Rectors of Wallington
1309-1870
Summarised from Cussans "History of Hertfordshire"
Initially the presentation of the living of Wallington was in the gift of the Abbot and Convent of St Albans
William de Thorntoft 1309
William de Appelar
Ralph de Depying 1334
John de Aerdley 1340
Richard Swayn 1348
Thomas Fitz-Richard 1351
Thomas Fitz-Geoffrey
John Horewood 1387
Thomas Clerke 1416
William Moys
John Cley 1461
William Cornysshe 1467
Oliver Mylle 1470
John Swepston 1475
Henry Keye 1476
Richard Lofte
John Cale 1523
With the Dissolution of the Monasteries the presentation passed to John Bowles and later Thomas Bowles
John Wigton 1538
John Smarte 1554
Thomas Sherrock 1563
Henry Ledsham 1576
John Bill 1585
John Bowles 1623
John Bowles was displaced by William Sherwin during the period of the Commonwealth and it would appear that the early registers were lost as a result.
Thomas Bowles sold the presentation to Nevile Butler
John Butler 1670 (Nevile Butler's son)
On John Butler's death in 1714 the presentation passed to the Lord of the Manor, Francis Breton, who passed it to the Master of Emanuel College, Cambridge.
John Browne 1714
John Wilkinson 1736
Robert Richardson 1759
Thomas Sisson 1782
George Robert Tuck 1838