Morden

Rectors

Until the late 1500s, the patron of Morden was the Abbess of Canons' Leigh. For the next four centuries, the patron was the Erle-Drax family.

 

????-1343; Nicholas Hele

1343-1348; William de Tayngnemuth

1348-1349; Nicholas de Stokton

1349-1382; John le Couk

1382-1394; Raymund Peytesin

1394-1425; John Sampson

1425-1435; John Uphill

1435-1455; John Drynkwater

1455-1475; Robert Bursy

1475-1478; William Holcomb

1478-????; Richard Fulbroke

????-1506; John Hooper

1506-1508; Thomas Lyneham

1508-1547; John Hooper

1547-1579; Robert Winter

1579-????; Nicholas Wiltshire

[1586-????; John Elford, Rector of Charborough]

????-1654; Nevil Drant

Rectories of Morden and Charborough combined under Drant

1655-1657; Edward Bennet

1657-1663; unknown

1663-1678; unknown Row

1678-1695; Robert Swain

1695-1719; John Conant

1719-1737; Thomas Kellow, also Rector of Langton in Purbeck

1737-1744; John Loop

1744-1755; John Tomkinson

1755-1792; William Becket

1793-????; Robert Grosvenor, also Rector of Almer

????-1841; Charles Bowles

1841-1853; Alfred Tooke

1853-????; Thomas Pearce, also Deputy Grand Master of Dorset Freemasons

 

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