List of Langford Rectors
Advowson
Volume II of The Victoria County History for Bedfordshire was published in 1908. It noted that the first mention of the advowson of Langford Church went with the Rectory manor until its sequestration in the reign of Henry VIII, when it was separated from the Rectory and retained by the crown, with whom the right of presentation now remains.
List of Langford Rectors
- 1220 – Richard
- 1235 – John de Covel
- 1239 – William de Eicle
- Thomas
- 1275 – William de Ryuere
- 1276 – John de Finlege
- 1292 – John de Scrouteley
- 1303 – John de Melles
- 1314 – William de Towesland
- Richard de Lulgrave
- 1330 – John de Petton
- Thomas Somenour
- 1343 – William Millom
- 1346 – Richard de Geynesburgh
- 1349 – John de Derebrok
- 1364 – John de Farbourne
- 1366 – Nicholas de Swynardton
- 1369 – John Lucas
- Richard Stoghton
- 1408 – Robert Fossard
- 1408 – John Barfote
- 1417 – Walter Lightgrave
- 1434 – Hugh Fissher
- 1438 – William Saycoke
- William Parker
- 1453 – John Germen
- 1464 – Oliver Dynham M.A
- 1474 – John Wylde
- 1485 – Thomas Wright
- 1496 – Edward ap William
- 1505 – Thomas Hunden
- 1518 – Roland Clarke
- 1539 – William Drey
- 1541 – William Dimbilton
- Wynche
- 1583 – Edward Noke
- 1583 – Henry Howes
- 1593 – John Frances B.A
- 1623 – Jonathan Frances M.A
- 1667 – Ralph Trattle B.A
- 1670 – Anthony Lane
- 1676 – Ellis Price
- 1695 – Michael Sheldon
- Samuel Bedford
- 1727 – Moses St Eloy
- 1745 – J Banks
- 1749 – William Pateman
- 1773 – Thomas Williams
- 1785 – George Edward Moscross
- 1838 – John Byng
- 1850 – Henry Addington
- 1871 – Christopher Cooper Ewbank B.A - 12 Apr 1871
- 1934 – Alexander Thorpe Goodrich
- 1945 – Herbert George Wise
- 1952 – John Kilday
- 1956 – John Allen Ainger
- 1961 – William John Gambrell Heffer
- 1968 – Joseph Gordon Turvey
- 1973 – Robert Harvey Nokes
- 1991 – Graham Bradshaw
- 1998 – Michael J. Proctor
Ecclesiastical Census
On Sunday 30th March 1851 a census of all churches, chapels and preaching-houses of every denomination was undertaken in England and Wales. The local results were published by Bedfordshire Historical Records Society in 1975 as Volume 54, edited by D W Bushby. The return for Langford church noted the following pieces of information:
- 70 at the morning service
- 150 at the afternoon service
- 50 Sunday scholars at the morning service
- 50 Sunday scholars at the afternoon service