Wollaton St Leonard

List of Incumbents

This list, derived from Lists of the clergy of central Nottinghamshire, edited by K.S.S.Train and published in the Thoroton Society Record Series Volume XV (1953), was compiled and updated by Mary and Malcolm Stacey in 2013.

It slightly simplifies the information in Train by ignoring the confusing exchanges between Roger de Wylughby and Robert de Rempston, who each had two brief spells as Rector of Wollaton and Rector of Gamston. It also simplifies the situation around the Restoration in 1660 when the incumbencies of John Heywood and Samuel Kendall are difficult to determine. In 1679 the patron was Sir Henry Barnard, though frequently quoted in Train and elsewhere as Bernard.

Wollaton is one of a diminishing number of parishes which continue to have a private patron. The unbroken line of Willoughby family patrons since 4 November 1314 makes it even more distinctive.

	Rector	Patron
1236	Elyas de Elinnechyrch	Dame Emmetine de Moretoyn
1291	Adam de Wellum	Roger de Morteyn
1339	Roger de Wylughby	Sir Richard de Wilughby
1340	Robert de Rempston	Sir Richard de Wilughby
1362	Hugh de Wilughby	Sir Richard de Wilughby
1375	John son of Richd de Willey	Matilda, Lady of Wolaton, widow of Sir Richard Wylughby
	John Hancok
1428	John Wodhowse	Hugh Willughby
1446	Richard Twigge	Hugh Willughby
1448	William Husse	Hugh Willughby
1460	Robert Netlam	Richard Willoughby
1466	Thomas Tyen or Tewe	Feoffees of Richard Willoughby
1486	Robert Ilston	Margaret Legh, formerly wife of Robert Willughby deceased
1490	William Ilkston	Margaret, now widow of Sir Peter Legh
1491	Robert Welby	Sir Henry Willughby
1496	Robert Laurence	Sir Henry Willughby
1517	Richard Smyth	Sir Henry Willughby
1544	John Rowe
1559	William Undern	Executors of Henry Willobye deceased
1564	Ralph Wheatley	Executors of Henry Willobye deceased
1564	Ralph Dickon	Executors of Henry Willoughbie during minority of Francis Willoughbie
1571	Adam Squyer or Squire	Francis Willoughbye
1576	Robert Aldriche	Sir Francis Willowbye
1616	Percival Hynde	Sir Percival Willughby in the right of his wife Bridget
1628	John Wagstaffe	Sir Percival Wyllughby in the right of his wife Bridget
1658	John Heywood
1661	Samuel Kendall	Sir Francis Willoughby
1679	George Antrobus	Sir Henry Barnard, grandfather of Sir Thomas Willoughby
1708	John Lloyd	Sir Thomas Willoughby
1720	John White	Thomas 1st Lord Middleton
1742	George Staunton Brough	Francis, 2nd Lord Middleton
1766	Isaac Pickthall	Francis, 3rd Lord Middleton
1798	George Sanders	Henry, 6th Lord Middleton
1838	Francis Hewgill	Digby, 7th Lord Middleton
1846	The Hon. Charles James Willoughby Prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral	Digby, 7th Lord Middleton
1876	Henry Charles Russell	Henry, 8th Lord Middleton
1922	John Gordon Thornton	Godfrey, 10th Lord Middleton
1935	Harry Bowman Liddell	Guy, 11th Lord Middleton
1943	Michael Faraday Giles Hon. Canon of Southwell Cathedral	Guy, 11th Lord Middleton
1964	John David Treadgold	Guy, 11th Lord Middleton
1975	John Alan Banks	Michael, 12th Lord Middleton
1984	David Walter Skyrme James Hon. Canon of Southwell Cathedral	Michael, 12th Lord Middleton
2002	Jeremy John Lepine Hon. Canon of Southwell Cathedral	Michael, 12th Lord Middleton
2013	Timothy John Pullen Hon. Canon of Coventry Cathedral	Michael, 13th Lord Middleton

In the vestry a series of portraits feature each of the ten rectors from the incumbency of Charles Willoughby in the middle of the nineteenth century.