List of Walkern Rectors
List of Walkern Rectors from 12th century to present day
The church of St Mary’s in Walkern was given to the Abbey of St John’s in Colchester in the last quarter of the 12th century by Walkern’s lord William (I) de Lanvalei who was also govenor of Colchester castle. St John’s Abbey had been built by a previous lord of Walkern and govenor of Colchester, Eudo Dapifer, who had been granted substantial lands in Hertfordshire and Essex because of the support his father had given to William the Conqueror in 1066.
Guy de Boclonde was appointed by St John’s Abbey as Walkern?s first rector. We then skip nearly 100 years…
| From | To | Rector | Patron |
| 1274 | 1290 | William de Walkern | Abbey & Convent of St John, Colchester |
| 1290 | 1309 | Henry de Lanvale | Abbey & Convent of St John, Colchester |
| 1309 | 1318 | Geoffrey de Colchester | Abbey & Convent of St John, Colchester |
| 1318 | Hugh de Crevur | Abbey & Convent of St John, Colchester | |
| 1361 | Hugh de Rethell | Abbey & Convent of St John, Colchester | |
| 1361 | 1376 | Reginald de Clark | Abbey & Convent of St John, Colchester |
| 1376 | 1377 | John Blackfordby | Abbey & Convent of St John, Colchester |
| 1377 | 1385 | John Pechell | Abbey & Convent of St John, Colchester |
| 1385 | John Wryght | Abbey & Convent of St John, Colchester | |
| 1401 | Henry Everdon | Abbey & Convent of St John, Colchester | |
| 1401 | 1404 | John Chotwold | Abbey & Convent of St John, Colchester |
| 1404 | 1405 | Richard Adams | Abbey & Convent of St John, Colchester |
| 1405 | 1417 | Edmund Pelse | Abbey & Convent of St John, Colchester |
| 1417 | John Osmond | Abbey & Convent of St John, Colchester | |
| 1431 | William Carwardby | Abbey & Convent of St John, Colchester | |
| 1431 | 1434 | John Leek | Abbey & Convent of St John, Colchester |
| 1434 | Robert Lynde | Abbey & Convent of St John, Colchester | |
| 1476 | Geoffrey Rathe | Abbey & Convent of St John, Colchester | |
| 1476 | Walter Norman | Abbey & Convent of St John, Colchester | |
| 1506 | Thomas Yllingsley | Abbey & Convent of St John, Colchester | |
| 1506 | Thomas Onulshey | Abbey & Convent of St John, Colchester | |
| 1527 | Thomas Rulshaw | Abbey & Convent of St John, Colchester | |
| 1527 | John Stoke | Abbey & Convent of St John, Colchester | |
| 1587 | 1605 | Edward Horne | Gerge Brende |
| 1605 | John Clarke | Cownand Prowse | |
| 1612 | George Barrie | William Humberstone | |
| 1632 | John Gorsuch | Daniel Gorsuch | |
| 1635 | John Gorsuch | Charles I (by lapse) | |
| 1679 | 1686 | Samuel Gardiner | John Coates & John Wincopp |
| 1686 | 1722 | Godfrey Gardiner | Rev Samuel Gardiner |
| 1722 | 1731 | William Norton | Kings College Cambridge |
| 1731 | 1750 | Everard Sturgis | Kings College Cambridge |
| 1750 | 1776 | Thomas Southernwood | Kings College Cambridge |
| 1776 | 1781 | Elias Thackeray | Kings College Cambridge |
| 1781 | 1817 | Benjamin Heath | Kings College Cambridge |
| 1817 | 1838 | James Camper Wright | Kings College Cambridge |
| 1839 | 1873 | John Harding | Kings College Cambridge |
| 1873 | 1879 | William James Boys | Kings College Cambridge |
| 1879 | 1889 | James Camper Wright (see thumbnail) | Kings College Cambridge |
| 1889 | 1913 | Henry John Philpotts | Kings College Cambridge |
| 1913 | 1921 | William Eustace Mills | Kings College Cambridge |
| 1922 | 1936 | Francis Anthony Woodward Gibbs | Kings College Cambridge |
| 1937 | 1938 | Christopher Sausmarez Carey | Kings College Cambridge |
| 1939 | 1946 | William Dudley Willis Greenham | Kings College Cambridge |
| 1947 | 1952 | Robert James Pearce | Kings College Cambridge |
| 1952 | 1956 | Percy Harold Rogers | Kings College Cambridge |
| 1956 | 1959 | Brian Patrick Henharen | Kings College Cambridge |
| 1960 | 1968 | Lional John Paul | Kings College Cambridge |
| 1969 | 1971 | Digby S Baker | Kings College Cambridge |
| 1971 | 1978 | John Bolton Charles | Kings College Cambridge |
| 1978 | 1983 | Geoffrey Edward Marshall | Kings College Cambridge |
| 1983 | 1986 | John A McDermott | Kings College Cambridge |
| 1986 | 1987 | Vacant | |
| 1988 | 1991 | Peter Michael Hickley | Kings College Cambridge |
| 1991 | 1992 | Vacant | |
| 1992 | 1999 | John Newman Price | Kings College Cambridge |
| 1999 | 2008 | Rebecca Helen Totterdell | Kings College Cambridge |
| 2008 | 2009 | Vacant | |
| 2010 | to date | Michael Leverton | Kings College Cambridge |
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Interested in James Camper Wright, my great grandfather.
1817-1838 as rector
Rev Pearce once informed me: “Peter, you sing like an old hen.”