Chaplains and Clergy: 1441 to Present Day

Chaplains and Clergy


  • 1441 John Vendenal (died 23.4.1459). Desired to be buried at the feet of his father, towards the altar of St. John the Baptist
  • 1459 William de Bempton (died 8.11.1462). Desired to be buried in the Quire.
  • 1525 John Roper
  • 1528 William Thomas. Desired to be buried in St. Michael's at Bempton.
  • 1663 Richard Brotherick (Broderick).
  • 1673 George Young B.A. Also curate of Flamborough until 1693.
  • 1693 Thomas Smith
  • 1693 John Topham
  • 1695 Joseph Prudem. Married Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. George Young.
  • 1710 John Topham (Again?)
  • 1740 Joseph Prudem (Again?)
  • 1743 Cornelius Rickaby. Ordained Deacon 1736, Curate (Rudston)
  • 1785 Bethal Robinson (died 1819). Member of Buckton Hall family.
  • 1786 John Collings (Bempton with Speeton).
  • 1810 Edward John Burrows
  • 1819 Jabaz Banks (died Nov 1859). (Buried Bempton M.I.)
  • 1829 Rector Henry Broadley
  • 1860 Walter Guy Ketchley
  • 1862 James Clarke B.A. (Exchanged Bempton and Ripley with last Vicar).
  • 1872 John Goulding Sanders
  • 1874 Nicholas McGrath B.A. Reredos in his memory.
  • 1905 John Francis Wilkinson L.Th 1980
  • 1914 Joseph Mawson M.A. 1933 Tom Llewllyn Gomersall (Resigned)
  • 1944 Edward Horace Rudkin B.A.
  • 1950 Alfred Thomas Huxley B.A. (died)
  • 1957 John Frederick Shreeve M.A. (Resigned)
  • 1963 Joseph Sykes Rymer A.L.C.D. (Resigned)
  • 1966 Hedley Arthur Mitchell Pickard (by cession)
  • 1975 Ernest Edward Stephen Jones Dip. Th. (Resigned)
  • 1980 Roland Geoffrey Hirst (Resigned)
  • 1987 Rev'd Bruce Le G. Petfield (Resigned)
  • 1995 Rev’d John Jordan (to 2000)
  • 2001 William Michael Cartwright (to 2003)
  • 2004 Dr Peter Pike (to 2012)
  • 2013 Rev’d Anthony Patterson (to 2017)
  • 2018 Rev’d Jane Penn (to 2022) 

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