Rectors of Dauntsey Church

Taken from the Rectors List on display in the church, and updated

Dates	Name	Notes
1297	John de Hulle	John de Hulle was instituted before the year 1297 but dates before that time are not recoverable
1303	Walter de Colshulle	Made Archdeacon of Wiltshire in the same year.
1303	Peter de Colshulle
1323	Nicholas Walrand
1326	Thomas de Daunteseye
1332	Robert de Daunteseye
1347	Peter de Daunteseye
1360	Robert Gerethorp
1376	Nicholas Perkyn
1379	Richard Scut
1393	Nicholas Steere
1405	William Cervyngton
1418	Walter Leye
1420	John Fairest
1432	William Bristow
1465	John Jonys
1503	John Danyell
1508	Richard Walker
1517	John Gardyner
1547	John Robynson
1611	Elias Woodroofe
1642	Richard Chessire
1659	Robert Davenant	Actual date in institution is uncertain as the Bishop’s Register is deficient from 1648 to 1660
1674	William Clement
1712	Lawrence Brodrick
1713	Joseph Trapp
1722	Peter Rival
1730	Thomas Burgess
1750	Robert Atkins
1757	Francis Marias West
1800	George Bissett
1824	George Augustus Biedermann
1859	William Edward Elwell
1875	Arthur Law
1915	Arthur Robert Law
1924	William Henry Tozer
1938	Thomas Curgenven Robinson
1956-1961	Vacant
1961	Godfrey Charles Wallis
1972	George Edward Boocock
1974	Christopher Lang Sutch
1987 – 2012	Derek Ormston	Also Chaplain to New College Swindon, retired 2012. Doom Board restored during his incumbency
2014 – present	Stephen Wilkinson	BEng, DipTh, Ridley Hall Cambridge. Initially Priest-in-Charge. First Rector of the Woodbridge Benefice (Dauntsey. Brinkworth, Garsdon, Great Somerford, Little Somerford, Lea) from 2016

Notes: – The Bishops’ Register is lost from 1584 to 1591 and from 1597 to 1598. – The above dates were extracted from the Bishop’s Register of the Diocese of Sarum (Salisbury) with the exception of the later ones which are to be found in the Parish Registers.