St Clement Danes
Rectors of St Clement Danes
Rectors of St Clement Danes
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John Diprose's history of St Clement Danes gives a list of rectors since 1325\.

* 1540–1557† [John Rixman](/wiki/John_Rixman "John Rixman") (also Archdeacon of Cornwall)
* 1557–1559† [Ralph Jackson](/wiki/Ralph_Jackson_%28priest%29 "Ralph Jackson (priest)")
* 1559–1589† [William Harward](/wiki/William_Harward "William Harward")
* 1589–1602† Richard Webster (also Archdeacon of Middlesex)
* 1602–1617† [John Layfield](/wiki/John_Layfield_%28theologian%29 "John Layfield (theologian)")
* 1617–1634† Roger Bates
* 1634–1678† Richard Dukeson (sequestered in 1643, his place taken by Daniel Evans, [Richard Vines](/wiki/Richard_Vines_%28priest%29 "Richard Vines (priest)"), and George Masterson; Dukeson was restored in 1660)
* 1678–1708† [Gregory Hascard](/wiki/Gregory_Hascard "Gregory Hascard") (also Dean of Windsor from 1684\)
* 1708–1719† William Forster
* 1720–1721 Thomas Blomer
* 1721–1773† Thomas Blackwell
* 1773–1786† John Burrows
* 1786–1795† George Berkeley (son of [Bishop Berkeley](/wiki/George_Berkeley "George Berkeley"), husband of [Eliza Berkeley](/wiki/Eliza_Berkeley "Eliza Berkeley"))
* 1795–1807 Henry Garrioch Vernon
* 1807–1843† William Gurney
* 1843–1855 [William Webb Ellis](/wiki/William_Webb_Ellis "William Webb Ellis")
* 1855–1860 Skinner Chart Mason
* 1860–1869 Richard Henry Killick
* 1869–1879 Robert James Simpson
* 1879–1887 John Lindsay
* 1887–1889 George Sutton Flack
* 1889–1910† J. J. H. Septimus Pennington (surnamed Sparrow until 1886\)
* 1910–1941† William Pennington Bickford (son\-in\-law of Septimus Pennington)

† *Rector died in post*


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