Archdeacon of Huntingdon and Wisbech

The Archdeacon of Huntingdon and Wisbech is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the Diocese of Ely. The archdeacon is responsible for some clergy discipline and pastoral care in the Archdeaconry of Huntingdon and Wisbech.

History

The Archdeaconry of Huntingdon was a part of the Diocese of Lincoln from (at the latest) the early 12th century. As such it is the oldest continually occupied Archdeaconry in England. The archdeaconry was moved to Ely diocese by Order in Council on 30 May 1837.^[1] The archdeaconry of Wisbech was created from several deaneries not already in an archdeaconry, by Order in Council on 5 February 1915.^[2] c. 2004–2005, appointments to the Wisbech archdeaconry ceased and Huntingdon archdeaconry was renamed to the present Archdeaconry of Huntingdon and Wisbech.

List of archdeacons

High Medieval^{[citation needed]}

bef. 1092–1110 (d.): Nicholas (Archdeacon of Cambridge, Huntingdon and Hertford; also called archdeacon of Lincoln)
bef. 1123–aft. 1156: Henry of Huntingdon
bef. 1166–aft. 1160: Hugh (disputed)
bef. 1166–bef. 1187: Nicholas de Sigillo
bef. 1192–aft. 1204: Robert de Hardres
bef. 1206–bef. 1214 (res.): William de Cornhill
bef. 1214–aft. 1223 (res.): Robert de Hailes/of Hailes
bef. 1223–bef. 1228: Philip de Fauconberg
bef. 1230–bef. 1239: Gilbert de Tantone
bef. 1240–aft. 1245: William de Arundel
bef. 1246–?: T.
bef. 1247–aft. 1253: Robert de Hicche
bef. 1255–aft. 1254: R. (disputed)
bef. 1256–aft. 1275: Roger of Raveningham
bef. 1277–aft. 1282: William of Newark
bef. 1287–c. 1295: Roger Martival
15 March 1295–? (dep.): John de Colonna (papal provision reversed after collation)
26 December 1295–bef. 1308 (d.): Walter Wutton/of Wootton

Late Medieval^{[citation needed]}

22 May 1308–bef. 1309 (d.): Arnald de le Breto
14 August 1309–bef. 1318 (deprived): Guicard de le Breto (deprived for plurality)
1318–1327 (res.): James Berkeley
1329–bef. 1337 (d.): Richard Brinchesle
4 July 1337 – 1361 (res.): William Whittlesey
1344: Pedro Cardinal Gòmez de Barroso (ineffective provision; cardinal-bishop of Sabina)
16 October–October 1361 (d.): Fortanerius Vassalli OFM, Patriarch of Grado
aft. 1362–?: John Swynle/Swynlegh
May 1386: John Lincoln of Grimsby (probably ineffective royal grant)
1386–24 February 1394 (exch.): William Welborne
24 February 1394–aft. 1413: Eudo Zouche/la Zouche
24 March–22 July 1414 (d.): John Tibbay
26 July 1414–bef. 1421 (res.): Richard Hethe
15 December 1421–?: William Lassells
bef. 1447–bef. 1462 (d.): Richard Morsby
20 February 1462–bef. 1464 (d.): Richard Hayman
25 September 1464–March 1475 (d.): Vincent Clement
27 March 1475 – 1478 (res.): John Morton
13 June 1478 – 1493 (res.): John Blyth
17 February–28 July 1494 (res.): Thomas Hutton
28 July 1494–bef. 1496: Robert Sherborne
5 March 1496–bef. April 1496 (res.): Christopher Urswick
28 April 1496 – 1502 (res.): William Warham
10 July 1502–bef. 1512 (d.): John Foster
1 December 1512 – 1514 (res.): John Constable
3 June 1514–bef. November 1514 (res.): William Atwater

18 November 1514 – 1523 (res.): Richard Rawlins
12 September 1523 – 1541 (res.): William Knight

Early modern^{[citation needed]}

5 April 1542–July 1543 (d.): Richard Gwent
27 July 1543–bef. 1560 (deprived): Anthony Draycot (deprived)
28 September 1560 – 1567 (d.): Robert Beaumont
25 December 1567–bef. 1576 (res.): John Bullingham
29 October 1576–bef. 1612 (d.): Robert Condall
23 August 1612–bef. 1615 (d.): Nathan Gifford
1 December 1615 – 1621 (res.): William Laud
26 April 1622–June 1633 (d.): Owen Gwyn
12 January 1634 – 22 August 1649 (d.): Richard Holdsworth
19 November 1649 – 18 March 1665 (res.):^[3] Peter Mews
18 March 1666 – 4 March 1667 (d.): William Johnson
27 April 1667–bef. 1669 (d.): Henry Downhall
29 March 1670–bef. 1673 (d.): Richard Perrinchief
5 September 1673 – 14 May 1701 (res.): John Hammond
15 May 1701 – 1720 (res.): White Kennett (also Bishop of Peterborough from 1718)
15 April 1721–bef. 1725 (res.): John Sturges
12 August 1725 – 17 March 1747 (d.): William Lunn
28 March 1747 – 3 February 1757 (d.): Timothy Neve^[4]
22 April 1757 – 31 January 1770 (d.): Charles Jenner
23 February 1770 – 8 September 1773 (d.): Nicholas Cholwell
1 January 1774 – 22 February 1794 (d.): Michael Tyson
16 April 1794 – 1812 (res.): Thomas Parkinson
4 April 1812 – 1814 (res.): Thomas Middleton
5 July 1814 – 5 February 1828 (d.): James Hook^[5]
25 February 1828 – 9 February 1856 (d.): John Banks Hollingworth

On 30 May 1837, the archdeaconry was moved from Lincoln diocese to the Diocese of Ely.

22 March 1856 – 16 March 1870 (res.): The Hon Henry Yorke

Late modern

1870–1874 (res.): Francis McDougall^[6]
1874–18 March 1915 (d.): Gerald Vesey^[7]
1915–28 September 1921 (d.): Thomas Hodgson^[8]
1921–1943 (ret.): Kenneth Knowles (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)^[9]
1943–1947 (res.): William Uthwatt (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)^[10]
1947–1955 (ret.): James Jones^[11]
1954–1965 (ret.): Arthur Royle^[12]
1965–1975 (res.): Dennis Page^[13]
1975–1977 (res.): David Young^[14]^[15]
1978–1996 (ret.): Richard Sledge^[16]
1997–2004 (res.): John Beer (also {acting?} Archdeacon of Wisbech from 2003)^[17]^[18]

c. 2004–2005, the archdeaconry was renamed from Huntingdon to Huntingdon and Wisbech.

2005 – April 2022 (ret.): Hugh McCurdy^[19]^[20]^[21]
25 September 2022 – present: Richard Harlow^[22]

Archdeacons of Wisbech

Wisbech was a separate archdeaconry from 1915 until 2004.

1915–6 January 1916 (d.): Colin Campbell^[23]
1916–1923 (res.): James Srawley^[24]
1924–1945 (res.): George Ward^[25]
1945–1953 (res.): Seiriol Evans^[26]
1953–1964 (res.): John Pelloe^[27]
1965–6 November 1978 (d.): George Fox^[28]
1979–1984 (res.): William Patterson^[29]
1984–1993 (res.): David Fleming^[30]
1995–December 2002 (ret.): Jim Rone^[31]^[32]
2003–2004 (res.): John Beer (Acting?)^[18]

c. 2004–2005, the archdeaconry lapsed or ceased.

References

^ "No. 19499". The London Gazette. 30 May 1837. pp. 1367–1371.
^ "No. 29060". The London Gazette. 5 February 1915. pp. 1207–1208.
^ "Mews, Peter (1645–1699) (CCEd Person ID 7205)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
^ "Neve, Timothy (1694–1757)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
^ "Hook, James (1772?–1828)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13684. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Overton, John Henry. McDougall, Francis Thomas in the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, Volume 35
^ "Vesey, Francis Gerald". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2008 (December 2007 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 5 June 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Hodgson, Thomas". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2008 (December 2007 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 5 June 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Knowles, Kenneth Davenport". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2008 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 5 June 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Uthwatt, William Andrewes". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2008 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 5 June 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Jones, James William Percy". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2008 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 5 June 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Royle, Arthur". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2008 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 5 June 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Page, Dennis Fountain". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2008 (December 2009 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 5 June 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Telegraph Obituary – David Young
^ "Young, David Nigel de Lorentz". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2008 (December 2008 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 5 June 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Sledge, Richard Kitson". Who's Who. Vol. 2013 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 5 June 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Ely Diocese – Who's Who – John Beer Archived 30 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine
^ ^a ^b "Beer, John Stuart". Who's Who. Vol. 2013 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 5 June 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Ely Diocese – Who's Who – Hugh McCurdy". Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 25 July 2009.
^ "McCurdy, Hugh Kyle". Who's Who. Vol. 2013 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 5 June 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Announcement: Hugh Kyle McCurdy". Diocese of Ely. 24 January 2022. Archived from the original on 1 February 2022. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
^ "Collation — Richard Harlow". Diocese of Ely. Archived from the original on 27 September 2022. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
^ "Campbell, Colin Arthur Fitzgerald". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2007 (December 2007 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 17 March 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Srawley, James Herbert". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2007 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 17 March 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Ward, George Herbert". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2007 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 17 March 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Evans, Seiriol John Arthur". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2007 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 17 March 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Pelloe, John Parker". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2007 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 17 March 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Fox, (Benjamin) George (Burton)". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2007 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 17 March 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Patterson, William James". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2007 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 17 March 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Fleming, David". Who's Who. Vol. 2014 (December 2013 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 17 March 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Rone, James". Who's Who. Vol. 2014 (December 2013 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 17 March 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Diocese of Ely – Announcement of death of the Ven Jim Rone Archived 2014-02-02 at the Wayback Machine (Accessed 17 March 2014)

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Greenway, Diana E. (1977), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300, vol. 3, pp. 26–30
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[1] "No. 19499". The London Gazette. 30 May 1837. pp. 1367–1371.

[2] "No. 29060". The London Gazette. 5 February 1915. pp. 1207–1208.

[3] "Mews, Peter (1645–1699) (CCEd Person ID 7205)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835. Retrieved 28 March 2015.

[4] "Neve, Timothy (1694–1757)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

[5] "Hook, James (1772?–1828)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13684. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[6] Overton, John Henry. McDougall, Francis Thomas in the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, Volume 35

[7] "Vesey, Francis Gerald". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2008 (December 2007 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 5 June 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[8] "Hodgson, Thomas". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2008 (December 2007 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 5 June 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[9] "Knowles, Kenneth Davenport". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2008 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 5 June 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[10] "Uthwatt, William Andrewes". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2008 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 5 June 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[11] "Jones, James William Percy". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2008 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 5 June 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[12] "Royle, Arthur". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2008 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 5 June 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[13] "Page, Dennis Fountain". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2008 (December 2009 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 5 June 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[14] Telegraph Obituary – David Young

[15] "Young, David Nigel de Lorentz". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2008 (December 2008 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 5 June 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[16] "Sledge, Richard Kitson". Who's Who. Vol. 2013 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 5 June 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[17] Ely Diocese – Who's Who – John Beer Archived 30 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine

[beer-18] "Beer, John Stuart". Who's Who. Vol. 2013 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 5 June 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[19] "Ely Diocese – Who's Who – Hugh McCurdy". Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 25 July 2009.

[20] "McCurdy, Hugh Kyle". Who's Who. Vol. 2013 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 5 June 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[21] "Announcement: Hugh Kyle McCurdy". Diocese of Ely. 24 January 2022. Archived from the original on 1 February 2022. Retrieved 1 February 2022.

[22] "Collation — Richard Harlow". Diocese of Ely. Archived from the original on 27 September 2022. Retrieved 27 September 2022.

[23] "Campbell, Colin Arthur Fitzgerald". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2007 (December 2007 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 17 March 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[24] "Srawley, James Herbert". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2007 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 17 March 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[25] "Ward, George Herbert". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2007 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 17 March 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[26] "Evans, Seiriol John Arthur". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2007 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 17 March 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[27] "Pelloe, John Parker". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2007 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 17 March 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[28] "Fox, (Benjamin) George (Burton)". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2007 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 17 March 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[29] "Patterson, William James". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2007 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 17 March 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[30] "Fleming, David". Who's Who. Vol. 2014 (December 2013 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 17 March 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[31] "Rone, James". Who's Who. Vol. 2014 (December 2013 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 17 March 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[32] Diocese of Ely – Announcement of death of the Ven Jim Rone Archived 2014-02-02 at the Wayback Machine (Accessed 17 March 2014)

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v t e Archdeacons of Huntingdon, of Huntingdon and Wisbech and of Wisbech
High Medieval	Nicholas (Archdeacon of Cambridge, Huntingdon and Hertford) Henry of Huntingdon Hugh Nicholas de Sigillo Robert de Hardres William de Cornhill Robert de Hailes/of Hailes Philip de Fauconberg Gilbert de Tantone William de Arundel T. Robert de Hicche R. Roger of Raveningham William of Newark Roger Martival John de Colonna Walter Wutton/of Wootton
Late Medieval	Arnald de le Breto Guicard de le Breto James Berkeley Richard Brinchesle William Whittlesey Pedro Cardinal Gòmez de Barroso Fortanerius Vassalli John Swynle/Swynlegh John Lincoln of Grimsby William Welborne Eudo Zouche/la Zouche John Tibbay Richard Hethe William Lassells Richard Morsby Richard Hayman Vincent Clement John Morton John Blyth Thomas Hutton Robert Sherborne Christopher Urswick William Warham John Foster John Constable William Atwater Richard Rawlins William Knight
Early modern	Richard Gwent Anthony Draycot Robert Beaumont John Bullingham Robert Condall Nathan Gifford William Laud Owen Gwyn/Gwynne Richard Holdsworth Peter Mews William Johnson Henry Downhall Richard Perrinchief John Hammond White Kennett John Sturges William Lunn Timothy Neve Charles Jenner Nicholas Cholwell Michael Tyson Thomas Parkinson Thomas Middleton James Hook John Hollingworth Henry Yorke
Late modern	Francis McDougall Gerald Vesey Thomas Hodgson Kenneth Knowles William Uthwatt James Jones Arthur Royle Dennis Page David Young Richard Sledge John Beer Hugh McCurdy, Archdeacon of Huntingdon and Wisbech Richard Harlow, Archdeacon of Huntingdon and Wisbech
of Wisbech (1915–2004)	Colin Campbell James Srawley George Ward Seiriol Evans John Pelloe George Fox William Patterson David Fleming Jim Rone John Beer (Acting?)

v t e Diocese of Ely
Ely Cathedral Isle of Ely Bishop's House, Ely (since 1941) Bishop Woodford House Bishop's Palace, Ely (15th century – 1941) Ely Palace, Holborn (1290–1772) Ely House, Mayfair (1776–1908)
Office holders	Dagmar Winter, Acting Bishop of Ely and Bishop suffragan of Huntingdon AEO: Bishop suffragan of Richborough (vacant) & Rob Munro, Bishop suffragan of Ebbsfleet Mark Bonney, Dean of Ely Alex Hughes, Archdeacon of Cambridge Richard Harlow, Archdeacon of Huntingdon and Wisbech
Historic offices	Archdeacon of Ely (c. 1106 – ren. 2006) Archdeacon of Bedford (1837–1914; moved to Diocese of St Albans) Archdeacon of Wisbech (1915 – c. 2004; merged into Huntingdon {& Wisbech})