The pdf below gives brief biographies of all the known vicars of St Mary’s Church, Bridgwater. This list was compiled by Jonathan Conibere and Frances Pearce.
THE VICARS OF BRIDGWATER
- RALPH THE CLERK OF BRUGES c.1170
- JAMES (no date)
- WILLIAM (no date)
- RICHARD (no date)
- WALTER DE STOCKLINCH c1296
- WALTERUS c1309-1316
- JOHN PARYS c1316-1340
- JOHN TORREBRIAN C1340-1346
- RICHARD OF EXBRIDGE 1348
- JOHN BUTLEIGH c1349
- JOHN COMYN c1377
- WILLIAM HURST c1380
- JOHN CORS c1415
- JOHN COLSWAYN 1423-31
- JOHN COLSWAYN 1431-74
- RICHARD CROKE 1474-98
- THOMAS SPENCER 1498-9
- ROBERT MITCHELL 1499-1520
- JOHN HOOPER 1520-22
- OLIVER SMYTH 1522-28
- THOMAS STRETE 1528-71
- EDWARD CRAFTES 1571-93
- CADWALLADER HUGHES 1593-94
- HENRY WILLS 1594-1605
- JOHN DEVENISH 1605-44
- GEORGE WOTTON 1644-45
- JOHN NORMAN Commonwealth Minister 1647-1662
- GEORGE WOTTON 1661-69
- WILLIAM ALLEN 1669-1720
- BENJAMIN BULKELEY 1720-1723
- LAURENCE PAYNE 1723-1732
- MOSES WILLIAMS 1732-1742
- JOHN COLES 1742-1785
- GEORGE ROWLEY 1785
- WILLIAM WOLLEN 1785-1844
- DANIEL NIHILL 1844-1848
- THOMAS GEORGE JAMES 1848-1857
- MICHAEL FERREBEE SADLER 1857-1864
- WILLIAM GEORGE FITZGERALD 1864-1896 (see Friends of the Wembdon Road Cemetery for a full biography)
- HENRY WILLIAM BIRCHAM 1897-1901
- ARTHUR HERBERT POWELL 1901-11
- JOSHUA JAMES LANGHAM 1912-20
- HENRY THOMAS DIXON 1920-23
- SEYMOUR BERRY 1923-30 (also see Friends of the Wembdon Road Cemetery)
- EDWARD HUGHES-DAVIES 1931-59
- LEWIS CARL SWAN 1959-76
- EDWARD RICHARD AYERST 1977-90
- ROGER PACKER 1990-2000
- CHARLES CHADWICK 2001-2014
- PATRICIA OLLIVE 2015 -2020
- SUSE OSMOND 2021-
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