Archdeacon of Wilts

High Medieval

Some archdeacons without territorial titles are recorded from around the time of the

Archdeacon of Salisbury

.

• bef. 1139–1139: Azo (probably the later Dean of Salisbury)
• bef. 1139–aft. 1157: Roger of Ramsbury
• bef. 1161–1164: Reginald Fitz Jocelin
• bef. 1173–aft. 1173: William
• bef. 1179–aft. 1189: Richard of Wilton
• 1193:
  Archdeacon of Salisbury
  )
• 1193–1198 (res.): William of Sainte-Mère-Église (became Bishop of London)
• bef. 1199–aft. 1222: Richard Grosseteste
• bef. 1223–aft. 1223: William de Merston
• bef. 1226–aft. 1246: Stephen of Tisbury
• bef. 1246–1247 (d.): Roger of Buscot
• 1247–aft. 1257: Nicholas of York
• bef. 1258–aft. 1271: Roger de la Grene
• bef. 1275–aft. 1279: Henry Brandeston (became Archdeacon of Dorset)
• bef. 1283–bef. 1284: Ralph of Leicester
• bef. 1284–aft. 1287: Ralph le Waleys of Brightwell
• aft. 1288–aft. 1296: William of Abingdon
• bef. 1299–1303 (d.): Richard de Sotwell

Late Medieval

• ?–1304 (deprived): Thomas of Savoy
• 25 January 1304–bef. 1320 (d.): William de Chaddleshunt
• bef. 1321–bef. 1326 (d.): Gerald de Tilheto
• 12 March–March 1326 (res.): Iswin de Gandavo
• March 1326 (res.): Robert de Baldock senior
• 27 March 1326 – 1331 (res.): Robert de Ayleston (became Archdeacon of Berkshire)
• 8 August 1331–aft. 1333: Ralph de Querendon
• 10 January 1333 – 30 June 1343 (exch.): John de Whitchurch
• 30 June 1343–bef. 1361 (d.): John Barne
• 26–27 December 1361 (exch.): John Lineden
• 27 December 1361–aft. 1379: John Silvestre or Codeford
• 1388–bef. 1407 (d.): Nicholas Wykeham
• 17 March–21 April 1407 (exch.): William Magot
• 21 April 1407–March 1419: John Chitterne (became Archdeacon of Salisbury)
• 1419–bef. 1423 (d.): John Gaunstede
• 13 October 1423 – 1449 (res.): John Symondesburgh
• 14 August 1449 – 1452 (res.): John Chadworth (became Bishop of Lincoln)
• 8 November 1452–aft. 1454: Marinus Ursinus
• 27 March 1457–bef. 1464 (res.): Vincent Clement
• 10 October 1464 – 1478 (res.): Peter Courtenay (became Bishop of Exeter)
• 1 February 1479–aft. 1485: Hugh Pavy (in commendam as Bishop of St Davids from 1485)
• bef. 1488–bef. 1522 (d.):
  Archdeacon of Richmond (1494–1500), Archdeacon of Norfolk (1500–1522) and Archdeacon of Oxford
  (from 1504))
• 12 May 1522–bef. 1539 (d.): Edward Finch
• 15 January 1539–bef. 1554 (deprived): John Pollard (deprived) (also Archdeacon of Cornwall from 1543, Archdeacon of Barnstaple from 1544)

Early modern

• 1554–bef. 1564 (deprived): John Lawrence (deprived)
• 1564–aft. 1577: Giles Lawrence
• 1577–10 March 1590 (d.): John Sprint
• 1590–7 February 1610 (d.): Edmund Lilly, Master of Balliol
• 7 March 1610–bef. 1614 (d.): Walter Benet
• 15 November 1614–bef. 1646 (d.): Thomas Leche
• 1646–1663: vacant (Commonwealth)
• 6 July 1660 – 19 July 1663 (d.):
  Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford
• 1 August 1663 – 15 December 1674 (d.): Thomas Henchman
• 4 February 1675 – 1681 (res.): Seth Ward
• 15 November 1681 – 1687 (res.): Robert Woodward (later Dean of Salisbury)
• 19 January 1687 – 20 March 1696 (d.): Thomas Ward
• 9 April 1696 – 12 April 1720 (d.): Cornelius Yate
• 26 April 1720 – 1735 (res.): Thomas Rundle (became Bishop of Derry)
• 18 July 1735 – 2 January 1763 (d.): Henry Stebbing
• 20 January 1763–bef. 1768 (res.): Charles Weston
• 22 September 1768–bef. 1779 (d.): Richard Brickenden
• 5 March 1779–February 1799 (d.): Arthur Coham
• 9 March 1799 – 5 May 1804 (res.): William Douglas
• 9 May 1804 – 8 June 1828 (d.): William Coxe
• 14 June 1828 – 24 June 1862 (d.): William Macdonald

Late modern

• 1862–1863: Henry Drury
• 1863–1868:
  Bishop of Gibraltar)^[6]
• 1868–1874: Thomas Stanton^[7]
• 1874–1911 (ret.): Thomas Buchanan, Vicar of Potterne until 1891, then Rector of Poulshot, until 1905^[8]
• 1911–1912 (res.):
  Bishop of Wellington; later Archdeacon of Sherborne)^[9]
• 1912–1927 (res.): Eric Bodington (became Archdeacon of Dorset)^[10]
• 1927–1951 (ret.): Joseph Coulter, Vicar of Calne (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)^[11]
• 1951–1974 (ret.): Cecil Plaxton, Rector of Pewsey until 1965 (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)^[12]
• 1974–1980 (res.):
  Bishop suffragan of Ramsbury^[13]
• 1980–1998 (ret.):
  John Smith, Vicar of Bishops Cannings, All Cannings and Etchilhampton until 1983; Team Vicar, Redhorn from 1990 (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)^[14]
• 1998–2004 (ret.): Barney Hopkinson (previously Archdeacon of Sarum)^[15]
• 2004–2012 (res.): John Wraw (became area Bishop of Bradwell)^[16]
• 2012–2013: Alan Jeans, Archdeacon of Sarum (Acting)
• 28 January 2013–September 2015: Ruth Worsley^[17]
• 22 February 2016–present: Sue Groom^[3]