Robert de Wytham (Mayor of Wytham 1086)
Robert de Clifford (Rector in 1232) from a family in Shrivenham
Drogo de Turberville came from a family resident in East Hendred
Almaric de Plessis (He of the knight’s fees)
William de Braybroke (Rector 1293 -1320
Richard de Pye (Entered Exeter College 1326 Died in 1355)
John Berford (Chaplain of Exeter College undertook the Long Wittenham duties between the death of Richard de Pye and the institution of the first vicar in the autumn of 1355)
How thin the paper of history is
It is delicate to the touch
And inhibits study
John Foliot (The first vicar of Long Wittenham vacated on the 7th of March 1361)
John de Brendon (Born 1305 instituted by the Bishop of Sarum on the 9th of April 1361)
John More (Mentioned in the Computi of the Rector of Exeter College from 1381 till 1398)
John Yeate (1420 vacated 1424)
John Shepherd (1434)
John Baker (1462 died 1487)
The Six John’s how perfect in number they are
William (Chaplain 1487)
William Wellys (1505)
Richard Northcot (Appointed vicar 1511)
John Conner (Came from Cornwall appointed c 1540 died 1569)
John Best (Resigned 1607)
Richard Raynolds (The Great Pluralist)
William Prouse (Vicar of Long Wittenham 1617-1645)
What confusion there is
Is this God’s humour
Or man’s folly?
Brian Holland (Presented 1644-45 he died in Long Wittenham)
It is said that his silver coffin plate and false teeth were found in the churchyard in 1850
There are humours to be found
Forgive my jest Brian
John Bickle (Instituted 1672 vacated 1685 his wife Ann in buried in the chancel of the church)
Thomas Farr (Vicar 1686 to 1722 all of his six children were wild and extravagant)
Poor Thomas
Six is such a Perfect Number
George Stubbes (Another Pluralist)
Ralph Bridcoacke (Vicar 1740-1749)
Robert Speed (Vicar 1749-1765)
William Tonkin (Vicar 1765-1771)
Francis Upton (Vicar 1771-1778)
Sampson Newbury (Vicar 1778-1785)
What a wonderful name
I would have liked to have met him
John Sarraude (Vicar 1785-1788)
Henry Richards (Vicar 1788-1794)
Stephen George Francis Triboudet Demainbray (Of Huguenot extraction)
Stephen was vicar between 1794 and 1799 he succeeded his father as Astronomer Royal
Please forgive my unwanted excursion
Thomas Smyth Glubb (Vicar 1799- 1823)
Thomas’s accounts were disorderly
Peter Johnson (Vicar 1823-1825)
Robert Bateman Paul (Vicar 1826 – 1829)
Robert rebuilt the Vicarage
James Charles Clutterbuck (Vicar 1830-1885)
A long serving and devoted man
Evelyn Gilborne Hodgson (Vicar 1885-1887)
Edward Ilbert Crosse (Vicar 1887-1890)
Thomas John Puckle (Vicar 1890 – 1896)
Edward Richard Gardiner (Vicar 1896 1902)
Edward died at Long Wittenham on the 1st of September 1902 and is buried there
Let not summer end with the passing of the month
Thomas Daniel Hopkyns (Vicar 1903-1925)
Hubert Cecil Roberts (Born in Bombay in 1888 instituted at Long Wittenham on the 29th of December 1925
And this is where my story ends
My vintage book does not disclose more
Thank you for your company on this journey