Burton Latimer - Chapels:

John Meads 2015

Curates at Burton Latimer St. Mary's Church

The Revd. Harold Priestland with his young family, circa 1904.
The three youngest, May, Dora and Kenneth, were born here
when living at Manor House and then Sunnyside Farm

Over the years dozens of young clergymen have been appointed curate at our Parish Church. Some stayed several years, some less than twelve months but nearly all of them left their mark, either through officiating at services when the rector was away, or through taking part in church activities.

The list below is not exhaustive and will be added to when more information can be found. The dates given are when mention of them was found, perhaps in newspapers or, more likely, when their name was found in a parish register. Any name other than the rector's has been added to this list, which may also possibly include clergymen standing in for absent rectors or curates when neither were able to officiate.

Christian name	Surname	Mentioned and/or period of appointment	Other details
Mr.	Alexander	1524 - 52
Thomas	Allnutt	1844 - 45	Later at Bucklesham, Norfolk and Stibbard, Suffolk
Mathias	Barker	1850 – 51	"Unlicenced curate"
Charles Blount	Bartlett	1887 – 93	To Leicester
Charles Hippuff	Bingham	1847	From Kettering, went to Ramsey, Hunts.
Thomas	Birde	1633 - 45	Curate and Schoolmaster
Beatrice	Brandon	2006-2007	Moved to Earls Barton
S.N.	Bull	1812 - 13	Later Vicar at Harwich
William	Chippindall	1871	Later Vicar at Tilton-on-the-Hill
Edward	Craig	1837 - 43	From St. John's Chapel, Edinburgh. Married Amelia Harpur, daughter of Joseph Harpur
James Wallworth	Davis	1863 – 69	Later at Napton-on-the-Hill
Thomas	Durham	1822 - 1832	Owned property in Burton Latimer. Died in office
Samuel	Edwards	1854	Later at Clifton
Edmund Milnes	Ellerbeck	1891 – 92	Later Vicar at Chipperfield, Herts
Thomas	Enfield	1637
Robert Rochfort	Forlong	1886	Later curate at Walpole St. Andrew
Frederick Wm.	Harris	1873 – 84
John	Holte	1719 – 23
Thomas M.	Houston	2017 -
James	Irving	1846	From St. Matthew, Walsall
James Knight	Jennings	1844	Probably later at Leamington and thence to Highgate, Middlesex
John	Johnson	1815 – 20	Later at Yaxham, Norfolk. Cousin of poet William Cowper.
A.	Macpherson	1834 - 35	Involved in a bitter dispute with Baptists over right to hold burial services in the churchyard
W.H.	McCleary	1935	"Curate in charge"
John C.	Morphew	1849 - 50	Received testimonial from pupils
Richard	Morton	1844 - 56	Head of Kettering Grammar School. To Rothwell 1856
T.	Neale	1752 – 56
Francis Browne	Newman	1862 - 68	Also Rector 1872-95
Thomas	Newton	1677 – 83
G.	Nunwick	1617
Henry	Pheasant	1638 – 40
Harold Philipson	Phillips	1909 - 15	To St. Christopher's, Ellistown. Accidental death 1922
Harold	Priestland	1893 - 1906	Came to Burton from from Belton, Rutland
Charles Gillespie	Pritchard	1885	Here only a short time. Died same year, aged 26, at Bath
John	Read	1717	Son baptised here
W.E.	Richardson	1852 - 53	From Northampton All Saints c1852, left 1853
Robert	Smith	1684
Pawlett	St. John	1751 – 57	Member of land-owning Bedfordshire family
Smithett	Swinford	1859 - 62	Later at Ashton Keynes, Wilts., where he died in 1884
Gilbert	Walton	1732 – 50
Charles	Warren	1832	Later forty years at Over, near Huntington
Robert	Welborne	1722 – 32
Charles	Williams	1813 – 14	Went to Barby
A.B.Wilson	Woodhouse	1907 - 09	From Great Easton. Later at St. Mark, Worsley, then Vicar at St. Silas, Ardwick, Manchester
Edward	Yorke	1718