Archdeacon of Barnstaple

High Medieval[edit]

• Allured (first archdeacon)
• ?–1143: Ralph (I)
• c. 1155: William de Auco
• bef. c. 1184–aft. c. 1185: Roger
• bef. 1203–?: Thomas
• 30 September 1209–?: Ralph de Werewell
• John
• bef. c. 1219–?: Ralph (II)
• ?–8 February 1227 (d.): Isaac
• Walter de Pembroke (afterwards Archdeacon of Totnes)
• 21 January 1263 – 1264: Henry de Bracton
• 25 May 1264–?: Richard Blund (afterwards Archdeacon of Totnes;

possibly son of Richard Blund, Bishop of Exeter)

• 6 November 1265–May 1267: Godfrey Giffard (also Archdeacon of Wells from 1267; later Bishop of Worcester)
• May 1267–?: John de Bradleigh
• January 1271–?: Thomas de Hertford
• 28 August 1279–?: Philip of Exon

Late Medieval[edit]

• ?–1308: Ralph Germeyn
• 13 October 1308 – 1309: William Melton (later Archbishop of York)
• 4 January 1309 – 1309: William Fitsrogo
• 30 March 1309 – 1312: John Wele
• ? ("a short time"): Bartholomew de Sancto Laurentio
• 26 March 1312 – 3 December 1314 (res.): Walter Giffard
• 7 February 1315 – 1318 (d.): Richard de Morcester (afterwards Archdeacon of Exeter)
• 22 September 1318 – 1329: Richard de Wideslade
• 10/15 December 1329 – 1330: William Zouche
• 17 December 1330 – 1349: John de Nassington
• 8 April 1350 – 1351: John de Reynham
• c. 1352: Hugh de Monyton
• 23 February 1355 – 2 September 1358: John de Derby
• 2 September 1358–c. 1367: William de Mugge
• bef. 1371 or 23 February 1384–c. 1387: Henry Whitefield
• bef. 1395 or 8 September 1399 – 1400: Robert Rygge
• 17/22 August 1400 – 1400: Richard Aldtyngton
• 1 November 1400 – 1429 (res.): John Orum
• 2 August 1429 – 1442 (d.): John Waryn
• 3 August 1442 – 1445 (res.): Richard Helyer
• 16 June 1445 – 1449 (res.): Michael Tregury (afterwards Archbishop of Dublin)
• 25 January 1450 – 1459: Roger Keys
• 12 July 1462–October 1475 (d.): William Fulford
• 27 October 1475 – 1476 (res.): John Stubbes
• 10 December 1476 – 1478 (res.): Owen Lord
• 18 February 1478 – 8 October 1485 (d.): Robert Barforth

• bef. 1492–c. 1506: William Elyot
• ?–1508: John Vesey (later Dean of Windsor and Bishop of Exeter)
• 3 August 1508–c. 1512: Richard Norton
• c. 1512–1515 (res.): John Young
• 12 April 1515 – 1518 (d.): John Tyake
• 19 January 1518 – 26 April 1528 (d.): Richard Tollett
• 26 April 1528 – 29 May 1544 (d.): Thomas Brerwood

Early modern[edit]

• 16 June 1544 – 1554 (deprived): John Pollard (also Archdeacon of Wilts until 1544, Archdeacon of Cornwall until 1545)
• 20 April 1554 – 1582 (res.): Henry Squire
• 7 January 1583 – 1585: Robert Lawe
• 24 April 1585 – 1605: William Tooker
• 27 November 1605 – 21 November 1645 (d.): William Helyar
• 1645–1660: Vacancy during the English Commonwealth.
• 31 August 1660 – 1662: James Smith
• 1662–1679 (d.): Joshua Tucker
• 29 August 1679 – 1703 (d.): William Read
• 24 September 1703 – 1709 (d.): Robert Burscough
• 9 September 1709 – 11 August 1724 (d.): Thomas Lynford (also Canon of Westminster)
• 1724–1731: Lewis Stephens (afterwards Archdeacon of Chester)
• 28 October 1731 – 1744 (d.): John Grant
• 16 March 1745 – 26 October 1791 (d.): William Hole
• 3 November 1791 – 1798 (d.): Roger Massey
• 14 March 1798 – 3 July 1799 (d.): John Andrew
• 25 July 1799 – 28 June 1805 (d.): Peregrine Ilbert
• 16 August 1805–? (res.): Jonathan Fisher
• 3 November 1807 – 1826 (d.): Thomas Johnes
• 1826–1830 (res.): John Bull
• 1830–1847: George Barnes
• 1847–1865: John Bartholomew^[3]

Late modern[edit]

• 1865–1885: Henry Woollcombe
• 1885–1890: Herbert Barnes
• 1890–24 December 1908 (d.): Albert Seymour
• 1908–9 July 1930 (d.): Robert Trefusis, Bishop of Crediton
• 1930–26 June 1935 (d.): Frank Jones
• 1935–1945: Edgar Hay
• 1946–1958: Denis James
• 1958–1962: Guy Sanderson^[4]
• 1962–1970: Arthur Ward (afterwards Archdeacon of Exeter)
• 1970–1988: Ronald Herniman
• 1989–2002 (ret.): Trevor Lloyd
• 2003–2014 (ret.): David Gunn-Johnson
• 1 September 2014 – 2015: Mike Edson (Acting)
• 23 March 2014 – 6 September 2020: Mark Butchers^[5][6]
• September 2021 onwards: Verena Breed^[7]