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Rectors of the Parish of Albury

1250

Alan de Pointon

1285

Gilbert D’Abernon

1327

Gilbert le Cob

1349

Robert Brightrich

1384

William Loxley

1400

William Norton

1402

John Wath

1403

Walter Stonyng

1410

Edmund Barbour

1411

John Coke

1413

William de Bedford
Edmund Crofter
Edmund Forster

1478

James Byrkhed

1509

Roger Colyngwode
Richard Hutton
Edward Banks

1560

Bartholomew Bowdock

1582

Robert Cowper

1610

William Oughtred

About William

He came to Albury (worth £100 per annum) having been incumbent in Shalford for five years previously. He is well known for his book Clavis Mathematicae. It was said that he was a pitiful preacher; the reason was because he never studied it, but bent all his thoughts on the mathematics; but when he was in danger of being sequestered for a royalist, he fell to the study of divinity and preached admirably well, even in his old age. He died June 13th 1660

1660

John Hansley

1667

John Holland

1691

George Duncombe  

1714

Joseph Peters

1745

John Botham

1774

Samual Hursley

1780

William Polhill

About William
He served here until March 11th 1822 when he died at the age of 85. Miss Bray, a resident of Albury, has entered in her “Recollections of Shere”, written in 1857:- “Mr. Polhill, Rector of Albury, was a good specimen of the old-fashioned race of clergy now extinct. He and his wife were perfect pictures in their neat and pretty personage, and when on Sundays, he descended from his respectable chariot in his full-bottomed powdered wig, dingle hat and flowing silk gown, and walked up the Churchyard with his lady by his side dressed in white with black silk cloak, he made a most imposing figure to my mind. Yet his teaching was not such as I should value now, and he did not scruple in his younger days to join the Hunt on his sleek steed, which was used for farm work and riding in the week, and with its companion drew the couple to church on Sundays. They were thoroughly respected.”

1822

Hugh McNeile

About Hugh

He was a prominent Evangelical and attended the first of Drummond’s conferences, however, he became critical of the movement with its over prophesies and speaking in tongues and thereafter took no further part. He went on to be Dean of Ripon.

1834

John Hooper

About John

n.b. John Hooper’s third son is buried in Gyomro, Hungary where a gravestone inscription reads – In Memory of James Filkes Hooper Born 14th November 1829 Died 22nd January 1859 The third son of the late Rev. John Hooper Rector of Albury England

1857

George Raymond Portal

1871

Robert James Dundas

1904

Henry Ernest Crowley

1921

Frederick Norman Skene

1930

Philip Gray

1944

James Vaux Cornell Farquar

1948

Edward Francis Synge

1904

Henry Ernest Crowley

1959

Stewart Orme

1988

Dudley Harrison Gummer

1998

The parishes of Albury, Shere and Chilworth combine to form a United Benefice, and Albury no longer has its own Rector.

1998

Canon Geraint Meirion-Jones

First Rector of United Benefice. Retired in 2004.

2001

Reverend Ken Hobbs

Vicar of Albury

2005

Reverend Charles Lawrence

Rector of United Benefice

2010

Reverend Nick Whitehead

Rector of United Benefice

2012

Reverend Andrew Pearson

Vicar of Albury

2019

Reverend Tim Heaney

Rector of United Benefice

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Albury
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