Vicars and Ministers of Ince.

Vicars and Ministers of Ince

1357 – 1395           Richard le Marischal

1539                       James Whytefeld

1542 – 1551            Ralph Catherall

1555 – 1568          Henry Cowper

1572 – 1579           John Frodsham

1582 – 1589          Thomas Hale

1589 – 1594          Robert Marshall

1596                      John Thomas

1597                       John Hatton

1607 – 1658           John Corfe

1635                       Edward Harrison

1640 – 1650          John Clarke

1651 - 1654            Thomas Gilbert (Assistant)

1658                      John Ashbrooke

1662                       William Bridge

1670                       John Whitter

1690 – 1724           Robert Harrison

                               Robert Tamberlain (non-resident)

                              Robert Lewis M.A

1775 – 1777            Henry Charnley

1777 – 1805           Joseph Harrison

1799                       J Fletcher (Curate)

1806 – 1820          Anthony Benn Church M.A

1820 – 1837           Giles Howarth Peel

1838 – 1842           William Waldergrave Park M.A

1838 – 1840          Thomas Boydell (Curate)

1840 – 1842          James Selkirk (Curate)

1843 – 1852           Evan Evans

1852 – 1867           Clement Charles Sharpe M.A

1867 – 1886          Charles Stewart Upperton M.A

1886 – 1892          Edward Octavius Rawson M.A

1892 – 1905          Edward Charley M.A

1905 – 1907           Frederick Clifton Smith M.A

1908 – 1930           Frederick George Slater M.A

1930 – 1932           James David Pearson B.A

1932 – 1938           John Knight Lomax

1938 – 1939           Joseph Mellor Lloyd M.A

1939 – 1944           Canon Alfred Dixon (Rector of Thornton-le-Moors, acted as Priest-in-Charge)

1944 – 1946           Eric Cynwyd Rees (Rector of Thornton-le-Moors, acted as Priest-in-Charge)

1946 – 1958           Frederick Eve

1958 – 1962           Frank Whatmough (Rector of Thornton-le-Moors, acted as Priest-in-Charge)

1962 – 1968           Albert Brooks (Rector of Thornton-le-Moors, acted as Priest-in-Charge)

1968 – 1975           Oscar Wynn Lloyd M.A (Vicar of Helsby & Ince in United Benefice)

1975 – 1977            Canon Robin Weston Howard M.A (Vicar of Helsby & Ince in United Benefice & Priest-in-Charge of Dunham Hill)

                                  Albert Geoffrey Anderson (Curate)

1977 - New Parish of Thornton-le-Moors with Ince and Elton created

1977                           Canon Robin Weston Howard M.A continued as Priest-in-Charge

1978 – 1990              Philip Michael Bishop M.A.A.K.C

1990 -  1995             John Francis Hudghton B.A Cert. Theol.

1996 – 2006             Kenneth W. Davey (Priest-in-Charge)

2007 - 2014              Margaret Fletcher (Vicar)

2015 - 2020              Ruth Ackroyd (Vicar)

2021 - John Hellewell