Rectors of the Pulhams and Starston

from 1253 to 1997

The list of Rectors of Pulham St Mary is reproduced from the Parochial Church Council's guide booklet, which is on sale in the church. Editorial changes and additions are shown thus [...].

LIST OF RECTORS

Pulham St. Mary the Virgin	Pulham St. Mary Magdelene	Starston St Margaret's
1253 Henry de Wengham Bishop of London Chancellor of England. 1301 Sir Simon de Walpole. Interred in chancel. 1331 John de Colby 1339 John de Hewarstock 1341 Michael de Northburgh, Archdeacon of Suffolk; Bishop of London in 1354 1351 William de Kellesey 1357 William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester 1367. Chancellor of England. Founder of Winchester College and New College Oxford. Supposed by some to have built the South Porch of the Church. He was made Rector of Pulham in spite of opposition from the Bishops. At one time he was Surveyor of works for Edward III (1327-77) 1361 Andrew de Stratford 1384 Thomas Haxey 1385 Peter Mighell 1385 William Holymn 1385 Roger Bacon 1390 John Metfield, Archdeacon of Ely 1407 John Ixworth. LL.B. 1412 Richard Woodfield who is buried here 1446 William Blackett 1460 Henry Sharpe 1463 Wiliam Egmerton 1465 Sir Thomas Howe. He repaired the body of the Church and the Chancel, and placed in a south window effigies of Sir John Falstaff whose Chaplain he had been. 1468 Nicholas Gay 1474 John Yotten 1512 Richard Harrison 1542 Richard Wilks. Services held in English for first time during his incumbency here. 1550 John Payne DD 1551 John Goodrich 1557 William May. (Last Rector to be nominated by Bishop of Ely) 1565 John Crane First Rector to be nominated by The Crown Elizabeth I 1585 Hugh Castleton 1615 Daniel Sayer. He was born in Pulham where he lived after [...] he had been unlawfully turned out of his benefice during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. He died in Pulham 1659, one year before the Restoration of Charles II 1660 William Starkey 1684 William Starkey son of above. Buried in Church. 1717 Nicholas Clagett, Bishop of St. David's 1731 and Bishop of Rochester 1742. 1728 William Broome writer of poetry. A friend of the poet Alexander Pope. The Hon. Edward Townshend, Dean of Norwich cousin to Horace Walpole. 1765 Thomas Bowen. Buried at Pulham, Rector for 42 years. 1808 William Long 1835 William Leigh 1858 Richard Bond 1885 William Henry Cleaver 1895 Charles Carthew Wakefield 1917 Ernest Walter Field 1930 Edward Rhodes 1951 Charles George Kerslake 1955 Edward George Dennis 1958 Crichton John Francis Huggins 1976 Gerald Epps	[further information awaited] 1858 FW Freeman 1863 LR Henslow 1871 S Fellowes 1917 AR Buckland. Archdeacon of Norfolk 1928 RH Stacey 1945 AG Wiseman 1957 BP Luscombe 1960 FG Wood 1970 GR Epps	[further information awaited]
1980 Became the benefice of Pulham St. Mary Magdalene with St. Mary the Virgin
1980 Rev. Gerald Epps 1993 Rev Montague Ellson
1994 Became the Benefice of Pulham Market, Pulham St. Mary and Starston
1994 Rev Montague Ellson

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