Vowchurch, St Bartholomew's Church
a list of Incumbents, 1560-1993

1560	Edward VAGHAN
…	… … …
1661	Thomas BOWKER[1]
1672	William CALDICOTT B.A
1678	John WOTTON
1683	William WILLIAMS
1685	Edward JONES B.A
1690	John CHELMICK[2]
1704	William SEWARD
1729	Robert LLOYD M.A
1750	Thomas WILLIAMS B.A
1785	James BULLOCK B.A
1815	William EVANS
1B31	Harry LEE B.A
1836	Beresford LOWTHER B.A
1874	Charles LONGFIELD B.A
1885	James Oliver BEVAN
1895	Skeffington Hume DODGSON M.A[3]
1910	E. A. WHITFIELD
1936	Thomas LAWRENCE (& Turnastone)
1939	J. H. GORST (& Turnastone)
1940	W. R. HANCOCK (& Turnastone)
1948	Reginald G. HAYDEN (& Turnastone)
1953	James S. de C. BENSTED (& Turnastone)
1957	John C. de la T. DAVIES (& Peterchurch, Turnastone, Dorstone)
1993	Philip WILLIAMS (& Peterchurch, Turnastone, Dorstone)

Notes:

[1]	Thomas BOWKER was instituted in 1661 to Vowchurch (as Vicar) on 13 January (patron: the Prebendary of Putson Major) and then to Turnastone (as Rector) on 5 May (patron: Humphrey Howarth, arm[iger]).
[2]	Information from the Will of John CHELMICK, 1704.
[3]	Skeffington Hume DODGSON was the younger or youngest brother of Charles Luttwidge DODGSON otherwise known as Lewis Carroll.

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