St James the
Great, Thorley
Rectors
Name of Rector Date of Institution Patron
William Vigerons 13th April 1327 Bishop of London
Stephen de Scatldeford 6th May 1329 "
William-at-Water 6th May 1333 "
Thomas Thorpe 24th Sept. 1393 "
John Berton 18th April 1401 "
John Gray - "
William Seton 2nd Sept. 1431 "
John Chicheley 17th April 1433 "
William Northwold 31st July 1434 "
Robert Coventry 7th June 1443 "
John Gaytcliffe 11th Sept. 1470 "
Henry Thomas - "
Robert Wylly 8th Oct. 1474 "
Thomas, Bishop of Pavia 22nd Oct. 1493 "
Robert Glowceter - "
Ralph Wakefield 14th Feb. 1502 "
Thomas Chamber 10th April 1528 "
Edmund Brygate 22nd Oct. 1545 "
John Atherton 28th Sept. 1562 "
Christopher Taten 20th April 1573 "
Francis Burley(1) 5th July 1594 Queen Elizabeth,the
See of London being
vacant.
John Mountford 3rd May 1619 Bishop of London
Robert Pory Nov. 1640 "
Benjamin Some 1662 "
Thomas Turner(2) 4th Nov. 1680 "
Thomas Beaumont 20th Jan. 1689 "
John Reynolds 27th Jan. 1710 "
Thomas Ely 27th May 1728 "
William Gibson 27th Nov. 1742 "
John Horsley 18th March 1745 "
Thomas Henry Louth 5th Jan. 1778 "
Stephen Eaton 6th July 1778 "
Samuel Horsley(3) 11th Dec. 1779 "
Joseph Warton(4) 20th April 1782 "
William Browne 14th Jan. 1784 "
Thomas Pennington 7th Feb. 1798 "
Frederick Vander-Meulen 13th Jan. 1853 "
John Mathias Procter(5) 22nd Jan. 1883 Bishop of St Albans
John Edward Ingleby Procter(6) 28th Sept. 1909 "
Norman Ashby 1938 "
George Harding Wood 1940 "
Sydney E.F. Robinson(7) 1946 "
Alan John Cole 20th Oct. 1980 Queen Elizabeth II, the
See of St Albans being
vacant.
Clive P. Slaughter 11th June 1987 Bishop of St Albans
Robert H.V. Payne 11th Sept. 2002 "
1. One of the Revisers of the Authorised Version of the Bible issued in 1611.
2. Founder of the Apprenticing Charity.
3. Successively Bishop of St David's, Rochester, and St Asaph.
4. Head Master of Winchester College, 1766-1793.
5. Hon. Canon of St Albans.
6. Hon. Canon of St Albans.
7. Hon. Canon of St Albans.