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List of vicars

Here is a list of all the known vicars in Wellington which can be traced all the way back to the Domesday book.

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Resident Priest 1086 Recorded in the Domesday book

Philip de Welinton 1189-1215

Sir Thomas de Welinton 1248

Sir Thomas Lyart 1275-1285

Alexander 1296-1297

Philip de Byriton (Berrington) 1302-1329

Sir Benedict de Frodesley 1329-1349

Sir John ? 1349

John de Humphreston 1349

Hugh 1349-

John Hychecok 1366-1403

William de Sontford 1377-

John Hychcok 1385-1403

Sir Thomas Grilleshull (Grinshill) 1403-1419

William Grinshill 1419-1430

Sir Roger Lye 1454-

John Hussey 1498-1519

Alan Charlton 1535-1552

Humphrey Lightfoot 1553-

Thomas Eyton 1552-62

John Gryce 1562-1582

John Jurdayn 1582-1595

Roger Steventon 1595-1619

Francis Wright 1621-1662

William Langley 1662-1689

John Eyton 1689-1709

Henry Wood 1709-1713

Dr Robert Eyton 1713-1751

Richard Smith 1751-1773

Thomas Warter 1773-1778

Stephen Panting 1778-1782

John Rocke 1782-1803

John Eyton 1803-1822

Edward Pryce Owen 1823-1840

Benjamin Banning 1840-1880

Allen Grace 1880-1888

Henry James Alcock 1888-1897

Henry Marsh Edwards 1897-1901

James Sinclair Moore 1901-1923

John Hayes 1923-1944.

Geoffrey Carr 1944-1949

Robert Henry Makepeace 1949-1956

Marmaduke Guthrie Clark 1956-1962

Dennis C Moore 1962-1970

Brian Hindley 1971-1974

James Duxbury 1975-1985

Malcolm Emmerson Potter 1986-2006

Mark Campbell Ireland 2007-2016

Timothy S Carter 2016-present