St James, Bishampton, Worcestershire
List of Vicars, 1200-1993

Index

Taken from a list in the Church, summer 1999

year of
induction
Thomas de Pippard1200
Ivo de Pippard~
Will'us de Thorndon1290
Reginald le Porter1292
Robertus de Neuwentone1300
Robertus d'Abitot1324
Thomas de Besford1330
Galfridus de Welneford1340
Henricus de Kynewarton1355
Johannes Derlyng1361
Nicholaus Milleward1373
Thomas Yen [or Ven?]1409
Johannes Gray1436
Johannes Heyfield1437
Joh. Blake1445
Thomas Childe1455
David Chinbury1471
Johannes Ewens1489
Henricus Hunte1493
Thomas Smythe1502
Thomas Comote1537
Jacobus Low1557
Nicholas Roberts1602
Will'mus Thorneburgh1628
Edwardus Hackett1630
Samuel Phillips1634
Bartolemeus Wright1638
Thomas Brooke1663
Johannes Grove1702
Stanwix Whittingdale1735
George Barker1746
John Windle1749
David Lewis1786
Henry Southwell1820
Henry Niven1850
Thomas Wright Greenall1890
Robert Leighton Atkinson1896
Charles Litchfield Banister1897
George Gurney Coombs1905
Thomas Wilkinson1932
Arthur George Brookes1970
Frederick George Foreman1973
Eric Waterhouse1977
David Hassell1993

There is a brass plaque in the church, with the maker's mark "Jones & Willis":

To the Glory of God
and in loving memory of
Henry Niven M.A.
of St. john's College Cambridge
Vicar of this parish
from 1850 to 1890

Also a number of photographs:
1. Henry Niven 1850
2. Rev. Thomas Wright Greenall, M.A.
Headmaster of Hartlebury Grammar School 1879-1890
Vicar of Bishampton 1890-1896
Vicar of Overton, Lancaster 1898-1908
3. Robert Leighton Atkinson 1896
4. Charles Litchfield Banister 1897
5. George Gurney Coombs 1905


Last modified 25th January 2000