archdeacon of Northampton
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The Archdeacon of Northampton is a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Diocese of Peterborough. As such she or he is responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy Meakin, T. ABCD: a basic church dictionary. Norwich, Canterbury Press, 2001 {{ISBN|978-1-85311-420-5}} ([https://books.google.com/books?id=7M0xYV79jRcC&pg=PA50 Google Books, p. 50], accessed 23 May 2014) within its six rural deaneries: Brackley, Brixworth, Daventry, Greater Northampton, Towcester and Wellingborough.Crockford's on line accessed Monday 5 December 2011 7:32 GMT The incumbent is Richard Ormston, who took up his position in February 2014.[http://www.peterborough-diocese.org.uk/people/archdeacons The Diocese of Peterborough – Archdeacon] (Accessed 23 May 2014)
History
This is a list of archdeacons of Northampton, historically a post in the Diocese of Lincoln, and then in the Diocese of Peterborough from that diocese's creation on 4 September 1541.
List of archdeacons
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=High Medieval=
- bef. 1092–bef. 1123: Nigel (first archdeacon)
- bef. 1123–aft. 1132: Robert
- bef. 1133–9 February 1169 (d.): William
- bef. 1174–1175: Herbert Poore
- 1175–aft. 1187: Savaric FitzGeldewin
- bef. 1194–aft. 1198: Wimar (Winemer)
- bef. 1200–aft. 1203: Richard of Kent
- bef. 1206–aft. 1231: Robert de Manecestre (i.e. of Manchester)
- bef. 1231–1246 (d.): John de Houton
- bef. 1247–20 November 1272 (d.): Giles le Rous (Rufus)
- bef. 1273–1280 (res.): Richard Gravesend
- bef. 1280–bef. 1291 (d.): Stephen of Sutton
- 9 January 1291–bef. 1316 (d.): Thomas of Sutton
=Late Medieval=
- 8 June 1316–bef. 1331 (d.): Gilbert Middleton
- Opposed (ineffectually) by claimants:
- 1317 (d.): Thomas Grandison
- 1317: Gauscelin Cardinal de Jean (Cardinal-priest of Santi Marcellino e Pietro)
- 6 January–1 March 1331 (disp.): Richard Bury d'Aungerville (displaced)
- 1 March 1331 – 14 April 1335 (d.): Peter Cardinal de Mortemart (Cardinal-priest of Santo Stefano al Monte Celio)
- 15 September 1335 – 20 November 1348 (d.): John Raymond Cardinal de Comminges (Cardinal-bishop of Porto)
- 1349–bef. 1351 (res.): Roger Neucroft
- ?–bef. 1351 (res.): John Gynwell
- 27 February 1351 – 1363 (res.): John Bokyngham
- 26 April–23 May 1363 (res.): William of Wykeham
- 14 June 1363 – 1371/2 (d.): William Askeby/Scoter
- 21 December 1371 – 1373 (res.): Henry Wakefield (elected Bishop of Ely, but set aside)
- bef. 1374–April 1379 (d.): Henry Piel
- bef. 1381–aft. 1381: Walter Skirlaw
- 23 February–March 1386 (res.): Henry Bowet
- 23 March 1386–bef. 1402 (d.): Thomas Butiller
- 14 July 1402–bef. 1403 (res.): Thomas Bekingham
- 4 June 1403 – 1413 (res.): Richard Courtenay
- The Bishop of Rome (then Pope Gregory XII) reserved the archdeaconry for John Bremor in 1413, but Bremor evidently did not obtain possession.
- 6 April 1413–?: John Stone
- 10 July 1419 – 1431 (res.): Robert FitzHugh
- 4 August 1431 – 9 April 1434 (d.): Ardicino Cardinal della Porta (seniore) (Cardinal-deacon of Santi Cosma e Damiano)
- 16 May 1434 – 1454 (res.): William Grey
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- 17 August 1454–bef. 1457 (res.): George Neville
- 19 August 1457 – 1464 (res.): John Chadworth
- 23 August 1464–bef. 1468 (d.): William Say
- 27 November 1468 – 1471 (res.): John Rudying
- 6 August 1471–bef. 1482 (d.): John Collinson
- 24 March 1482–bef. 1500 (d.): Peter Huse or Busy
- 4 January 1500 – 1506 (res.): William Smith
- 26 August 1506–bef. 1548 (res.): Gilbert Smith
=Early modern=
:On 4 September 1541, Northampton archdeaconry became part of the new Diocese of Peterborough.
- 28 May 1548–March 1549 (d.): John Apharry (ap Harry, Parry)
- 30 March 1549 – 1554 (res.): William Geffre
- bef. 1558–bef. 1571 (d.): William Binsley
- bef. 1579–bef. 1587 (d.): Nicholas Sheppard
- 12 November 1587–April 1598 (d.): James Howland
- bef. 1598–bef. 1604 (res.): William Bayly
- 23 March 1604 – 1611 (res.): John Buckeridge
- 9 July 1611–bef. 1612 (d.): Richard Butler
- 26 September 1612 – 24 July 1629 (d.): Thomas Dove, yr
- 31 July 1629–bef. 1665 (d.): John Quarles
- 25 October 1665 – 9 December 1679 (d.): John Palmer
- 4 January 1680 – 29 November 1707 (d.): Thomas Wolsey
- 12 December 1707 – 24 December 1737 (d.): Richard Cumberland
- 13 January 1738 – 7 August 1764 (d.): John Browne
- 6 September 1764 – 17 November 1797 (d.): William Brown
- 1 December 1797 – 8 September 1842 (d.): William Strong
- 15 September 1842 – 7 February 1875 (d.): Owen Davys
=Late modern=
- 1875–1911 (res.): Francis Thicknesse (also Bishop suffragan of Leicester, 1888–1902){{Who's Who
| title=Thicknesse, Francis Henry
| id = U203732
| type = was
| volume = 1920–2014
| edition = April 2014 online
| access-date = 27 May 2014
}}
- 1911–1919 (res.): Holden Hutton{{Who's Who
| title=Hutton, William Holden
| id = U211714
| type = was
| volume = 1920–2014
| edition = April 2014 online
| access-date = 27 May 2014
}}
- 1919–1936 (res.): Norman Lang (also Bishop suffragan of Leicester until 1927; Assistant Bishop of Peterborough thereafter){{Who's Who
| title=Lang, Norman Macleod
| id = U239639
| type = was
| volume = 1920–2014
| edition = April 2014 online
| access-date = 27 May 2014
}}
- 1936–1941 (res.): Carey Knyvett{{Who's Who
| title=Knyvett, Carey Frederick
| id = U55425
| type = was
| volume = 1920–2014
| edition = April 2014 online
| access-date = 27 May 2014
}}
- 1941–1959 (ret.): John Grimes (afterwards archdeacon emeritus){{Who's Who
| title=Grimes, (Cecil) John
| id = U155112
| type = was
| volume = 1920–2014
| edition = April 2014 online
| access-date = 27 May 2014
}}
- 1959–1964 (res.): Ronald Goodchild{{Who's Who
| title=Goodchild, Ronald Cedric Osbourne
| id = U248850
| type = was
| volume = 1920–2014
| edition = April 2014 online
| access-date = 27 May 2014
}}
- 1964–1991 (ret.): Bazil Marsh (afterwards archdeacon emeritus){{Who's Who
| title=Marsh, Bazil Roland
| id = U180300
| type = was
| volume = 1920–2014
| edition = April 2014 online
| access-date = 27 May 2014
}}
- 1991–2004 (ret.): Michael Chapman{{Who's Who
| title=Chapman, Michael Robin
| id = U10637
| volume = 2014
| edition = December 2013 online
| access-date = 27 May 2014
}}
- 2005–2013 (ret.): Christine Allsopp[https://web.archive.org/web/20120712220318/http://www.peterborough-diocese.org.uk/people/archnorthampton.htm The Diocese of Peterborough – Archdeacon of Northampton (Archived 12 July 2012]; accessed 23 May 2014) (afterwards archdeacon emeritus){{Who's Who
| title=Allsopp, Christine
| id = U44988
| volume = 2014
| edition = December 2013 online
| access-date = 27 May 2014
}}
- 2014–present: Richard Ormston{{cite web|url=http://www.peterborough-diocese.org.uk/news-and-events/news/post/127-new-archdeacon-of-northampton-appointed|title=New Archdeacon of Northampton appointed|publisher=Diocese of Peterborough|access-date=23 November 2013|archive-date=1 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180701030523/https://www.peterborough-diocese.org.uk/news-and-events/news/post/127-new-archdeacon-of-northampton-appointed|url-status=dead}}{{Crockford
| surname = Ormston
| forenames = Richard Jeremy
| id = 26138
| accessed = 30 November 2015
}}
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References
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Sources
- {{Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae |last=Greenaway |first=Diana E. |period=1066–1300 |volume=3 |pages=30–32}}
- {{Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae |last=King |first=H.P.F. |period=1300–1541 |volume=1 |pages=10–12}}
- {{Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae |last=Horn |first=Joyce M. |last2=Smith |first2=David M. |period=1541–1857 |volume=9 |page=20}}
- {{Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae |last=Horn |first=Joyce M. |period=1541–1857 |volume=8 |pages=122–123}}
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