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Rectors of Waddesdon

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The Rectory of Waddesdon was divided into three portions, and it was only after the death of E.W.F. Latimer in 1881, that the three portions were united.

In 1847 George Lipscomb in his "The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham" listed the following Rectors for Waddesdon:

Rectors of the First Portion of Waddesdon

12-- H. de Courtney
12-- Walter de Waddesdon
1243 Nicholas de Waddesdon
1278 Alan Mainet, or Nimet
1290 Robert Fitz Bernard
1296 Edmund Bernard
1298 William Rogale
1326 Henry de Solers
1343 John Horncastle
1350 Richard Moulshoe
1361 Henry de Southden
1366 Robert Breche
1383 Thomas Bentham
1399 Robert Shelley
1399 Edward Upton
1419 John Castell
1423 John Carbrook
1463 Robert Johnson, alias Lowson, A.M.
1465 Thomas Cuson
1467 Richard Spuret
1504 Hugh Bristow
1549 William Batherne
1554 Robert Raynolds, L.L.D.
1555-6 William Sheldon
1559 Gabriel Goodman, A.M.
1582 John Purefoy, A.M.
---- Henry Haslefoot
1605 Henry Wilkinson, B.D.
1648 Richard Bennet, A.M.
1661 John Ellis, B.D.
1682 Robert Parsons, A.M.
1714 Nathaniel Smalley
1723 Laurence Kingford, A.M.
1727 George Stephens, A.M.
1733 Pierson Lloyd, A.M.
1781 William Cole, A.B.
1789 James Burton, D.D.
1830 E.W.F. Latimer

Rectors of the Second Portion of Waddesdon

---- Walter de Barras
1220 Alexander
12-- Reginald
1261 Walter de Chikehall
1276 Anketillus, called "Dominus Forestarius"
1296 Thomas de Arches
1309 Hugh de Scales
13-- William de Wykingeston
1318 Eustachius Moton, or Motton
1361 John Shillingford
1380 William Ponton
1383 Thomas Bentham
1383 Richard Bennet
1394 Thomas atte End
1401 John Benlei
1403 John Wotten
1409 John atte Hall
1419 Nicholas Donstan
1422 Peter Bishop
14-- Richard Hervey
1447 Nicholas Buckland
1451 William Sandeland
1477 Nicholas Barton. He was accused in 1483, of "witchcraft" and "incontinence", neither of these offences was proved against him, for "he still kept this Portion"
1496 Thomas Marshall
1507 John Newport, A.M.
1517 Nicholas Mainwaring
1521 Robert Ley
1562 William Barnes
1569 Gabriel Goodman, A.M.
1601 Henry Wilkinson, A.B.
1648 Richard Bennet
1661 John Ellis, B.D.
1682 Henry Hibbins, B.D.
1705 Lawrence Kingford, A.M.
1726 Benjamin Holloway, LL.B.
1736 Henry Lofft, A.M.
1772 Benjamin Skinner, A.M.
1787 George Harry Chitty, Clerk
1794 Howell Holland Edwards, A.M.
1799 Thomas Hornsby, A.M.
1829 E.W.F. Latimer

Rectors of the Third Portion of Waddesdon (sometimes called the Portion at the Green)

----Hugh de Pateshull
1240 John Wike
1290 William de Strete
1295 Thomas de Oudeslowe
1316 Henry de Solers
1322 John Gentelcorps, but deprived for "Homicide"
1329 John Moton
13-- Henry Moton
1346 Henry de Chaddesden
1354 Nicholas de Chaddesden
1360 Thomas Finderne
1361 Richard Stonford, or Stodfold
1361 John Mitchell
1364 Walter Ramwell
1369 Baldwin de Shillingford
1373 John de Shillingford, LL.D.
1383William Odecombe
1383 Richard Benet
13-- John Bannebury
1392 Thomas de Kerdington
1400 Matthew Downe
1407 John Drake
1431 Henry Burton
1432 Richard Andrew, LL.D.
1451 circa Nicholas Buckland
1456 Thomas Robert
1477 Robert Gagge
1500 Richard Sherrington
1509 Rowland Frithbank
1510 John Egleston, S.T.P.
1516 Robert Huntingdon
1543 John Johnson
1543 Thomas Hurdis
1550 Henry Bexwith
1553 John Harding
1561 George Chapman
1569 James Thornton
1582 John Purefoy, A.M.
1601 Thomas Burgess
1605 George Carleton, B.D.
1618 circa Michael Reade, S.T.P.
1638 Henry Stringer, B.D.
1648 and 1650 Richard Sagar
1660 circa John Ellis
1681 Samuel Harrison, A.M.
1693 Joseph Willis, A.B.
1730 Francis Bagshaw, B.D.
1734 George Salter A.M.
1744 Jonathan Butler
1800 Charles Proby, Junior, A.M.
1823 James Lowry, A.B.