1476 – 1478 (res.): Owen Lord 18 February 1478 – 8 October 1485 (d.): Robert Barforth bef. 1492–: William Elyot ?–1508: John Vesey (later Dean of Windsor and Bishop of Exeter) 3 August 1508–: Richard Norton –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 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 Late modern 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 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 20146 September 2020: Mark Butchers September 2021 onwards: Verena Breed References Sources Gribble, Joseph Besly–Memorials of Barnstaple: being an attempt to supply the want of a history of that ancient borough; 1830; pp 483–486 (Google eBook) Lists of Anglicans Archdeacons of Barnstaple Diocese of Exeter Lists of English people Christianity in Devon