Archdeacon of Wilts

History

List of archdeacons

High Medieval

• bef. 1139–1139: Azo
• bef. 1139–aft. 1157: Roger of Ramsbury
• bef. 1161–1164: Reginald Fitz Jocelin
• bef. 1173–aft. 1173: William
• bef. 1179–aft. 1189: Richard of Wilton
• 1193: Humphrey of Bassingbourn or de Bassingeburn
• 1193–1198 : William of Sainte-Mère-Église
• bef. 1199–aft. 1222: Richard Grosseteste
• bef. 1223–aft. 1223: William de Merston
• bef. 1226–aft. 1246: Stephen of Tisbury
• bef. 1246–1247 : Roger of Buscot
• 1247–aft. 1257: Nicholas of York
• bef. 1258–aft. 1271: Roger de la Grene
• bef. 1275–aft. 1279: Henry Brandeston
• bef. 1283–bef. 1284: Ralph of Leicester
• bef. 1284–aft. 1287: Ralph le Waleys of Brightwell
• aft. 1288–aft. 1296: William of Abingdon
• bef. 1299–1303 : Richard de Sotwell

  Late Medieval

• ?–1304 : Thomas of Savoy
• 25 January 1304–bef. 1320 : William de Chaddleshunt
• bef. 1321–bef. 1326 : Gerald de Tilheto
• 12 March–March 1326 : Iswin de Gandavo
• March 1326 : Robert de Baldock senior
• 27 March 1326 – 1331 : Robert de Ayleston
• 8 August 1331–aft. 1333: Ralph de Querendon
• 10 January 1333 – 30 June 1343 : John de Whitchurch
• 30 June 1343–bef. 1361 : John Barne
• 26–27 December 1361 : John Lineden
• 27 December 1361–aft. 1379: John Silvestre or Codeford
• 1388–bef. 1407 : Nicholas Wykeham
• 17 March–21 April 1407 : William Magot
• 21 April 1407–March 1419: John Chitterne
• 1419–bef. 1423 : John Gaunstede
• 13 October 1423 – 1449 : John Symondesburgh
• 14 August 1449 – 1452 : John Chadworth
• 8 November 1452–aft. 1454: Marinus Ursinus
• 27 March 1457–bef. 1464 : Vincent Clement
• 10 October 1464 – 1478 : Peter Courtenay
• 1 February 1479–aft. 1485: Hugh Pavy
• bef. 1488–bef. 1522 : Christopher Urswick, Dean of York until 1494, Dean of Windsor and Rector of Hackney from 1502, Archdeacon of Norfolk and Archdeacon of Oxford )
• 12 May 1522–bef. 1539 : Edward Finch
• 15 January 1539–bef. 1554 : John Pollard

  Early modern

• 1554–bef. 1564 : John Lawrence
• 1564–aft. 1577: Giles Lawrence
• 1577–10 March 1590 : John Sprint
• 1590–7 February 1610 : Edmund Lilly, Master of Balliol
• 7 March 1610–bef. 1614 : Walter Benet
• 15 November 1614–bef. 1646 : Thomas Leche
• 1646–1663: vacant
• 6 July 1660 – 19 July 1663 : William Creed, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford
• 1 August 1663 – 15 December 1674 : Thomas Henchman
• 4 February 1675 – 1681 : Seth Ward
• 15 November 1681 – 1687 : Robert Woodward
• 19 January 1687 – 20 March 1696 : Thomas Ward
• 9 April 1696 – 12 April 1720 : Cornelius Yate
• 26 April 1720 – 1735 : Thomas Rundle
• 18 July 1735 – 2 January 1763 : Henry Stebbing
• 20 January 1763–bef. 1768 : Charles Weston
• 22 September 1768–bef. 1779 : Richard Brickenden
• 5 March 1779–February 1799 : Arthur Coham
• 9 March 1799 – 5 May 1804 : William Douglas
• 9 May 1804 – 8 June 1828 : William Coxe
• 14 June 1828 – 24 June 1862 : William Macdonald

  Late modern

• 1862–1863: Henry Drury
• 1863–1868: Charles Harris
• 1868–1874: Thomas Stanton
• 1874–1911 : Thomas Buchanan, Vicar of Potterne until 1891, then Rector of Poulshot, until 1905
• 1911–1912 : Frederic Wallis
• 1912–1927 : Eric Bodington
• 1927–1951 : Joseph Coulter, Vicar of Calne
• 1951–1974 : Cecil Plaxton, Rector of Pewsey until 1965
• 1974–1980 : John Neale, Bishop suffragan of Ramsbury
• 1980–1998 : John Smith, Vicar of Bishops Cannings, All Cannings and Etchilhampton until 1983; Team Vicar, Redhorn from 1990
• 1998–2004 : Barney Hopkinson
• 2004–2012 : John Wraw
• 2012–2013: Alan Jeans, Archdeacon of Sarum
• 28 January 2013–September 2015: Ruth Worsley
• 22 February 2016–present: Sue Groom