Previous Clergy

Historical Clergy

Below is a list of the clergy that were recorded as Ministers at St Leonard’s.
The entries prior to 1859 were extracted from the British History Online.

Old Langho Church 1557 to 1859

1724	William Knowles, BA (Sidney-Sussex Coll., Camb.)
1746	Christopher Whitwell
1750	Robert Smith, BA
1754	Joseph Thomson
1756	Thomas Elleray
1773	Barton Shuttleworth, BA
1794	William Barton, BA (Sidney-Sussex Coll., Camb.)
1803	James Barnes
1803	George Wearing
1814	Thomas Henry Backhouse, BA (Pembroke Coll., Camb.)
1822	John Rushton
1828	Robert Nowell Whitaker, MA (St. John’s Coll., Camb.)
1840	Charles Arnold Chew, MA
1841	Thomas Dent
1845	Jonathan Beilby
1845	John Fayrer Coates, BA (St. Cath. Coll., Camb.)

St Leonard’s Langho Church 1859 to date

1859	Dudley Hart,
1868	Matthew Hedley
1895	Frederick George Chevassut
1901	John Fleming French
1934	Dennis W Holt
1939	Herbert Townsend
1962	Richard Kirham
1971	Philip H Dearden
1978	Paul Warren BA, MA
1984	Quentin Wilson BD, MA
1998	Stephen Cooper
2003	David Noblett
2012	Andrew Malcolm BA, MSC, MRes
2016	Tracy Jane Swindells BA, MA, PGCE