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

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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

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### High Medieval[citation needed]

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* 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]

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* 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]

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* 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

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* 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]

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## Archdeacons of Wisbech

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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

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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
18. ^ 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.)
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)

## Sources

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* Greenway, Diana E. (1977), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300, vol. 3, pp. 26–30
* King, H.P.F. (1962), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300–1541, vol. 1, pp. 8–10
* Horn, Joyce M.; Smith, David M. (1999), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 9, pp. 16–18
* Horn, Joyce M. (1992), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 7, pp. 14–15

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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?)

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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})

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Archdeacons in the Church of England

Current|

| northern
province|

* Auckland
* Blackburn
* Bolton
* Bradford
* Carlisle
* Chester
* Cleveland
* Doncaster
* Durham
* East Riding (York)
* Halifax
* Lancaster
* Leeds
* Lindisfarne
* Liverpool
* Knowsley and Sefton
* Macclesfield
* Man
* Manchester
* Newark
* Nottingham
* Northumberland
* Pontefract
* Richmond and Craven
* Rochdale
* St Helens and Warrington
* Salford
* Sheffield and Rotherham
* Stoke
* Sunderland
* Walsall
* West Cumberland
* Westmorland and Furness
* Wigan and West Lancashire
* York (West Riding)

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southern
province|

* Ashford
* Aston
* Barnstaple
* Barking
* Bath
* Bedford
* Berkshire
* Birmingham
* Bodmin
* Boston
* Bournemouth
* Brighton & Lewes
* Bristol
* Bromley & Bexley
* Buckingham
* Cambridge
* Canterbury
* Chelmsford
* Charing Cross ("Two Cities")
* Cheltenham
* Chichester
* Colchester
* Cornwall
* Coventry ("Archdeacon Pastor")
* Croydon
* Derby City and South Derbyshire
* Derbyshire Peak and Dales
* Dorchester
* Dorking
* Dorset
* Dudley
* East Derbyshire
* Eastern Archdeaconry (Europe)
* Exeter
* France
* Germany and Northern Europe
* Gibraltar
* Gloucester
* Hackney
* Hampstead
* Hastings
* Hereford
* Hertford
* Horsham
* Huntingdon and Wisbech
* Ipswich
* Isle of Wight
* Italy and Malta
* Lambeth
* Leicester
* Lewisham & Greenwich
* Lichfield
* Lincoln
* London
* Loughborough
* Ludlow
* Lynn
* Maidstone
* Malmesbury
* The Meon
* Middlesex
* Norfolk
* North West Europe
* Northampton
* Northolt
* Norwich
* Oakham
* Oxford
* Plymouth
* Portsdown
* Reigate
* Rochester
* St Albans
* Salop/Shropshire (Lichfield diocese)
* Sarum
* Sherborne
* Southend
* Southwark
* Stansted
* Stow and Lindsey
* Sudbury
* Suffolk
* Surrey
* Switzerland
* Taunton
* Tonbridge
* Totnes
* Wandsworth
* Warwick ("Archdeacon Missioner")
* Wells
* West Ham
* Westminster
* Wilts
* Winchester
* Worcester

non-territorial|

* Military archdeacons: Royal Navy, Army, Royal Air Force
* Prison Service
* "Archdeacon Missioner" (see Warwick) & "Archdeacon Pastor" (see Coventry)
* Rural Mission (Eds & Ips diocese)

Former|

| England|

* Basingstoke
* Bromley
* Chesterfield
* Cirencester
* Craven
* Derby
* Ely
* Essex
* Furness
* Generous Giving and Stewardship (York diocese)
* Halifax (old)
* Harlow
* Huddersfield
* Huntingdon
* Kingston-on-Thames
* Lewes
* Lewes & Hastings
* Lewisham
* Lindsey
* Mission Resources (Leeds diocese)
* North Wilts
* Portsmouth
* Richmond
* Ripon
* Salisbury
* Shropshire/Salop (Hereford diocese)
* Stafford
* Stow
* Swindon
* Warrington
* Westmorland
* Winchester (ancient)
* Wisbech

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