Rectors of Pitsford
Godwin the Priest (in Domesday Book 1086)1 Peter de Hersfield 1218
2 Henry
3 Giles son of Philip de Pittesforde 14th September 1282
4 Adam de Buckton 3rd September 1313
5 John de Brom 23rd September 1334
6 Adam son of Lawrence de Boketon 27th March 1335
7 John Boner 8th October 1353
8 John Rowell of Endredeby 12th February 1357-8
9 Richard de Bollesover 12th September 1360
10 Thomas de Whatton 31st October 1361
11 Thomas Hilles 19th April 1362
12 John Curteys
13 Robert Brydde 13th December 1400
14 Thomas Spencer 22nd March 1402
15 Gilbert Bury 21st March 1418
16 Gilbert Therneberne 4th July 1427
17 William Hewett
18 Roger Cotton 29th November 1429
19 Thomas Tyssill 19th October 1435
20 William Grene 3rd June 1447
21 George Grytte 23rd January 1489-90
22 William Mason
23 Nicholas Roland, alias Covesby 2nd January 1514-5 d.1521
24 John Sherard 15th October 1521
25 Thomas Saxby 30th June 1544
26 Nicholas Herman MA 29th December 1558
27 John Ringrose 9th February 1559-60 d 1594
28 Edmund Skinner 6th August 1594 d 21st May 1628
29 +Robert Skinner DD 22nd May 1628 res. 10th February 1635
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(Bishop of Bristol 1636, Oxford 1641, and Worcester 1663)
30 Henry Wylde MA 10th February 1636-7
31 Edmund Vaughan BD 30th December 1640
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Richard White MA 14th June 1644
William Ward 1655
John Ventris 1655
Edmund Vaughan BD re-instated 1660
32 John Barbon MA 22nd February 1669-70
33 Thomas Nixon STP 10th July 1688
34 Samuel Rose MA 20th December 1690
35 Charles Briscoe MA 29th June 1699
36 John Woodford MA 30th March 1748
37 William Jackson MA 14th April 1769
38 Robert Charles Blayney MA 25th March 1795
39 Edward Collins Wright MA 2nd November 1824
40 Granville Sykes Howard-Vyse 14th December 1842
41 John White MA 21st November 1892
42 Charles Groves-Broadhurst BD 5th December 1941
43 Canon Henry Johnstone Boyd MA 5th June 1959
44 Peter Malton AKC 4th February 1965
45 William Gale 28th May 1967
46 Canon John Richards 30th April 1974 d.1979
Rector of Pitsford with Boughton
47 Canon Stephen Trott MA LLM FRSA 19th June 1988