VICARS of CHARD

from the year 1280.

1280 Roger, parson.

1297 Andrew, vicar of the church of Cherde.

1311 & 1333 Nicholas de Brente

1349 Thomas de Wynkton

1350-1352 Richard Moyne or Moigne

1352 Thomas Syrman

1386 in this year three names are recorded -

Thomas Myton, Robert Tyndale and John Whatcombe

1398 Robert Raygate

? -1420 RobertUfculme

1420-1424 John Alampton

1424 John Taillour or Seton

1427-1430 Thomas Hunden

1430-1464 John Govys or Govice

1464 Henry Eyrum

? -1494 Robert Hoby

1494-1508 John Strete

1535 William Pylkyngton

 

1548 John Pilkington - 'incumbent but not resident, albeit he findeth one Curate to minister there'.

1560 William Ramsey

1577-1603 John Wilson

1603-1637 Adam Abraham, of whom more is written in this book.

1637- ? William Lute - he married Phillyse Morren of Chard.

1642 William Davis

1648-1651 Thomas Lye of Chard

1659? Edward Bennet

1661 Francis Atkins

1672 Robert Collier

1681 Samuel Thomas) short histories of these vicars

1692 Daniel Ballow) are included.

1701 Christopher Chowne

1706 Henry Edwards, whose family settled in Chard for many years.

1739 John Wynne

1746 Francis Potter

1768 Thomas Stringer

1778 Thomas Champlin

1780 Thomas Alford

1805 Warre Squire Bradley, vicar of Chard and Timberscombe.

 

 

1825 William Baily Whitehead, also vicar of Chard and Timberscombe

1853 Henry Thompson

1879 William Edmund Buller

1890 William John Robinson

1907 Walter Farrer, later Archdeacon of Wells

1916 Henry John Green

1921 George Herbert Wippell Mallett

1945 John Vernon Twigg

1950 Arthur Hopley, later Archdeacon of Taunton 1962 Eric Vallance Cooke

1969 Basil Jenkyns

1987 Stephen Kivett

2004 Tony Woodward