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Church Index
Priory Index
Present Clergy
Past Clergy
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Priory Clergy - Past & Present
Priors & Incumbents of St. Bees
Priors
The evidence for the names of the Priors comes from records of appointments and occurrence of the prior's name in the charters of the priory. "Occurs" signifies when the name occurs in a document, rather than a definite date of appointment.
Cormac "Gillebecoc" |
Occurs 1120 & 1135 |
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Robert |
No Clear Date |
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Richard |
Occurs 1179 |
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William |
Occurs 1154 & 58 or 1164 & 87 |
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Waleran |
Occurs 1197 |
(Doubtful) |
Robert |
Occurs 1202 |
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John |
Occurs 1207 |
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Daniel |
Occurs 1211 |
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Ralph |
Occurs 1220 |
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Robert |
1216 |
(Possible) |
Guy |
1235 to 1245 |
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John of Lastingham |
1245 to 1254 or 56 |
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William of Rothwell |
1254 or 58 to 1282 |
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Nicholas of Langton |
1254 or 56 to 1282 |
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Absalon |
Occurs 1286 or 87 |
(Doubtful) |
William of Derby |
1286 or 88 to 1296 |
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Hugh of Compton |
1298 - 1304 |
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Alan of Ness |
1304 - 1308 |
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Stephen of Gilling |
1308 - 1316 |
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Stephen of Austwick |
1316 - 1323 |
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Thomas of Sutton |
1323/4 - 1324 |
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John |
Occurs 1330 |
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William of Sainsbury |
Occurs 1360 |
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Thomas of Brignal |
Occurs 1370, 71 |
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Thomas of Cottingham |
Occurs 1379 |
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Nicholas of Warthil |
Occurs 1387 |
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Roger Kirkby |
1417 - 1437 |
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Roger Stanley |
Occurs 1465 |
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John Ward |
Occurs 1473,1474 |
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Roger Armyn |
Occurs 1485 |
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Edmund Thornton |
Occurs 1497, ceased 1498 or 1507, also Occurs 1498 |
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Edmund Whalley |
1517 - 1521 |
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Robert Allanby |
Occurs 1523 |
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John Mathew |
Occurs 1523 |
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John Poule |
Occurs 1535 |
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Robert Paddy |
1537 to 1538 |
In office at dissolution. |
The priory was dissolved by order of Henry VIII on 16th October 1539. The monks and prior were pensioned off, and the nave only was retained in use as a parish church. The priory becomes the parish church of St. Bees.
Vicars of St Bees since the Reformation
Anthony Nicholson |
1538 - 1544 |
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James Grindall |
1544 - 1574 |
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Nicholas Lund |
Occurs 1580 |
Incumbent to 1588? |
Thomas Brownrigg |
Occurs 1588 |
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William Hardness |
Occurs 1620 |
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William Coates |
1620 - 1636 |
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Percival Radcliffe |
Occurs 1647 |
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William Lickbarrow |
Occurs 1651 |
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Peter Smith |
Occurs 1656 |
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Thomas Bolton |
Occurs 1674 |
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Richard Stainton |
167? - 1705 |
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Richard Jackson |
1705 - 1738 |
Also Headmaster, St. Bees School |
William Scott |
1738 - 1776 |
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Robert Scott |
1776 - ? |
William Scott's son |
William Harrison |
Occurs 1785 and 1816 |
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Joseph Southward |
Occurs 1789 |
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William Ainger |
1817 - 1840 |
Also Principal of St Bees Theological College |
Robert Buddicom |
1840 - 1846 |
Also Principal of St.Bees Theological College |
Richard Parkinson |
1847 - 1857 |
Also Principal of St.Bees Theological College |
William Henry Ainger |
1857 - 1871 |
Also Principal of St.Bees Theological College |
Edward Knowles |
1871 - 1896 |
Also Principal of St.Bees Theological College |
James Alexander |
1896 - 1900 |
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Richard Snape |
1900 - 1911 |
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Alfred Ainley |
1911 - 1941 |
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Everard Sampson |
1941 - 1949 |
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Charles Last |
1949 - 1953 |
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Victor Callow |
1953 - 1957 |
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Geoffrey Berwick |
1958 - 1960 |
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Bernhard Wilson |
1960 - 1971 |
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Trevor Park |
1971- 1977 |
Also Chaplain to St. Bees School |
Philip Bryan |
1977 - 2006 |
Also Chaplain to St. Bees School |
Sources
Registers of the Priory of St. Bees (ed Revd J Wilson, 1915, Surtees Society)
Supplemented for period 1220 - 1324 by "Chronicle of St. Mary's Abbey, York - (Ed H A E Craster) - compiled John M Todd
History of the Rural Deanery of Whitehaven, By Rev Ceasar Caine, Cited in "Story of a Cumberland Village" by Elizabeth Steele.
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