High Medieval • bef. 1140–?:
John de Bradelgehe • bef. 1143–aft. 1143: Hugh de Avigo • bef. –aft. :
Ascelinus • bef. 1161–aft. 1184:
Baldwin of Forde (later
Archbishop of Canterbury) • bef. 1161–aft. 1184:
Robert • ?–3 June 1190 (d.):
Bernard • aft. 1190–?: John Fitz-John • bef. 1206–aft. 1206: Gilbert Basset • bef. 1207–aft. 1207:
Walter de Grey • bef. 1207–aft. 1207:
John de Bridport • 1213–aft. 1215:
Thomas de Boues • bef. 1219–aft. 1219:
Richard Cowe •
Hugh • bef. 1225–aft. 1225: Ysaac • bef. 1226–bef. 1228:
John de Kent • bef. 1228–1231 (res.):
Roger de Wynkleigh (became
Dean of Exeter) • bef. 1238–aft. 1254:
Thomas Pincerna (
aka Thomas Butler) • bef. 1258–20 February 1258 (d.): John • bef. 1262–aft. 1262: Geoffrey • 11 January 1264–bef. 1265:
William de Pembroke (previously
Archdeacon of Barum) • 1 November 1265–bef. 1271:
Richard Blunt (previously Archdeacon of Barum) • 11 January 1271–aft. 1273:
Thomas de Hertford (also
Archdeacon of Barnstaple) • 25 December 1275 – 8 July 1284 (res.):
Henry de Bolleghe (became
Archdeacon of Cornwall) • 8 July 1284 – 1296 (d.):
Thomas de Bodham (
aka William Bodringham) • bef. 1297–aft. 1297: Roger le Rous
Late Medieval • bef. 1302–aft. 1302:
Thomas de Charlton • bef. 1303–1307 (d.):
William de Puntyngdon • bef. 1307–1338 (d.):
Roger de Charlton •
Period of dispute: •
Northwode et al.: • 13 June 1338 – 1349 (d.):
John de Northwode (disputed with Piers) • 1349–20 June 1359 (exch.):
Peter de Gildesburgh (disputed with Swinnerton) • 20 June 1359 – 18 May 1371 (exch.):
William Steele (disputed with Drax) • 18 May 1371 – 7 May 1385 (exch.): Hugh de Bridham •
Piers et al.: • 1342–1344 (d.):
John Piers (disputed with Northwode) • 1357–?:
Richard de Swinnerton (disputed with Gildesburgh) • 1359–1361 (d.):
Richard de Drax (disputed with Steele) • 1372:
Richard Desbunton (disputed with Bridham) • 1385–1407 (d.):
John Lydford • 21 January 1408 – 29 May 1415 (exch.):
William Hunden • 29 May 1415 – 1421 (d.):
William Barton • 3 November 1421 – 16 July 1433 (exch.):
John Typhane • 16 July 1433 – 1443 (d.):
Alan Kirketon • 16 August 1443 – 1453 (res.):
John Burneby • 4 June 1453–bef. 1469:
Thomas Manning • bef. 1469–1478 (d.):
Thomas Chippenham • 15 February–October 1478 (d.):
Owen Lord • bef. 1479–aft. 1482:
William Wagott • "late fifteenth c.":
Patrick Haliburton • 26 March 1491 – 1499 (d.):
Edmund Chaderton,
Archdeacon of Salisbury (also
Archdeacon of Chester from 1493; possibly the
Archdeacon of Salisbury) • 1499–25 November 1499 (d.):
Ralph Heathcott • 15 March 1500 – 18 April 1515 (res.):
John Fulford (became
Archdeacon of Cornwall) • 13 May 1515–bef. 1534 (d.):
Richard Sydnor (also Registrar of
the Garter) • 28 April 1534–bef. 1549 (res.):
George Carew (later
Dean of Bristol)
Early modern • 10 August 1549–?:
William Collumpton (last prior of
St Nicholas Priory, and called
Bishop of Hippo) • ?–24 July 1557 (d.):
William Fawell (possibly an alias of Collumpton) • 2 March 1558–?:
John Pollard • ?–1561 (d.):
Thomas Kent • 21 February 1562–?:
Robert Lougher (later MP for
Pembroke 1572) • 5 June 1568 – 1580 (d.):
Oliver Whiddon • 24 November 1580– (d.):
John Cole • 12 February 1584:
Lewis Swete • 22 September 1613 – 30 October 1616 (res.):
William Parker (became
Archdeacon of Cornwall) • 30 October 1616 – 20 January 1620 (d.):
Jasper Swift (previously Archdeacon of Cornwall) • 17 March 1620–? (res.):
William Cotton • 10 February 1622 – 1647 (d.):
Edward Cotton • 31 August 1660 – 27 August 1693 (d.):
Francis Fullwood • 1693–1 May 1694 (res.):
Sir Jonathan Trelawney,
Bishop of Exeter (
in commendam) • 18 May 1694 – 14 January 1701 (d.):
George Snell • 18 January 1701 – 1713 (res.):
Francis Atterbury (became
Bishop of Rochester) • 28 July 1713 – 3 March 1740 (d.):
Nicholas Kendall • 26 March 1740 – 28 January 1772 (d.):
George Baker • 10 March 1772 – 1775 (res.):
Thomas Skynner • 16 August 1775 – 20 May 1820 (d.):
Ralph Barnes • 30 May 1820 – 23 February 1859 (d.):
Robert Froude Late modern • 12 March 1859 – 1872:
John Downall • 3 October 1872 – 1889 (res.):
Alfred Earle (became
Bishop suffragan of Marlborough) • 20 January 1888 – 14 July 1910 (d.):
Charles Wilkinson, Vicar of
Plymouth (until 1901) • 1910–13 January 1921 (d.):
Arthur Simms, Vicar of St Luke's,
Torquay (until 1920) :
On 22 March 1918, the Archdeaconry of Plymouth was erected from Totnes archdeaconry. • 1921–26 October 1933 (d.):
Newton Leeke • 1933–1947 (ret.):
John Lawrence Cobham, Rector of St Mark's Torwood, Torquay (until 1938; afterwards archdeacon emeritus) • 1948–1962 (ret.):
Edgar Hall (afterwards archdeacon emeritus) • 1962–23 August 1965 (d.):
John Hawkins (father of Richard) • 1966–1976 (ret.):
Robert Newhouse (afterwards archdeacon emeritus) • 1976–1981 (ret.):
John Lucas, Vicar of
Chudleigh Knighton (afterwards archdeacon emeritus) • 1981–1988 (res.):
Richard Hawkins, Priest-in-charge,
Whitestone with
Oldridge (until 1987; son of John; became
Bishop suffragan of Plymouth) • 1988–1994 (res.):
Tony Tremlett (became
Archdeacon of Exeter) • 1996–2005 (ret.):
Richard Gilpin (afterwards archdeacon emeritus) • 2005–30 September 2014 (ret.):
John Rawlings • 1 September 2014 – 2015:
Clive Cohen (Acting) • 24 March 2015–present:
Douglas Dettmer ==References==