List of Tingrith Rectors

Advowson

Volume III of the Victoria County History was published in 1912, it notes that the earliest mention of advowson was in the 13th century. The right of presentation to Tingrith Church appears to have been attached to the manor held in this parish of Lord Moleyns. The Abbess of Elstow claimed the advowson in the early part of the 13th century, but did not succeed in substantiating her title, and in 1320 the lord of Tingrith Manor exercised the patronage of the church, which follows the same descent as the manor till 1642. At this date it was alienated by the Earl of Cleveland to William Ashton, lord of Dixwells Manor in the same parish, with which manor it descended until 1724, when Sir Charles Buck presented. Between this date and 1742 it was transferred to David Willaume, and has since followed the descent of Tingrith Manor (q.v.). The living, which is a rectory, was worth £9 at the Dissolution.

At the dissolution of the chantries Tingrith Church was endowed with the farm of an acre of land, valued at 6d., to maintain an obit at the feast of the Annunciation and Michaelmas.

A light in the church was endowed with land of the yearly value of 10d., and the stock of money in hand for both these endowments was declared to be 9s. 4d.

List of Rectors

• Nicholas de Tingrith [1215-1220 [capellanus; patron Nicholas de Tyngrie];
• Gilbert - 1225 [capellanus; patron Nicholas de Tyngrie];
• Thomas de Flittewyke - 23 Dec 1274 [subdeacon; patron Peter de Tingrye; on death of Gilbert];
• M.Thomas de Tyngre;
• John Maleherbe - 27 Mar 1297 [priest; on death of M.Thomas de Tyngre];
• Richard de Overton - 7 Oct 1332 [priest; patron John Pecok, Lord of Tingrith; on death of D.John Malherbe];
• William de Hedyngham - 11 Apr 1335 [priest; on death of D.Richard de Overton];
• John, son of Roger Pecok - 2 Oct 1336 [of Redbourne [Hertfordshire], clerk; on death of D.William de Hedyngham];
• Robert de Scufton;
• Roger de Goldyngton - 11 Jul 1352 [priest; on resignation of Robert de Scufton, exchanged to Haynes; patron John Pecok];
• D.Henry;
• Thomas Boger or Boyer - 14 Apr 1362 [of Maulden; priest; on resignation of D.Henry; patron John Pecok of Wyndrygg];
• John atte Croft - 27 Jun 1372 [on resignation of D.Thomas Roger, exchanged to Milton Prebendal];
• John Laurence - 17 Mar 1378 [priest; on death of D.John atte Croft; patron Robert Dykeswell];
• William Reve - 11 Jun 1406 [capellanus; vacant; patrons Nicholas Bubwyth, clerk, Sir Gerard Braybrok, Thomas Pever, Nicholas Bradschawe, John Stukle and John Hervy];
• Ralph Lambedon - 9 Dec 1414 [Vicar of Upavon [Wiltshire], on exchange with William Reve; patron Thomas Peyvr];
• D.Nicholas Sawyer - 30 May 1416 [Rector of Kilve [Somerset] on exchange with Ralph Lambedon; patron Thomas Peyvere, domicellus];
• D.Henry More - 20 Nov 1417 [Rector of Westarry, diocese of Llandaff on exchange with Nicholas Sawyer; patron Thomas Pever, esquire];
• D.Thomas Hill - 26 May 1424 [Rector of Halfhamston, diocese of London on exchange with D.Henry More; patron John Brokkele, Lord of the Manor of Tingrith];
• D.Robert Brygg;
• John Benyngton - 14 Oct 1445 [priest; on resignation of D.Robert Brygg, exchanged to Rectory of Bultham; patron Katherine, relict of John Brokle, citizen and pannarius of London];
• John Hare - 2 Dec 1447 [priest; on resignation of D.John; patron Nicholas Wysold, alderman of London and Katherine, his wife, relict of John Brokeley, alderman of London];
• D.Roger Hun - 22 Aug 1454 [priest; on resignation of D.John Hare, exchanged to Rectory of Cockayne Hatley];
• D.John Brook - 18 Jul 1466 [priest; on death of D.Roger Unne; patron John Broughton, esquire];
• John Smyth;
• D.John More - 11 Jan 1475 [on resignation of D.John Smyth];
• D.Roger Mortemer;
• D.William Laten - 4 Aug 1484 [priest; on death of D.Roger Mortemer]; 
• D.Oliver Lylly - 8 Mar 1489 [on death of D.William Laton; patrons John Butler, William Hartewell, John Raynes, Richard Godfrey, esquires and John Gyrton, clerk, feoffees of John Broughton, deceased, late Lord of the Manor of Tingrith];
• D.Edmund Lynney; 
• D.Peter Dent - 1520s;
• D.Patrick Leynton - 8 Dec 1529 [capellanus; on resignation of D.Edmund Lynney; patron Anna Broughton, daughter and heir of John Broughton, esquire, deceased; pension of iv marks];
• Richard Robson - 1 Feb 1552;
• John Pyrrin - 24 Oct 1555 [clerk; on death of Richard Robson, clerk; patron Sir Thomas Cheyne];
• Thomas Johns - 27 Jul 1560 [clerk; on death of John Pyrrin; patron Anne Cheyney, widow of Sir Thomas Cheyney of Toddington; resigned 10 Jun 1572];
• Abraham Hartwell - 28 Jun 1572 [on death of Thomas Jones];
• Nicholas Eccleston - 18 Dec 1572;
• Paul Gother - 24 Jan 1576 [parson; will dated 9 Jun 1600, proved 29 Oct 1600; on resignation of Nicholas Eccleston];
• Humphrey Hill MA - 7 Nov 1601 [on death of last Rector; patron Lady Jane Cheyney, widow; will dated 1 Feb, proved 27 Feb 1637; to be buried in chancel];
• William Witton - 31 Mar 1638 [sequestered 17 Sep 1646];
• Alexander Nesbitt - 17 Jun 1652 [buried 14 Sep 1691];
• William Walker BA - 18 Jan 1691 [clerk; ordained priest 22 Jun 1690; on death of Alexander Nesbitt, clerk; patron Sir William Buck, bart; value 9];
• John Norvell AM - 18 Jul 1706 [on death of William Walker; value 9];
• (William Barlow - 2 Jul 1708 [licenced curate]);
• John Matthews AM - 20 Dec 1720 [on cession of John Norvell; patron Sir Charles Buck, bart];
• William Hore AM - 28 Apr 1724 [on resignation of John Matthews; instituted Rector of Bow Brickhill [Buckinghamshire] on 10 Jan 1722; died 2 Mar 1742; buried at Tingrith];
• Christopher Preston AM - 18 May 1742 [on death of William Hore; patron David Willaume, esquire];
• Thomas Tanqueray BA - 5 Jun 1748 [Christ's College, Oxford; ordained deacon to cure of Tingrith; instituted Rector 20 Jul 1750, on resignation of Christopher Preston; also Rector of Bow Brickhill];
• Edward Willaume MA - 10 Mar 1783 [on death of Thomas Tanqueray; patron himself];
• Edward Tanqueray - 9 Apr 1788 [clerk; on death of Edward Willaume; patron Stephen Eaton, Rector of St.Anne's, Westminster];
• Edward Tanqueray LLB - 6 Feb 1817 [on cession of Edward Tanqueray; patron Robert Trevor, esquire];
• Truman Tanqueray MA - 27 Jan 1847 [on death of Edward Tanqueray; patrons Mary, Elizabeth, Jane and Catherine Trevor all of Tingrith, spinsters; died 28 Aug 1899, aged 78];
• Thomas Lingard Green - Dec 1899;
• Arthur Murray Dale - Jun 1902;
• Henry Edwin Robinson - Sep 1915; 
• Edward Llunworth Jones Roberts - Jul 1936;
• Alfred Samuel Wright - 1956
• David Baron Tanqueray - 1969;
• David James Woodley - 1972;
• Malcolm John Hill - 1978;
• Margaret J.Bettis - 1994

NOTE: D = "Dominus" meaning Lord; M = "Magister" meaning Master