Rectors of St Mary the Virgin, Eccleston

List of Known Rectors

1260 John de Attilgre
1292  Mr. Richard
May 16, 1299 William de Lancaster
Mar 5, 1310 Ralph de Tunstall
Oct 22, 1319 Richard de Wamberge
July 22, 1320 Nicholas de Sheppey
May 28, 1321 John de Ellerker
June 27, 1322 John Travers
Dec 31, 1334 Peter Giles
Oct 8, 1337 Henry de Haycock
Dec 13, 1369 William de Hexham
Aug 3, 1399 Thomas de Langton

Jun 14, 1401 John Thoralby
Apr 23, 1408 George Radcliffe
Jun 22,1430 John Mapleton
Aug ?, 1430 Hugh Huyton
May 4, 1463 Edward Mascy
Mar 28, 1467 Roger Standish
July 6, 1478 Gilbert Shirlacres
Feb 10, 1481-2 James Stanley
Aug 12, 1485 Ralph Blacklache

Aug ?, 1493 William Wall
Apr 10, 1511 Peter Bradshaw
May 19, 1541 Richard Layton
Jul 10, 1544 John Moody
1562-3 Gilbert Towneley
Jun 15, 1601 Adam Rigby
Nov 21, 1627 Edward Brouncker
Feb 6, 1628-9 Richard Parr
1644 Edward Gee (also Nov 23, 1648)
Sept 6, 1660 Thomas Mallory
Jan 3, 1671-2 Robert Pickering
Apr 19, 1704 James Egerton
Nov 23, 1706 John Mercer
Dec 30, 1736 John Pearson
Mar 17, 1740-1 John Douglas
Jun 11, 1766 Thomas Walker
Jun 19, 1770 Thomas Whitehead
Jun 17, 1812 William Yates
1854 John Sparling
1883 Humphrey William Bretherton
1911 Thomas Arthur Walton MA
1919 Humphrey Bretherton MA
1958 Richard Dolben Bretherton BA
1979 Peter George Aspden BA
1994 Fr Andrew McMichael
1999  Fr Iain Templeton SSC
2009  Priest in Charge: Reverend Jayne Ward

2013 Priest in Charge: Fr Andrew Brown BA

2019 Fr Andrew Brown BA

2024 Fr Jordan McDermott BMus BA