High Medieval At its creation, the archdeaconry was in the Diocese of Coventry. Multiple archdeacons are named from 1086, but their territorial titles are unknown. • bef. 1126–aft. 1140:
Godfrey • :
Roger • –aft. 1167:
Froger • :
N. • –aft. 1182:
Godfrey de Luci • bef. 1191–aft. 1191:
Yvo • bef. 1199–aft. 1199:
Vivian de Stagno • bef. 1206–aft. 1231:
William de Muschamp • bef. 1238–aft. 1254:
William de Luteby • bef. 1256–aft. 1261:
David de Sancta Frideswida • bef. 1263–aft. 1263:
William de Weston • bef. 1278–aft. 1278:
Simon • bef. 1279–aft. 1281:
Jordan de Wymburne • bef. 1281–July 1311 (d.):
Elias de Napton Late Medieval • 17 December 1311–February 1328 (d.):
Geoffrey de Blaby or Glaston • 15 March 1328–bef. 1338 (d.):
Anthony de Monte Peliologo • 23 February 1339–bef. 1351 (d.):
John de Asheby • 19 August 1351 – 1353 (res.):
John de Marisco • 26 November 1353–bef. 1361 (d.):
Hugh de Marisco • 17 October 1361 – 24 December 1369 (exch.):
Robert de Stretton • 24 December 1369–bef. 1381 (d.):
William Lombe • 15 November 1381 – 14 January 1418 (d.):
John de Outheby • bef. 1428–1431 (res.):
Walter Bullock • 2 September 1431 – 23 May 1473 (exch.):
John Bride • 23 May 1473–bef. 1485:
William Chauntre • 12 October 1485 – 8 May 1501 (d.):
Edmund Hals • bef. 1506–1515 (res.):
Nicholas West • 9 March 1516–bef. 1533 (res.):
John Taylor (also
Master of the Rolls ::from 1527 and
Archdeacon of Halifax from 1528) • April 1533–7 January 1543 (d.):
Richard Strete Early modern • 8 January 1543 – 1557 (res.):
David Pole (also
Archdeacon of Salop) • November 1558 – 1559 (deprived):
John Ramridge (also
Dean of Lichfield) • November 1559–September 1567 (d.):
Richard Walker (also
Archdeacon of Stafford) • 17 September 1567 – 1576 (d.):
Laurence Nowell (also Dean of Lichfield) • 29 July 1577 – 1587 (d.):
Luke Gilpin • March 1588–23 November 1590 (rem.):
Walter Marsh • 23 November 1590 – 1 June 1603 (d.):
John Walton • 9 June 1603–bef. 1609:
Valentine Overton • 1609–bef. 1617:
Christopher Helme • 4 December 1617–bef. 1641 (d.):
Samuel Clerk • 1641–bef. 1666 (d.):
William Higgins • bef. 1666–1689 (res.):
Thomas Brown (or
Browne) • 7 August 1689–bef. 1704 (d.):
Francis Ashenhurst • 14 December 1704–bef. 1719 (d.):
Thomas Goodwin • 24 September 1719 – 19 April 1755 (d.):
Henry Ryder • 5 May 1755–bef. 1769 (d.):
Sneyd Davies • 3 February 1769 – 28 February 1795 (d.):
Henry Egerton • 10 March 1795 – 25 April 1809 (d.):
James Falconer • 12 May 1809 – 7 February 1821 (d.):
Edmund Outram • 24 February 1821 – 1836 (res.):
Samuel Butler • 9 September 1836 – 5 May 1840 (res.):
Francis Hodgson • 30 December 1840 – 1847 (res.):
Walter Shirley • 11 January 1847 – 18 April 1873 (res.):
Thomas Hill Late modern :
The archdeaconry of Derby became part of the Southwell diocese on 5 February 1884. • 1873–29 November 1891 (d.):
Edward Balston • 1891–1900 (res.):
Henry Freer • 1900–1909 (res.):
Edward Were :
From 7 July 1927, the archdeaconry of Derby was in the Diocese of Derby. • 1909–1943 (ret.):
Edward Noakes (afterwards archdeacon emeritus) • 1943–1952 (ret.):
Henry FitzHerbert (afterwards archdeacon emeritus) • 1952–1973 (ret.):
John Richardson (afterwards archdeacon emeritus) • 1973–1992 (ret.):
Robert Dell (afterwards archdeacon emeritus) • 1993–2005 (ret.):
Ian Gatford • 29 April 200631 December 2020 (ret.):
Christopher Cunliffe • 1 January 20212022 (acting): Peter Walley :
The Archdeaconry of Derby was dissolved on 6 June 2022. ==Archdeacons of Chesterfield==