Archdeacon of Derby

The Archdeacon of Derby is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the Church of England Diocese of Derby. The archdeacon has responsibility for church buildings and clergy discipline in her/his archdeaconry – the Archdeaconry of Derby – which roughly covers the southern half of Derbyshire.

History

The first mentions of an archdeacon in the area occurred in the twelfth century – around the time when archdeacons' posts were first being created across England. From that earliest point until the Victorian reorganisations of church structures, the archdeaconry was in the Diocese of Lichfield (which during those seven centuries was called Coventry, Coventry & Lichfield, Lichfield & Coventry and Lichfield). The archdeaconry, at that point covering the whole county of Derby, was transferred by Order in Council to the new Diocese of Southwell on 5 February 1884[1] and then split on 18 October 1910 – creating the Chesterfield archdeaconry – such that it now covers roughly the southern half of Derbyshire.[2] On 7 July 1927, the Diocese of Derby was created from the two Southwell archdeaconries of Derby and of Chesterfield.[3]

List of archdeacons

High Medieval bef. 1139–aft. 1140: G. c. 1146: Richard (disputed) c. 1155–aft. 1167: Froger[N 1] c. 1175: N. c. 1171–aft. 1182: Godfrey de Luci bef. 1191–aft. 1191: Yvo bef. 1199–aft. 1199: Vivian de Stagno bef. 1206–aft. 1231: William de Muschamp bef. 1238–aft. 1254: William de Luteby bef. 1256–aft. 1261: David de Sancta Frideswida bef. 1263–aft. 1263: William de Weston bef. 1278–aft. 1278: Simon bef. 1279–aft. 1281: Jordan de Wymburne bef. 1281–July 1311 (d.): Elias de Napton Late Medieval 17 December 1311–February 1328 (d.): Geoffrey de Blaby or Glaston 15 March 1328–bef. 1338 (d.): Anthony de Monte Peliologo 23 February 1339–bef. 1351 (d.): John de Asheby 19 August 1351 – 1353 (res.): John de Marisco 26 November 1353–bef. 1361 (d.): Hugh de Marisco 17 October 1361 – 24 December 1369 (exch.): Robert de Stretton 24 December 1369–bef. 1381 (d.): William Lombe 15 November 1381 – 14 January 1418 (d.): John de Outheby bef. 1428–1431 (res.): Walter Bullock 2 September 1431 – 23 May 1473 (exch.): John Bride 23 May 1473–bef. 1485: William Chauntre 12 October 1485 – 8 May 1501 (d.): Edmund Hals bef. 1506–1515 (res.): Nicholas West 9 March 1516–bef. 1533 (res.): John Taylor (also Master of the Rolls from 1527 and Archdeacon of Halifax from 1528) April 1533–7 January 1543 (d.): Richard Strete

Early modern 8 January 1543 – 1557 (res.): David Pole (also Archdeacon of Salop) November 1558 – 1559 (deprived): John Ramridge (also Dean of Lichfield) November 1559–September 1567 (d.): Richard Walker (also Archdeacon of Stafford) 17 September 1567 – 1576 (d.): Laurence Nowell (also Dean of Lichfield) 29 July 1577 – 1587 (d.): Luke Gilpin March 1588–23 November 1590 (rem.): Walter Marsh 23 November 1590 – 1 June 1603 (d.): John Walton 9 June 1603–bef. 1609: Valentine Overton 1609–bef. 1617: Christopher Helme 4 December 1617–bef. 1641 (d.): Samuel Clerk 1641–bef. 1666 (d.): William Higgins bef. 1666–1689 (res.): Thomas Brown (or Browne) 7 August 1689–bef. 1704 (d.): Francis Ashenhurst 14 December 1704–bef. 1719 (d.): Thomas Goodwin 24 September 1719 – 19 April 1755 (d.): Henry Ryder 5 May 1755–bef. 1769 (d.): Sneyd Davies 3 February 1769 – 28 February 1795 (d.): Henry Egerton 10 March 1795 – 25 April 1809 (d.): James Falconer 12 May 1809 – 7 February 1821 (d.): Edmund Outram 24 February 1821 – 1836 (res.): Samuel Butler 9 September 1836 – 5 May 1840 (res.): Francis Hodgson 30 December 1840 – 1847 (res.): Walter Shirley 11 January 1847 – 18 April 1873 (res.): Thomas Hill Late modern The archdeaconry became part of the Southwell diocese on 5 February 1884. 1873–29 November 1891 (d.): Edward Balston 1891–1900 (res.): Henry Freer[4] 1900–1909 (res.): Edward Were[5] Since 7 July 1927, the archdeaconry has been in the Diocese of Derby. 1909–1943 (ret.): Edward Noakes (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)[6] 1943–1952 (ret.): Henry FitzHerbert (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)[7] 1952–1973 (ret.): John Richardson (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)[8] 1973–1992 (ret.): Robert Dell (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)[9] 1993–2005 (ret.): Ian Gatford[10][11] 29 April 2006 – 31 December 2020 (ret.):[12] Christopher Cunliffe[13][14] 1 January 2021 – present (acting): Peter Walley[15]

Notes

1. Froger was a Norman in favour with Henry II, who appointed him his Almoner. Accordingly he occurs no earlier than 1155. In 1159, he was appointed Bishop of Séez. "While yet Archdeacon of Derby he transmitted to the Abbey of Mortimer en Lions a copy of the Old Testament in two volumes."

References

1. "No. 25315". The London Gazette. 5 February 1884. p. 527.
2. "No. 28425". The London Gazette. 18 October 1910. pp. 7321–7334.
3. "No. 33290". The London Gazette. 1 July 1927. p. 4207.
4. "Freer, T. Henry". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com. 1920–2008 (December 2007 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 28 February 2013. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
5. "Were, Edward Ash". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com. 1920–2008 (December 2007 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 28 February 2013. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
6. "Noakes, Edward Spencer". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com. 1920–2008 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 28 February 2013. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
7. "FitzHerbert, Henry Edward". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com. 1920–2008 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 28 February 2013. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
8. "Richardson, John Farquhar". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com. 1920–2008 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 28 February 2013. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
9. "Dell, Robert Sydney". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com. 1920–2008 (December 2008 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 28 February 2013. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
10. "The Ven Ian Gatford's Biography". Debretts. Retrieved 20 January 2010.
11. "Gatford, Ian". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com. 2013 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 28 February 2013. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
13. Derby Diocese — The Archdeacon of Derby
14. "Cunliffe, Christopher John". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com. 2013 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 28 February 2013. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
15. https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2021/22-january/gazette/appointments/appointments

Sources

• Le Neve, John; Hardy, Sir Thomas Duffus (1854). Archdeacons of Derby . Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae. 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 575–576  – via Wikisource.
• Jones, B. (1964), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300–1541, 10, pp. 16–17
• Horn, Joyce M. (2003), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, 10, pp. 10–12