The Vicars of West Mersea, 1349 to the present day. Framed list in the back of the church, by T.B. Millatt with later additions.
Vicars of West Mersea
1349 Simon de Hodelyn
1353 William Cook.
1362 Gruther de Snapes. Thomas Boucher or Bouther.
1363 Roger Newcroft
1365 John Warde, William Skynner
1384 Stephen Moundegome.
1415 The Priory of West Mersea suppressed.
John Girthead
1434 William Campion
1450 Hugo White M.A.
1450 Richard Wilcock - buried in the chancel.
1467 John Marshall M.A. Bishop of Llandaff 1478-90
1467 John Nicoll
1475 William Penne
1480 William Stockdale M.A.
William Clerke
1503 Edmund Cowope
John Woodward
1525 Dennis Morrison
1555 Thomas Foster
1558 William Henton
1580 Francis Warner
1590 William Burnell
1607 Thomas Convers
Timonth Herne
1620 William Mason M.A.
1622 John Burgess M.A.
1624 Thomas Dove M.A.
1630 John Woolhouse ejected in 1642
1644 Thomas Beard Puritan Intrusion
16.. William Noble
1652 Arthur Okeley
1662 Thomas Vicars M.A.
1708 Nathaniel Cooke B.A.
1731 John Brownsmith B.A.
1733 Stephen Aldrich B.A.
1738 Charles Lind B.A.
1748 Joseph Brockwell M.A.
1797 Nathaniel Forster B.A.
1851 George Willcock B.A.
1859 Edward Flavell Ventriss M.A.
1863 Thomas R. Musselwhite M.A.
1888 Francis Owston M.A.
1893 William Yorick Smythies B.A.
1898 Charles Pierrepont Edwards M.C.
1946 Timothy Griffith R. Hughes A.K.C.
1957 Reginald Walter East B.A.
1971 Frederick James Serjeant A.K.C.
Rectors of East and West Mersea
1973 Frederick James Serjeant A.K.C.
1976 John Edwin Boxley M.A.
1981 John Allen George Swallow B.A.
Priest in charge West Mersea with East Mersea, Peldon and the Wigboroughs
1994 Robin Howard Elphick A.L.C.D.
2003 Sam Charles Norton M.A.
2021 Jude Bevan
2023 Jo Parrott
Date: 25 November 2023