Patrons
of Purley
(note in this list the names of those who are known to have
exercised the patronage are indicated by **, those who held the office when an
appointment was made are marked *) Prior to the mid 14th century it is believed
that the patrons were the Lords of the Manor of Purley
Magna.
Lords of the Manor of Purley
Magna
1066 Brictward
for King Edward
1086 Roger son of Siegfried
1166 Gilbert Huscarle
1176 Richard Huscarle
1199-1212 Roland Huscarle
1212- Thomas Huscarle
(Roland's son)
1235 William Huscarle
1307 Roland Huscarle
1313 Thomas Huscarle
(Roland's son)
Sir Thomas Huscarle
(Thomas's son)
1354 Lucy Huscarle
(Thomas's widow)
By
at least 1361 the patronage had been transeferred to the
Priors of the
1269-1285? Nicholas de Sancte
Quintino ?
-
1313 William de Saundford
1313-1322? Richard de Hertyngg
1334?-1335 Adam de Northover
1335-1351 Peter de Wymbourn
1351-1361? John de Arnhale
**
1361?-1368? Walter Childenham
1375-1378 William David
1378-1395 Adam Charles **
1395-1407 Robert Ragenhill**
1413?-1414? Robert Bussch
**
1416-1428 John Conge
1428-1445 William Spaldyngton**
1445-1454 John Pyville
1454-1458 William Osgoodby
1458-1460 John Lax
1463? Peter Courtenay *
1466? Francis de Salviatis
1487?-1506 William Elliott *
1506-? Christopher Twynhoo
1509-? Edmund Powell
1534-1537 Thomas Thurlby
1537-1543 John Gough*
The college was dissolved in 1543 and its assets including the patronage
of Purley was sold to William St Barbe
The
College was appropriated in 1546 by Henry VIII and the patronage came to the
crown
Kings and
1509-1547 Henry VIII
1547-1553Edward VI
1553 Jane
1553-1558 Mary I**
1558-1603 Elizabeth I*
1603-1625 James I *
1625-1649 Charles I
1649-1660
Commonwealth *
During
the Commonwealth Period the Patronage
was
exercised by a Commission of State
1660-1685 Charles II *
1685-1689 James II
1689-1702 William I & Mary II
1702-1714 Anne
1714-1727 George I*
1727-1760 George II*
1760-1820 George III *
1820-1830 William IV
In
1822 the patronage was passed to the Lord Chancellor.
Lord Chancellors of
1820-1827 John Scott, Lord Eldon
1827-1830 John Singleton Copley,
Lord Lyndhurst
1830-1834 Henry Brougham, Lord
Brougham and Vaux
1834-1835 Lord Lyndhurst *
1836-1841 Sir Charles Christopher Pepys, Lord Cottenham
1841-1846 Lord Lyndhurst *
1846-1850 Lord Cottenham
1850-1852 Sir Thomas Wilde, Lord
Truro
1852 Sir Edward Burtenshaw
Sugden, Lord St Leonards
1852-1858 Robert Monsey Rolfe, Lord Cranworth
1858-1859 Sir Frederick Thesinger, Lord Chelmsford
1859-1861 John Campbell, Lord
Campbell
1861-1865 Sir Richard Bethell, Lord Westbury
1865-1866 Lord Cranworth
1866-1868 Lord Chelmsford
1868 Hugh McCalmont
1868-1872 Sir William Page Wood,
Lord Hatherley
1872-1874 Roundell
Palmer, Lord Selborne
1874-1880 Lord Cairns *
1880-1885 Lord Selborne
*
1885-1886 Sir Hardinge
Stanley Giffard, Lord Halsbury
1886 Sir Farrer
Herschell, Lord Herschell
1886-1892 Lord Halsbury
1892-1895 Lord Herschell
1895-1905 Lord Halsbury
*
1905-1912 Sir Robert Threshie Reid, Lord Loreburn
1912-1915 Richard Burdon Haldane, Lord Haldane *
1915-1916 Sir Stanley Owen Buckmaster, Lord Buckmaster *
1916-1919 Sir Robert Bannatyne Finlay, Lord Finlay
1919-1922 Sir Frederick Edwin Smith,
Lord Birkenhead
1922-1924 George Cave,
1924 Lord Haldane
*
1924-1928 Lord Cave
1928-1929 Sir Douglas McGarel Hogg, Lord Hailsham
1929-1935 Sir John Sankey, Lord Sankey *
1935-1938 Lord Hailsham
1938-1939 Frederick Herbert Maugham,
Lord Maugham
1939-1940 Lord Caldecote
1940-1945 Lord Simon
1945-1951 Lord Jowitt
1951 Lord Simonds
Lord Kilmuir
-1964 Reginald
Edward Manningham Buller, Lord Dilhorne
1964-1970 Lord Gardiner
1970-1974 Quintin
Hogg, Lord Hailsham
1974-1979 Lord Elwyn
Jones *
1979-1987 Lord Hailsham
1987 Sir Michael Havers,
Lord Havers
1987- Lord
Mackay of Clashfern **
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