List of Archdeacons of Northumberland

This is a list of archdeacons of Northumberland, a post in the diocese of Newcastle of the Church of England. Historically the archdeaconry was part of the diocese of Durham, from which the diocese of Newcastle was formed in 1882.

[edit] List of archdeacons

[edit] High Medieval

• bef. November 1174–aft. March 1195: William du Puiset
• bef. April 1197–aft. 15 February 1203: G. de Perche
• bef. 1 November 1211–May 1217: Richard Marsh (also Archdeacon of Richmond from February 1213)
• bef. 1 June 1218–aft. 11 November 1239: Alan de Lenna
• 26 July 1241: unknown archdeacon
• 5 April 1249–bef. 13 January 1254: Thomas de Anesty
• bef. 21 October 1256–bef. July 1257: Robert de Sancta Agatha
• bef. 9 October 1264–bef. 1269: Roger de Herteburn
• bef. 23 September 1271–c. 1272: Richard de Middleton
• bef. 8 November 1275–c. 1280: Thomas de Birland
• c. April 1281: William de la Corner
• bef. 24 February 1291–c. 1311: Nicholas de Welles

[edit] Late Medieval

• 4 March–December 1312 Robert Pickering
• 14 December 1312–? John de Nassington
• c. 1328 Thomas Charlton
• February 1328–1340 John Charlton
• 5 April 1340–bef. 1349 Edmund Haward
• bef. 1349–10 March 1362 William de Salopia
• 10 March–bef. September 1362 John de Bamburgh
• 10 September 1362–17 August 1369 Richard de Bernard Castle
• 17–18 August 1369 John de Kyngeston
• 19 August–26 November 1369 Thomas Duffield
• 26 November 1369–23 January 1371 William de Beverley
• 23 January 1371–? John de Derby
• c. October 1400 Cardinal Louis de Fieschi (Cardinal deacon of St Adrianus)
• November 1400–? John Repham
• ?–5 August 1405 John de Dalton
• 5 August 1405–bef. December 1409 William Morwyk
• 5 December 1409–15 August 1410 John Rickingale^[1]
• 1 February–27 April 1411 Henry Eton
• 13 October–10 December 1411 John Akum
• 10 December 1411–bef. March 1422 John Rickingale (again)
• 27 March 1422–8 November 1427 Marmaduke Lumley
• 9 November 1427–aft. 1435 Robert Burton
• bef. 1456–bef. 1493 Robert Mason

[edit] Early modern

• February 1493–bef. 1528 Ralph Scrope
• bef. March 1528–bef. 1558 Robert Davell
• 3 November 1558–25 September 1559 William Carter (deprived)
• c. 1559–bef. 1566 William King (later canon at Windsor)
• 21 August 1566–bef. 1573 Ralph Lever
• 20 October 1573–bef. 1578 Francis Bunney (or Bunny)^[1]
• 25 September 1578–17 July 1581 James Bold
• 29 October 1581–? Ralph Tunstall
• 24 October 1599–1603 William Morton
• 13 April 1604–6 August 1619 John Cradock
• 7 AUgust 1619–1620 Gabriel Clark
• 13 September 1620–1633 Francis Burgoyne
• c. February 1633–bef. 1636 Joseph Naylor
• 24 November 1636–? William Flathers
• 9 May 1638–bef. 1644 Everard Gower
• c. August 1633–12 October 1676 Isaac Basire (sequestered)^[1]
• 30 October 1676–20 April 1685 William Turner
• 5 October 1685–10 November 1722 John Morton
• 27 February 1723–15 March 1758 Thomas Sharp^[2]
• 17 August 1758–6 December 1761 Thomas Robinson
• 21 April 1762–28 April 1792 John Sharp

[edit] Late modern

• May 1792–20 April 1812 Robert Thorp
• May 1812–30 January 1826 Reynold Gideon Bouyer^[3]
• February 1826–13 March 1842 Thomas Singleton^[1]
• 9 April 1842–bef. 1853 William Forbes (or Forbes Raymond)

On 27 August 1842, an Order in Council divided the archdeaconry in two (effective that day), creating the new archdeaconry of Lindisfarne.

• 24 February 1853–17 February 1880 George Bland
• 1880-1882 Henry William Watkins
• 1882–1905 George Hamilton
• 1906–1918 James Henderson
• 1918–1931 Charles Blackett-Ord
• 1931-1939 Leslie Hunter^[1]
• 1983–1992 William Thomas
• 1992–2005 Peter Elliott
• 10 April 2005–present Geoff Miller

[edit] References

[edit] Sources

• British History Online – Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300: Archdeacons of Northumberland
• British History Online – Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300–1541: Archdeacons of Northumberland
• British History Online – Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857: Archdeacons of Northumberland