The advowson* of Harlton belonged to the priory of Newton Longville (Bucks) until c. 1257, after which it descended with the manor. By 1587 John Duport had acquired the advowson from the Barnes family (presumably because of their recusancy) and in 1604 transferred the living to the patronage of Jesus College, Cambridge. Since then many of the rectors have been fellows of that College.
A full list of rectors may be found on the board on the north wall of the chancel above the choir stalls. the list is reproduced here.
John deLacy | 1707 | John Bagnall | |
1330 | Henry de Scalariis | 1712 | Gilbert Hooke |
1338 | John de Hyngestone | 1715 | John Brooke |
1346 | John de Bottesley | 1723 | John Lucas |
1347 | John de Byfield | 1727 | Lees Ward |
1349 | Roger de Tuffield | 1756 | Richard Oakley |
1388 | Robert de Comberton | 1784 | Jonathan Chapman |
1392 | Thomas de Spalding | 1806 | Edward Daniel Clarke |
1393 | John Attee Hoo | 1822 | George Palmer |
1460 | John Abbot | 1830 | Charles Macarthy |
Bernard | 1839 | James Fendall | |
1465 | Rad Shawe | 1867 | Osmond Fisher |
1492 | William Spalding | 1906 | W.K.Lowther Clarke |
1518 | Doctor Lupton | 1908 | William Ellison |
1539 | Christopher Wyllys | 1923 | Frank Rowling |
1556 | John Hall | 1927 | Lewis Walker (PIC) |
1557 | John Tylney | 1929 | Edgar John White |
1561 | Thomas Whitehead | 1936 | Thomas Harold Clapton |
1579 | Arthur Hughes | 1952 | Herbert George Wise (PIC) |
1580 | John Davenport | 1961 | David Edgard Reid Isitt |
1584 | William Pentlowe | 1969 | John Bishop Rowsell |
1628 | Marmaduke Thompson | 1981 | Kenneth Gordon Taylor |
1642 | Richard Sterne | 1989 | Peter Gilding |
1643 | Jonathan Allen | 1997 | Peter Owen-Jones |
1661 | Charles Bussey | 2007 | Michael Matthews (Vicar) |
1662 | John Sherman | 2014 | Rebecca Gilbert |
1671 | William Cooke | 2021 | Claire Robertson |
While many rectors were pluralists and non resident, employing curates to do their pastoral work for them while enjoying the income from the parish, there have been some notable figures amongst them: click on the name where there is a link to learn more about them