The Incumbents 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

Sir Edward Hoppay [1536-1542]
Sir Jasper Hanson [1542]
John Hall [1558-1594]
Christopher Wooler [1594-1614]
Mr Banks [1594-1614]
John Peebles [1617-1630]
John Burtonwood [1634-1647]
Rev William Ainsworth Curate [1647-1650]
William Heald [1650-1652]
Bell Bell Curate [1652-1655]
Mr Hopkins Curate [1655]
Jonathan Hopkins [1655-1657]
Mr Seddon Curate [1656-1661]
William Seddon [1659-1661]
Rev Alexander Bate Curate [1661-1673]
Rev Paul Bairstow Curate [1673-1676]
Nicholas Cudworth Curate [1676]
Thomas Walker [1676-1677]
Rev William Clifford Curate [1678-1703]
Mr Ardsley Curate [16??]
Rev Thomas Greenwood Curate [1703-1706]
Joshua Hill [1706-1739]
Rev Richard Fisher Curate [1739-1746]
Rev George Braithwaite Curate [1746-1748]
Rev Benjamin Travis Curate [1748-1750]
Rev Richard Sutcliffe [1750-1782]
Rev Robert Wilkinson Curate [1776]
George Robinson Curate [1780]
Rev Robert Wilkinson [1782-1840]
Rev William Gurney [1840-1869]
Rev William Wilkinson [1860?]
Rev George Bagot [1869]
Rev Vivian Rodwell Lennard [1883]
Rev E. King Curate [1884]
Rev Alexander James Harrison [1888]
Rev Henry Jackson Hardcastle Faulkner Curate [1890]
John Shafte Barry [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]
Roger Awdsley [c1657-1659]

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 / 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

More details can be found in the Lightcliffe Incumbents articles on the People of interest in Lightcliffe Churchyard website

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