Archdeacon of Wells
The Archdeacon of Wells is a senior clergy position in the Church of England Diocese of Bath and Wells. The post, having oversight over the archdeaconry of Wells in Somerset has existed since the twelfth century. The archdeaconry includes seven deaneries.High Medieval
- bef. 1086–aft. 1088: Benselin, Archdeacon of Exon
- bef. 1106–aft. 1106: Walkerius
- bef. 1106–aft. 1106: Robert
- bef. 1120–aft. 1136: Arald
- bef. 1122–bef. 1136: John de Bada
- bef. 1142–aft. 1151: Eustace
- bef. 1159–aft. 1166: Robert
- bef. 1168–aft. 1194: Thomas of Earley alias Agnellus
- bef. 1198–aft. 1199: Simon of Wells
- bef. 1204–1209 : Hugh of Wells
- bef. 1215–aft. 1231: William of Bardney
- bef. 1238–1248 : William of Bitton
- aft. 1248–bef. 1249 : John of Bitton
- bef. 1249–aft. 1254: Peter Chaceporc
- bef. 1263–1267 : William of Bitton
- 1267–1268 : Godfrey Giffard
- bef. 1269–aft. 1269: S.
- bef. 1270–1284 : Thomas Bytton
- bef. 1286–aft. 1295: Walter Haselshaw
- bef. 1295–24 January 1303 : Peter de Insula
Late Medieval
- aft. 1303–24 May 1326 : Thomas de Charlton
- 24 May–13 June 1326 : Wibert de Lutleton
- 13 June 1326–bef. 1334: Robert de Wamberg
- 29 June 1329 – 1330: Simon de Montacute
- 15 October 1330 – 1332: Thomas Upton
- bef. 1334–aft. 1336: Robert Mortimer
- bef. 1344–aft. 1344: Hugh
- bef. 1346–1352 : Thomas Fastolf
- 3 January 1353 – 12 June 1361 : William de Court
- 27 October 1361–bef. 1369 : Étienne Cardinal Aubert
- 21 February 1369 – 22 July 1376 : Simon Cardinal Langham
- bef. 1385–aft. 1388: Andrew Baret
- 1386–aft. 1391: John de Rypon
- 13 September 1388: John Beer
- 6 June 1391: Thomas Tuttebury
- 28 August 1391 – 4 May 1398 : Nicholas Slake
- 4 May 1398–bef. 1419 : John Ikelyngton
- 13 April 1419–bef. 1449 : Thomas Bubwith
- 15 April 1450 – 1 April 1470 : Andrew Holes
- bef. 1471–bef. 1473 : Thomas Bridlington
- 12 April 1473–bef. 1494 : William Nykke
- 10 July 1494 – 1500 : Richard Nykke
- 30 December 1500–bef. 1502 : :fr:François de Busleyden|François de Busleyden, Archbishop of Besançon
- 19 November 1502 – 1507 : Thomas Beaumont
- 1 January 1508 – 26 December 1546 : Polydore Vergil
Early modern
- bef. 1547–aft. 1554: Vergil still called Archdeacon of Wells
- bef. 1554–?: Cotterell already called Archdeacon of Wells
- bef. 1559–1572 : John Cotterell
- bef. 1572–bef. 1582 : John Rugge
- March 1582–?: Bartholomew Clerke
- 4 February 1589–aft. 1605: John Langworth
- 1611–aft. 1645: Gerard Wood
- 1645–bef. 1649: William Watts
- 1660–27 April 1680 : Grindal Sheafe
- 28 April 1680 – 1683 : Charles Thirlby
- 10 November 1683 – 8 October 1705 : Edwin Sandys
- 11 October 1705 – 7 March 1716 : Samuel Hill
- 4 May 1716 – 24 November 1726 : Henry Layng
- 7 December 1726 – 1 October 1739 : Edmund Archer
- 26 November 1739 – 14 November 1742 : John Wicksted
- 24 November 1742 – 20 April 1749 : George Shakerley
- 19 August 1749 – 7 November 1757 : Edmund Aubery
- 26 April 1758 – 26 February 1760 : Lionel Seaman
- 9 August 1760 – 1 October 1767 : Francis Potter
- 20 October 1767 – 12 May 1815 : William Willes
- 7 July 1815 – 5 April 1826 : Charles Sandiford
- 4 October 1826 – 1862 : Henry Law
Late modern
- 1862–?: Fitzhardinge Portman
- April 1863–24 December 1897 : Augustus Otway Fitzgerald, Rector of Charlton Mackrell until 1876, then Vicar of Brent Knoll
- March 1898–20 September 1899 : Edwin Arthur Salmon, Vicar of Brent Knoll
- 1899–1 May 1917 : Frederick Brymer, Rector of Charlton Mackrell
- 1917–19 December 1934 : Walter Farrer, Vicar of St Cuthbert's, Wells until 1919
- 1935–1940 : George Hollis, Bishop suffragan of Taunton
- 1940–1951 : Walter Norman Higgins, Rector of Mells until 1944
- 1951–1962 : Harold Bryant Salmon
- 1963–1973 : John Lance
- 1974–1982 : Peter Haynes
- 1983–1993 : Ted Thomas
- 1993–2003 : Richard Acworth
- 2003–2006: Peter Maurice
- April 200717 September 2016 : Nicola Sullivan
- 5 September 201620 May 2017: Kevin Roberts
- 20 May 2017present: Anne Gell
