List of chaplains of the Levant Company

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The Levant Company, an English chartered company formed in 1581, employed chaplains in some cities of the Eastern Mediterranean.

Source: List of British Consular Officials in Turkey (1581-1860) (PDF).

Chaplains at Aleppo

  • 1597-1600 ? Maye
  • 1600–1608 William Biddulph
  • 1624–1630 Charles Robson
  • 1630–1635 Edward Pococke
  • 1636 -? Thomas Pritchett
  • 1641–1645 Bartholemew Chapple
  • 1650-1654 Nathaniel Hill
  • 1655–1670 Robert Frampton
  • 1671–1681 Robert Huntington
  • 1681-1687 John Guise
  • 1688–1694 William Hallifax
  • 1695–1701 Henry Maundrell
  • 1701-1703 Henry Brydges
  • 1703-1706 Harrington Yarborough
  • 1706–1716 Thomas Owen
  • 1716–1719 Samuel Lisle
  • 1719-? Joseph Soley
  • 1729–1742 Edward Edwards
  • 1743-1748 John Hemming
  • 1750-1753 Thomas Crofts
  • 1756-1758 Charles Holloway
  • 1758–1769 Thomas Dawes
  • 1769–1770 Eleazar Edwards
  • 1770–1778 Robert Foster
  • 1779 John Hussey
  • 1783 Post abolished

Chaplains at Constantinople

Chaplains at Smyrna

  • 1635, arrived 1636 Thomas Curtis
  • 1652 Eleazar Duncon
  • 1653 Thomas Browne
  • To c.1654 Hales
  • 1654, arrived 1655 Robert Winchester
  • 1661 Clarke
  • 1663–1664 John Broadgate
  • 1664–1669 John Luke
  • 1670–1673 Philip Traherne
  • 1673–1683 John Luke again
  • 1689–1693 Edward Smyth
  • 1698–1702 Edmund Chishull
  • 1702–1710 John Tisser
  • 1710–1716 Samuel Lisle
  • 1759 Philip Brown
  • 1789-1807 John Frederick Usko
  • 1811–1814 George Cecil Renouard
  • 1817–1820 Charles Williamson
  • 1822–c.1836
    Francis Vyvyan Jago Arundell
  • 1840 onwards William Bucknor Lewis

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