High Medieval :
Some archdeacons without territorial titles are recorded from around the time of the Norman Conquest; see Archdeacon of Salisbury. • bef. 1139–1139:
Azo (probably the later
Dean of Salisbury) • bef. 1139–aft. 1157:
Roger of Ramsbury • bef. 1161–1164:
Reginald Fitz Jocelin • bef. 1173–aft. 1173:
William • bef. 1179–aft. 1189:
Richard of Wilton • 1193:
Humphrey of Bassingbourn or de Bassingeburn (became
Archdeacon of Salisbury) • 1193–1198 (res.):
William of Sainte-Mère-Église (became
Bishop of London) • bef. 1199–aft. 1222:
Richard Grosseteste • bef. 1223–aft. 1223:
William de Merston • bef. 1226–aft. 1246:
Stephen of Tisbury • bef. 1246–1247 (d.):
Roger of Buscot • 1247–aft. 1257:
Nicholas of York • bef. 1258–aft. 1271:
Roger de la Grene • bef. 1275–aft. 1279:
Henry Brandeston (became
Archdeacon of Dorset) • bef. 1283–bef. 1284:
Ralph of Leicester • bef. 1284–aft. 1287:
Ralph le Waleys of Brightwell • aft. 1288–aft. 1296:
William of Abingdon • bef. 1299–1303 (d.):
Richard de Sotwell Late Medieval • ?–1304 (deprived):
Thomas of Savoy • 25 January 1304–bef. 1320 (d.):
William de Chaddleshunt • bef. 1321–bef. 1326 (d.):
Gerald de Tilheto • 12 March–March 1326 (res.):
Iswin de Gandavo • March 1326 (res.):
Robert de Baldock senior • 27 March 1326 – 1331 (res.):
Robert de Ayleston (became
Archdeacon of Berkshire) • 8 August 1331–aft. 1333:
Ralph de Querendon • 10 January 1333 – 30 June 1343 (exch.):
John de Whitchurch • 30 June 1343–bef. 1361 (d.):
John Barne • 26–27 December 1361 (exch.):
John Lineden • 27 December 1361–aft. 1379:
John Silvestre or Codeford • 1388–bef. 1407 (d.):
Nicholas Wykeham • 17 March–21 April 1407 (exch.):
William Magot • 21 April 1407–March 1419:
John Chitterne (became Archdeacon of Salisbury) • 1419–bef. 1423 (d.):
John Gaunstede • 13 October 1423 – 1449 (res.):
John Symondesburgh • 14 August 1449 – 1452 (res.):
John Chadworth (became
Bishop of Lincoln) • 8 November 1452–aft. 1454:
Marinus Ursinus • 27 March 1457–bef. 1464 (res.):
Vincent Clement • 10 October 1464 – 1478 (res.):
Peter Courtenay (became
Bishop of Exeter) • 1 February 1479–aft. 1485:
Hugh Pavy (
in commendam as
Bishop of St Davids from 1485) • bef. 1488–bef. 1522 (d.):
Christopher Urswick,
Dean of York until 1494,
Dean of Windsor (1496–1505) and Rector of
Hackney from 1502 (also
Archdeacon of Richmond (1494–1500),
Archdeacon of Norfolk (1500–1522) and
Archdeacon of Oxford (from 1504)) • 12 May 1522–bef. 1539 (d.):
Edward Finch • 15 January 1539–bef. 1554 (deprived):
John Pollard (deprived) (also
Archdeacon of Cornwall from 1543,
Archdeacon of Barnstaple from 1544)
Early modern • 1554–bef. 1564 (deprived):
John Lawrence (deprived) • 1564–aft. 1577:
Giles Lawrence • 1577–10 March 1590 (d.):
John Sprint • 1590–7 February 1610 (d.):
Edmund Lilly,
Master of Balliol • 7 March 1610–bef. 1614 (d.):
Walter Benet • 15 November 1614–bef. 1646 (d.):
Thomas Leche • 1646–1663:
vacant (Commonwealth) • 6 July 1660 – 19 July 1663 (d.):
William Creed,
Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford • 1 August 1663 – 15 December 1674 (d.):
Thomas Henchman • 4 February 1675 – 1681 (res.):
Seth Ward • 15 November 1681 – 1687 (res.):
Robert Woodward (later
Dean of Salisbury) • 19 January 1687 – 20 March 1696 (d.):
Thomas Ward • 9 April 1696 – 12 April 1720 (d.):
Cornelius Yate • 26 April 1720 – 1735 (res.):
Thomas Rundle (became
Bishop of Derry) • 18 July 1735 – 2 January 1763 (d.):
Henry Stebbing • 20 January 1763–bef. 1768 (res.):
Charles Weston • 22 September 1768–bef. 1779 (d.):
Richard Brickenden • 5 March 1779–February 1799 (d.):
Arthur Coham • 9 March 1799 – 5 May 1804 (res.):
William Douglas • 9 May 1804 – 8 June 1828 (d.):
William Coxe • 14 June 1828 – 24 June 1862 (d.):
William Macdonald Late modern • 1862–1863:
Henry Drury • 1863–1868:
Charles Harris (became
Bishop of Gibraltar) • 1868–1874:
Thomas Stanton • 1874–1911 (ret.):
Thomas Buchanan, Vicar of
Potterne until 1891, then Rector of
Poulshot, until 1905 • 1911–1912 (res.):
Frederic Wallis (previously
Bishop of Wellington; later
Archdeacon of Sherborne) • 1912–1927 (res.):
Eric Bodington (became
Archdeacon of Dorset) • 1927–1951 (ret.):
Joseph Coulter, Vicar of
Calne (afterwards archdeacon emeritus) • 1951–1974 (ret.):
Cecil Plaxton, Rector of
Pewsey until 1965 (afterwards archdeacon emeritus) • 1974–1980 (res.):
John Neale,
Bishop suffragan of Ramsbury • 1980–1998 (ret.):
John Smith, Vicar of
Bishops Cannings,
All Cannings and
Etchilhampton until 1983; Team Vicar,
Redhorn from 1990 (afterwards archdeacon emeritus) • 1998–2004 (ret.):
Barney Hopkinson (previously
Archdeacon of Sarum) • 2004–2012 (res.):
John Wraw (became area
Bishop of Bradwell) • 2012–2013:
Alan Jeans, Archdeacon of Sarum (Acting) • 28 January 2013September 2015:
Ruth Worsley • 22 February 2016May 2024 (ret.):
Sue Groom • 24 May 2025present:
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