The Patronage of the living of Southrepps was granted at the time of the Norman Conquest (1066) to William, Earl Warren. It continued with the de Warren family until about 1350 when it passed to John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, who was the husband of the heiress and last member of the de Warren family. John of Gaunt’s son succeeded to the throne of England as King Henry IV in 1399. The Patronage has remained with the Crown exercising its right as owner of the Duchy of Lancaster.
1257 John de Repps
1294 William de Rollesby
1317 John de Wesset
1323 Peter de Cusancia
1324 William de Cusancia
132* Oliver de Wesset
1328 John de Langeburgh
1339 John de Helpeston
13** Robert de Helpeston
1377 Adam Pope
1390 William Frere
1421 John Holbrook
1437 Robert Cherbury
1454 Richard Bower
1471 John Talwyn
1488 William Wales
**** Richard Goodman
1515 Thomas Gresham
1558 Samuel Oates
1620 Edmund Pendleton
1635 John Dawson
1638 George Downham
1647 Edmund Broome
1661 Eligius Agas
1678 Wormley Martin Snr
1716 Wormley Martin Jnr
1756 John Ellis
1788 James Hodgson
1799 Charles Smith
1803 Sir George Lee
1804 George Glover
1818 George Glover
1862 Richard Hamond Gwyn
1892 Hon. John Harbord
1901 Sir Frederick Sullivan Bart
1921 Humphrey Gordon Barclay CVO MC
1926 William Foster Smith
1946 Humphrey Gordon Barclay 2nd time
1955 W Laurence D Mackenzie
1959 Harold Arthur Rhodes Tilney OBE
1970 Edward John Richardson
1977 Samuel Kern (John) Freston
1982 Kenneth Roy Evans
1985 Anthony Bernard Norton
1994 Bronwen Noel Carling
2001 David William Bartlett
2015 David John Roper
2019 Siân Jacqueline Mary Reading