Rectors of Brougham
1310 -1355 Robert de Appleby (no other dates stated)
1355-1362 Sir Thomas del Close
1362-1365 Thomas de Derby (resigned)
1365-1367 John de Merton (resigned)
1367-1393 Thomas de Derby (no other dates stated)
1393- ? Edward Skelling (no other dates stated)
Up to 1575 John Wansford (“Deprived of the living”)
1575-1583 Thomas Burton (resigned)
1583-1624 Cuthbert Bradley (obiit 1624)
1624-1629 Christopher Beecroft
1629- 1644 William Crackenthorpe (no other dates stated)
1644- 1646 Arthur Savage M.A. (Sequestrated) (no other dates)
1646- 1654 Thomas Robinson (no other dates stated)
1656-1661 Simon Webster (Transferred to Dufton, Appleby – The Rector at the time today’s Chapel was built)
1660-1664 Arthur Savage M.A. (shared duties 1st year?)
1664-1676 Samuel Grastie M.A.
1680-1707 Rowland Burrow M.A. (“obiit Clifton”)
1708-1711 John Atkinson (Transferred to Kirkby Thore)
1711-1722 Carleton Atkinson (Transferred to Kirkby Thore)
1722-1770 William Preston (obiit Brougham)
1770-(1777)-1781 Richard Machell M.A. (resigned)
1786-1787 John Mason Fenton
1787-1823 John Heelis M.A. (resigned)
1823-1834 Richard Heelis M.A. (resigned)
1834-1845 Gilbert Elliott M.A. (resigned)
1845-1846 Bryan Killoch M.A. (“Cession”)
1846-1864 Hon. Thomas Edwards M.A. (“Cession”)
1864-1900 W.S. Salaman M.A. (resigned)
1900-1922 Arthur John Heelis M.A. (resigned)
1922-1928 C.H. Eckersley (“Cession)
1928-1940 John Wilson (Obiit) (the Church had two glebe farms in the Parish of Brougham, the rent from which paid his salary and when he died the Wilson family were given six weeks to get out of the Rectory and no pension)
1940-1942 Norman E. Shepherd M.A. (resigned – probably because he was out of a job i.e. Chapel shut by War Department)
1943-1945 Chapel Closed by War Department
1946-1959 The Revd. Canon C.M. Lowther Bouch
1959-1971 The Revd. Thomas Evelyn Thorneley Burbury
1975-1989 The Revd. Thomas William Hardy Rutherford, Priest-in-charge 1975 to 1977: Rector 1977 to 1989 (Pastoral Scheme: Clifton, Brougham and Cliburn from 1977)
1989-1994* The Revd. Paul Henry Hockey (Clifton, Brougham and Cliburn)
1996*-2006 The Revd. David Jeffrey Radcliffe (Pastoral Scheme: Lowther, Askham, Clifton and Brougham from 1996, move to Worcester 2006)
* The Revd. Wilfrid Braithwaite officiated at three principal events before, during and after the void from 1994 to 1996 – these were the dedication of Brougham Hall’s War Memorial in July 1992 and Doll’s Museum in July 1997, also the Clifton Battle re-enactment of June 1995.
2007- Revd. Steven McMahon