Saint Matthew's Church from the south-east June 2011

Luton, Saint Matthew’s was created as an ecclesiastical district of Luton, Saint Mary in 1872. It became a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1876. The following list of vicars is correct at the time of writing [2011].

• John Wood: 1876; emigrated to Canada in 1884; died 1885;
• John Hind: 1884; resigned 1885 to become secretary of The Church Pastoral Aid Society;
• Thomas Warrington: 1885;
• Francis L'Estrange Fawcett: March 1890; later Rector of Cheltenham [Gloucestershire];
• Harry Coate: June 1894; resigned 1919 to become Vicar of Sharnbrook;
• Douglas Austin Jaquet October 1919;
• Charles William James Harbridge: April 1928; resigned 1935 to become Vicar of Saint Jude, MildmayPark, London;
• Stanley Evan Bentley: 1936; formerly Vicar of Saint Philip the Evangelist, Islington [Middlesex]; resigned 1941 to become Vicar of Saint Andrew, Woodside;
• Charles John Hancock: 1941; curate at the church in 1930-33; resigned January 1952;
• Alfred Spartan Fricker: April 1952; resigned July 1960 to become Rector of Meppershall and Stondon;
• Richard Henry Eldridge: July 1961; formerly Vicar of Knotty Ash, Liverpool; resigned 1967;
• John William Miller Morgan: April 1968;
• William George Seal: 1980;
• Malcolm J. Pritchard: 1993.