Curates, Vicars & Rectors of Westhoughton
We assume that where a gap appears there must have been an interregnum (vacancy). 1506 c Piers Crompton 1510 - 1535 Thomas Strete 1627 c John Ridgeley 1628 - 1650 Alexander Horrocks 1651 c John Isherwood 1657 c John Harper 1660 - 1662 Peter Naylor 1671 c John Eddleston 1687 c James Bradshaw 1686 c Ralph Reeve 1696 c ? Wood 1687 c Jeremiah Aldred 1700 - 1720 Joseph Lees 1720 - 1731 William Orme 1732 - 1755 Robert Harvey 1755 - 1782 Thomas Whitehead 1788 - 1816 Thomas Heyes 1816 - 1842 Christopher Bateson 1842 - 1868 James Richard Alsop 1868 - ? William Henry Ranken 1869 - 1889 Kinton Jacques 1890 - 1908 Christopher Cronshaw 1980 - 1937 George Henry St Patrick Garrett 1937 - 1953 John Dimmock 1953 - 1980 Thomas Davies 1980 - 1987 Fred J Gilbert (Rector from 1983) 1980 - 1991 Geoffrey B White (Vicar) 1988 - 2001 Simon Tatton Brown (Team Rector) 1992 - 1994 Adrian Stringer ( Team Vicar) 2004 - 2014 Gary Lawson (Team Rector) 2006 - 2010 Rob Jackson (Team Vicar) 2013 - present Gareth Thomas (Team Vicar) 2014 - present Chris Bracegirdle (Team Rector) |
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