George Brown, MA, 1840 - 1886
Patron, Queen Victoria. Instituted July 1840, when
Curate-in-Charge of Lenton.
Brother of the Marquis of Sligo,
and son of the Rt. Hon. Denis Browne
MP, first Vicar of the new Parish church.
Percy Edward Smith, MA, 1886 - 1893
Assistant Curate 1881 - 1886.
Wrote Pastoral letter immediately after
Induction, in which he referred to the
completed restoration of the old Parish
Church (Priory Church).
Allan Hunter Watts, 1893 - 1917
Felix Asher, BD, 1917 - 1922
Died at Lenton, September 1922
Buried at Lenton by the Bishop of Derby.
W. Aden Wright, 1922 - 1928
Rainald J.R. Skipper, CF, 1929 - 1954 (formerly architect)
G. Hill
Vicar of Lenton for only a very short
period - killed while cycling to visit
the sick at Nottingham Hospital.
R.P. Neil, MA, 1957 - 1962
L.L. Abbott, CF, ARICS, 1963 - 1967
R.G. Dunford, 1967 - 1980
David Williams, MA, 1981 - 1987
After the dissolution of the Priory the Patron of Holy Trinity Church,
Lenton, was the Crown and this continued until the Wright Trustees
became the Patron whose first presentation was the Reverend Edward
Smith, MA. The Wright Trustees consisted of the following:
F.B. Wright of Warwickshire, Fitzherbert Wright of Swanwick, the
Reverend Plumptre of Eastwood, Notts., C.B. Kingdon of Ednaston Lodge,
Derbyshire, and the Reverend F.E. Wigram of Hampstead. The Wright
Trustees continued to present vicars to the Parish of Lenton until the
patronage was transferred to the Church Pastoral Aid Society in 1930.
There are records showing the Vicars of Lenton back to 1274 but there
was a period of approximately 100 years when Lenton was held in
plurality by the Vicar of Radford as can be seen from the record of
the institution of the Reverend E. Cresswell, MA. Edward Cresswell,
MA Patron, King George the Third. He was presented by the Crown to
the Vicarages of Lenton and Radford, and was duly instituted into both
benefices, May the 3rd 1803, being the first actual Vicar of Lenton
for upwards of a century, the living having been held "in commendam"
throughout that period, as already stated. He died April 11th 1840,
and was buried at Radford where there is a mural monument to his
memory.
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