Source: Index to the Parishes in the County of Oxford; British History online; C. of E. Database; Blomfield
1222 - Ralph (formerly official of the Archdeacon of Oxford)
1231 - John de Crakhall
1261 - Walter de Cotes
1290 - Robert Trevet (deacon)
1309 - Richard de Ellesfield (acolyte)
1316-49 - Richard de Gardinis
1349 - Thomas Bassat (D)
1349 - Robert de Apultr (acolyte) (D)
1361 - William de Merston
1377-92 - William de Gardinis
1392 - Robert de Wermingham
1397-? - Master Nicholas Hereford
1398 - Richard Clyfford
1401-18 - Robert Marying
1418-52 - John Aston (R)
1452-? - William Bragges
1479 - John Wright (R)
1496 - Thomas Humberstone
1504 - Robert Birche (D)
1537-52 - Robert King
1552 - Thomas Gardyner (C)
1558-59 - John Mitchell
1583-85 - Richard Harrys (C)
1615-33 - William Juxon LLB (C) - later Archbishop of Canterbury
1633-? - Thomas Walker DD (C)
1660-? - Miles Sandys
1664-? - Henry Walker
1665-1709 - Samuel Jemmatt
1713-19 - Edmund Marten/Martin LLB (R)
1719-24 - John Cobb LLD (D)
1724-28 - George Fletcher MA (R)
1728-69 - John Watson (D)
1769-1804 - Barfoot Cotton MA (D) - from 1769 to 1850 the Parish was considered too small and poor to support a resident Priest
1804-31 - Henry Wintle (C)
1831-61 - Robert Cox Clifton (D)
1861-75 - William Henry Price (C)
1875-1923 - George Edward Barnes (D)
1923-39 - G. L. Merchant (R)
1939-49 - T. V. Ruddock
1949-57 - W. P. Hares
1957-59 - F. W. Moyle
1959-81 - Clifford C. Rhodes (R)
1982-93 - Ven. John Hewitt Wilson (R) - former Chaplain-in-Chief of the Royal Air Force; Honorary Chaplain to the Queen
1993-2002 - Noel James
C = by cession; D = by death; R = by resignation. Date following name is date of Institution.
New Research, 2026
Added October 2026. Each item below has been checked against the source named with it. Where only a transcript or a later account has been seen, that is said.
A wartime rector in the RAF
Thomas Vigor Ruddock (1905-1961), rector here during the Second World War, also served as a chaplain in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, with the rank of squadron leader. The Westminster School archive, where he was a pupil, records this. It does not say where he served or when.
The same record gives his Somerton years as 1939-48 and has him as vicar of Ashley Green, near Chesham, from 1948. The list on this page says 1939-49. Which date is right is still to be settled.
Sources: Westminster School Archive, Ruddock, Thomas Vigor, 1905-1961.