wilding [1979] Rev Robert Cooper [19??-2006] Rev Peter Sutcliffe [2006]

In some cases, the date(s) shown here for the Vicar are approximate and refer to a year in which he was recorded as being in office.

References to the Incumbent often use the words Curate, Minister, Pastor, Perpetual Curate, Priest, or Rector where – for convenience – I have used the word Vicar

Please email me if you can add any further names, dates or other details to the information on this Page, or if you spot any errors

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