Archdeacon of Stow and Lindsey

High Medieval^{[citation needed]}[]

Some of the earliest archdeacons are occasionally referred to by several variations of the title, including Archdeacon of the West Riding (of Lindsey), and of Lindsey.

• bef. 1092 – ?: ^[i]
• bef. 1133 – bef. 1134: (son of Hugh)
• bef. 1134 – aft. 1152:
• bef. 1158 – bef. 1161:
• bef. 1161 – bef. 1187:
• bef. 1187 – aft. 1200:
• bef. 1200 – aft. 1208:
• bef. 1214 – aft. 1219 (res.): William de Thornaco (became Archdeacon of Lincoln)
• bef. 1219 – bef. September 1219 (res.):
• bef. September 1219 – aft. 1222:
• bef. 1223 – 10 November 1223 (d.):
• bef. 1224 – aft. 1236:
• bef. 1239 – bef. 1240:
• bef. 1240 – aft. 1241:
• bef. 1242 – aft. 1262:
• bef. 1264 – aft. 1279:
• bef. 1280 – aft. 1285:
• bef. 1289 – aft. 1291:
• 30 December 1291 – bef. 1301 (res.):

Late Medieval^{[citation needed]}[]

• 13 January 1301 – 1301 (res.):
• 13 July 1301 – bef. 1303 (d.):
• 30 December 1303 – bef. September 1320: William Ockham (again)
• 26 January – bef. June 1320 (res.): Adam de Brome (ineffective royal grant)
• 16 June 1320 (grant): (ineffective royal grant)
• ? – bef. 1332 (res.):
• 9 January – 8 February 1332 (exch.): John Islip
• 8 February – 25 December 1332 (res.) & 1–5 January 1333 (exch.): Simon Islip
• 5 January 1333 – bef. 1334 (d.):
• 6 November 1334 – bef. 1335 (res.): or
• 19 March – 9 April 1335 (exch.):
• 9 April 1335 – bef. 1339 (d.):
• 17 February 1339 – 31 December 1346 (exch.): Henry Chaddesden
• 31 December 1346 – ?:
• ? – 1 March 1386 (exch.):
• 1 March 1386 – 7 June 1401 (d.):
• bef. 1402 – bef. 1419 (d.):
• 18 March 1419 – bef. 1427 (res.): Thomas Brouns (became Archdeacon of Berkshire)
• 8 July 1427 – bef. 1433 (res.):
• 29 May 1434 – 1442 (res.): William Lyndwood (became Bishop of St David's)
• bef. 1443 – 1448 (res.):
• ? – 1452 (d.): or
• 10 April – bef. September 1452 (res.): Lawrence Booth
• 20 September 1452 – 12 November 1454 (exch.): Edmund Booth
• 13 November 1454 – ?: William Witham
• 15 December 1460 – 1468 (res.): (became Archdeacon of Bedford)
• 7 December 1468 – 26 June 1471 (exch.):
• 26 June 1471 – 1475: Edmund Sheriffe
• 23 August 1477 – 1478 (res.): (became Archdeacon of Huntingdon)
• 14 November 1477 – 8 December 1496 (d.):
• 20 May 1497 – ?:
• 24 November 1506 – bef. 1507 (d.):
• 14 December 1507 – 9 January 1543 (d.):

Early modern^{[citation needed]}[]

• 15 January – July 1543 (res.): Anthony Draycot (became Archdeacon of Huntingdon)
• 24 August 1543 – 8 March 1553 (d.): Christopher Massingberd
• June 1553 – bef. 1554 (deprived): John Aylmer (deprived)
• 29 March 1554 – bef. 1559 (deprived): (deprived)
• 1559 – 1562 (res.): John Aylmer (restored; became Archdeacon of Lincoln)
• 1563 – bef. 1576 (d.): Roger Kelke
• 26 January 1576 – 6 March 1582 (res.): Thomas Sparke
• 7 March 1582 – 4 August 1610 (d.):
• 16 August 1610 – 6 September 1629 (d.):
• 14 September 1610 – bef. 1610: John Hills (failed installation)
• 14 September 1629 – bef. 1641 (d.):
• 14 August – 21 November 1641 (res.): James Duport
• 15 November 1641 – bef. 1677 (d.):
• 3 March 1677 – 1683 (res.): Byrom Eaton (became Archdeacon of Leicester)
• 5 September 1683 – 1684 (res.): John Gery (became Archdeacon of Buckingham)
• 4 November 1684 – 29 April 1712 (d.): John Hutton
• 22 July 1712 – 3 September 1730 (d.): Lawrence Echard
• 13 November 1730 – bef. 1751 (d.):
• 26 April 1751 – bef. 1765 (d.):
• 5 September 1765 – 15 March 1791 (d.): John Towne
• 19 March 1791 – 19 January 1808 (d.): Robert Wharton
• 11 March 1808 – 28 August 1823 (d.): Cayley Illingworth
• 29 September 1823 – 12 August 1844 (d.): Henry Bayley
• 14 September 1844 – 18 December 1862 (d.): William Stonehouse^[4]

Late modern[]

• 1863 – 5 February 1867 (d.): John Giles, Rector of Willoughby^[5]
• 1867 – 10 December 1893 (d.): Edward Trollope, Rector of Leasingham (also Bishop suffragan of Nottingham from 21 December 1877)^[6][7]
• 1894–1897 (d.): George Perry, Rector of Waddington^[8][9]
• 1897 – 14 May 1912 (d.): John Bond, Vicar of St Peter-in-Eastgate (with St Margaret, Lincoln (until 1902) then Precentor at Lincoln Cathedral (from 1902)^[10][11][12]
• 1912–1913 (res.): George Jeudwine, Rector of Harlaxton (became Archdeacon of Lincoln)^[13]
• 1913–1921 (deprived): John Wakeford, Precentor at the Cathedral (deprived)^[14][15]
• 1921–1937 (res.): Ernest Blackie, Precentor at the Cathedral (also Bishop suffragan of Grantham {1930–1935} then Bishop suffragan of Grimsby {1935–1937}; became Dean of Rochester)^[16][17]

In 1933, the Archdeaconry of Lindsey was split from Stow archdeaconry

• 1937–1951 (res.): Arthur Greaves, Bishop suffragan of Grimsby and Precentor at the Cathedral^[18]
• 1951–1954 (res.): Mervyn Armstrong, Rector of Epworth and of Wroot (became Provost of Leicester)^[19]
• 1954–1962 (ret.): Lawrence Ashcroft, Vicar of Burton-on-Stather^[20]
• 1963–1967 (res.): Michael Roy Sinker^[21]
• 1967–1975 (ret.): Sidney Harvie-Clark, Vicar of Hackthorn and Rector of Cold Hanworth (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)^[22]
• 1975–1989 (ret.): David Scott, Vicar of Hackthorn with Cold Hanworth (also Priest-in-Charge of North and South Carlton {from 1978})^[23]
• 1989–1994: Roderick Wells (became Archdeacon of Stow and Lindsey)^[24]

Archdeacons of Lindsey[]

• 1934 – 27 October 1940 (d.): Herbert Parry, Rector of Bigby^[25][26][27]
• 1941 – 8 September 1948 (d.): Nathaniel Railton, Rector of Bigby (until 1943) then of Potter Hanworth^[28][29]
• 1948 – 21 June 1960 (d.): Lisle Marsden, Vicar of Great Grimsby (until 1951) then a canon residentiary^[30][31][32]
• 1960–1971 (ret.): Clifford Jarvis, a canon residentiary (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)^[33][34]
• 1971 – 29 September 1984 (d.): Bill Dudman, a canon residentiary^[35][36][37]
• 1985–1994 (ret.): Christopher Laurence (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)^[3][38][39]

Archdeacons of Stow and Lindsey[]

• 1994–2001 (ret.): Roderick Wells (or Archdeacon of Stow and Archdeacon of Lindsey; previously Archdeacon of Stow; afterwards archdeacon emeritus)^[24]
• 2001–2006 (res.): Tim Ellis (became Bishop suffragan of Grantham)^[40]
• April 2007 – 7 September 2014 (res.):^[41] Jane Sinclair^[42]
• 10 October 2015 – present: Mark Steadman^[43][44]