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Rectors of Wiveton

Date RECTOR PATRON
c1248 Bartholomew de Bineville.
1299 William de Spalding. Sir Gregory de Spalding.
1309 Jeffrey de Brunne. Lady Maud de Brunne.
1328 Thomas de Brunne William de Brunne.
1351 Henry Palmer. Bishop of Norwich. (By lapse)
1375 William de Wood Norton. John Honyng.
1390 John de Norwich(Canon of Langley).
1391 Henry Sturdy Thomas Moryn
1392 William Clerk.
1417 Thomas Lynge. Thomas Cavan and Robert Lynge
1426 Edward Hunt Catherine Brigg.
1427 William Brigg

(first Rector of new church)
1475 William Bishop.

(Brass in chancel.)
Joan Brigg
1512 Thomas Gresham.
1550 Thomas Brigg. Edward Brigg.
1554 William Flatbury.
1555 Thomas Donning.
1557 Richard Browne
1558 William Maddocks.
15– William Brigg.
1591 James Poynter, B.D.  George Brigg.
c 1621 Christopher Reeve.
1640 Robert Lowde.

(Buried in the chancel.) 
1670 Christopher Seman.

 (Buried in the chancel.)
1717 James Springold. John Jermy and James Springold
1758 Samuel Johnson.

(Tablet in chancel.)
Richard Ellis.
1779 James Hackman. Hyde Mathis.
1779 John Harding. George Wyndham.
1779 James Williams
1846 Anthony Thomas Hudson. Countess Listowel.
1885 William James Knapton. B. B. Cabbell.
1888 Henry Norman D’Almaine. Trustees of B. B. Cabbell
1894 Maurice Ortho Fitzmaurice.
1896 Theodore Thomas Berger. Rev. T. T. Berger.
1908 Joseph Godfrey Best Parmien Executors of Rev. T. T. Berger.
1913 Frank Wyatt. Sir Alfred Jodrell.
1918 D. W. Weir.
1922 Charles Toft

(Hon. Canon of Norwich).
1956 Charles Laurence Scruton Linnell  Keble College, Oxford.
1959 Arthur Mellor Gamble.