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In many ways, the organisation of the Town and Manor of Hungerford has remained little changed over the past 400 years, since it came under the management of feoffees or trustees in 1617. The chief office holder of the Town and Manor of Hungerford is the Constable, a post whose origins are even earlier, and holders of this important post are known from as early as 1458. We are indebted to the late Norman Hidden for his painstaking research into the early Constables of Hungerford.
Other office holders include the Port-Reeve, Bailiff, four Tutti-men, a number of Water-Bailiffs, several Overseers of the Common (Port Down), three Keepers of the Keys of the Common Coffer, two Ale-Tasters (or 'Testers'), and the Bellman and Assistant Bailiff. Some offices have fallen from usage, including the Searchers and Sealers of Leather, and the Tasters of Flesh and Fish!
Through the medieval period, the duties of Constable included many parochial duties, including tax collector and keeping the peace. It was unpaid, and probably not a popular assignment.
See also:
Chronological List of Constables:
1458 John Tuckill
1474/75 Thomas Webbe
1505 Richard Jenyns (Genens)
1525 Januar Kyrton
c1550 Francis Elston
c1556 John Lovelake
1565 ?John Lovelake
1568 Thomas Dolman
1570 Humfrey Alleyne
1571 Thomas Hamblyn
1572 William Butler
1573 Thomas Seymour
1580 John Yewell
1583 Thomas Seymor
1584 Robert Wayte
1585 John Doleman
1586 Thomas Seymor
1587 Edward Collins
1588 Thomas Seymour
1592 John Fawler
1593 Philip Seymor
1594 Humfrey Batte
1595 ?
1596 ?
1597 ?
1598 John Curr
1599 Philip Seymor
1600 John Lucas
1601 Thomas Carpenter
1602-04 Robert Field
1603 Edward Collins
1604 ?
1605 Tristam Dolman
1606 ?
1607 John Curr
1608 Ralph Mackerell
1609-10 Thomas Carpenter
1611 Robert Field
1612-13 Humfrey Batte
1614 Thomas Carpenter
1615 Robert Field
1616 Ralph Mackerell
1617 John Lucas
1618 ?
1619 Rafe Harrold / John Forty
1620 John Burche
1621 Robert Field
1622 John West
1623 William Waite
1624 Benjamin Holton [Houghton]
1625 John Youle
1626 Benjamin Houghton [Holton]
1627 John Curr / John Forty
1628 John Curr senior
1629 William Norcraft
1630 Thomas Garmy [als Cook]
1631 John Birche
1632 John West
1633 Roger Lovelake
1634 Jehosophat Lucas
1635 Richard Sare
1636 Isaac Field
1637 Jehosophat Lucas
1638 Roger Lovelack
1639 Jehosophat Lucas
1640 Thomas Garmy
1641 John Forty junior
1642 John Youle
1643 Jerome Purton
1644 Thomas Mackerell
1645 Benjamin Holton / John Youle
1646 Thomas Toe
1647 Jehosophat Lucas
1648 John Forty
1649 Nicholas Birch
1650 Edmund Stephens
1651 John Curr
1652 John Butler
1653 Jonathan Reade
1654 John Forty
1655 Timothy Lucas
1656 John Butler
1657 John Toe
1658 John Coxhead
1659 Joseph Sare
1660 Joseph Sare
1661 Adrian Pollerne
1662 Jonathan Reade
1663 John Forty
1664 Edmund Stevens
1665 Tobias Pollerne
1666 Henry Whyneatt
1667 Adwin Williams
1668 Thomas Butler
1669 Thomas Oram
1670 Richard Mayle
1671 John Norris
1672 Robert Osmond
1673 Adwin Williams
1674-75 Robert Osmond
1676 John Dicks
1677 Thomas Sare
1678 Jehosophat Stephens
1679 John Toe
1680 Noah Webb
1681 Joseph Butler
1682 Thomas Woodroffe
1683 Thomas Robinson, jnr
1684 John Pinnocke
1685 Richard Cannon
1686 Richard King
1687 John Mabberley
1688 Joseph Butler
1689 Robert Osmond
1690 John Seager
1691 Thomas Woodroffe
1692 Richard Cannon
1693 Edward Lucas
1694 John Hamblen
1695 John Boone
1696 Thomas Robinson
1697 Noah Webb
1698 Thomas Butler
1699 Edward Lucas
1700 Richard Sare
1701 John Toe
1702 Thomas Woodroffe, jnr
1703 Joseph Sare
1704 Thomas Butler
1705 Robert Patient
1706 John Boone
1707 Thomas Sare
1708 John Hamblen
1709 Thomas Robinson
1710 Joseph Sare
1711 William Ryman
1712 Roger Streat
1713 John Mackerell
1714 Richard Sare
1715 John Webb
1716 Thomas Robinson, jnr
1717 John Hamblen
1718 John Robinson
1719 Roger Streat
1720 Thomas Robinson
1721 William Coster
1722 John Robinson
1723 Thomas Robinson
1724 Jonathan Coxhead
1725 William Forty
1726 George White
1727 Edward Lucas
1728 Thomas Sare
1729 Anthony Woodroffe
1730 Edward Hanson
1731 William Cheyney
1732 Thomas Liddiard
1733 James Webb
1734 Thomas Pike
1735 Joseph Povey
1736 John Mackerell
1737 John Toe
1738 Thomas Woodroffe, jnr
1739 William Ryman
1740 Thomas Robinson
1741 Charles Thomas
1742 Edward Playstead
1743 William Litman
1744 Joseph Allen
1745 Thomas Pool
1746 John Lewington
1747 Henry Tuck
1748 John Whyneatt
1749 Thomas Pool
1750 John Forty
1751 Henry Clark
1752 Thomas Pool
1753 John Farrenden
1754 William Allen
1755 Thomas Robinson
1756 Anthony Woodroffe
1757 James Shipton
1758 Anthony Woodroffe
1759 John Toe
1760 Charles Thomas
1761 John Bird
1762 Richard Blissett
1763 Henry Clark
1764 James Shipton
1765 Abraham Hopkins
1766 Thomas Hawkesworth
1767-68 Abiam Tubb
1769 George Church
1770 John Coxhead
1771 Edward Bear
1772 John Coxhead
1773 Robert Jegon
1774 Moses Burche
1775 Francis Stockbridge
1776 William Smith
1777 John Snook
1778 Edward Bear
1779 Thomas Robinson
1780 Thomas Hawkesworth
1781 Robert Smith
1782 John Simmonds
1783 Anthony Woodroffe
1784-85 John Burgess
1786 William Coxhead
1787 John Coxhead
1788 William Webb
1789-90 Anthony Woodroffe
1791-92 Moses Burche
1793 Thomas Viner
1794 James Blake
1795 John Church
1796 Robert Smith
1797 Francis Bear
1798 John Burgess
1799 John Bannister
1800 Thomas Pike
1801-03 Benjamin Salisbury
1804 Thomas Atherton
1805 John Brown
1806-07 John Westall
1808 Thomas Banbury
1809 George Bulpit
1810 George Bathe Cundell
1811 Robert Smith
1812 Thomas Major
1813 John Purdue
1814-15 Thomas Reeves
1816 William Alexander
1817 Thomas Viner
1818 Richard Lye
1819 Charles Salisbury
1820 Richard Barker
1821 John Westall
1822 Jonathan Bird
1823 Robert Lye
1824-25 Thomas Major
1826 Richard Dyer
1827 William Millis
1828-29 William Barnes
1830-33 George Earle
1834 John Westall
1835 Thomas Viner
1836-37 Robert Lye
1838 William Marchment
1839-40 George Bathe Cundell
1841 William Barnes
1842-43 William Alexander
1844-45 Daniel Allen
1846-47 Joseph Townsend Gray
1848 James Bodman
1849 Charles Low
1850 John Beard
1851-52 Richard Hemstead Barker
1853-54 Richard Killick
1855-56 Thomas Wooldridge
1857-60 John Platt
1861-63 George Martin
1864-65 Charles Crook
1866-67 John Walker
1868-71 Thomas Hutchins
1872-75 Henry John Beard
1876 John Matthew
1877 Harry Pike Major
1878 John Adnams
1879-80 Thomas Alexander
1881-88 John Platt, jnr
1889-93 Thomas Fruen
1894-96 Alfred Buckeridge
1897-00 George Platt
1901-02 William Alexander
1903-04 William Taylor
1905-06 Thomas Freeman
1907-08 Harry Pike Major MD
1909-11 Alfred Allright
1912-13 John Adnams
1914-18 Thomas Alexander
1919 Louis Beard
1920 Walter Dickson MD
1921 John Tyler
1922-26 Alfred Bartholomew
1927-28 Henry Taylor
1929-31 Edward Gingell
1932-35 T.G. Starkey-Smith MD
1936-40 Ernest Munford
1941-44 William Raine
1945-46 Edward Pratt
1947-49 Joseph Alexander
1950-56 Humphrey Fairfax-Harvey
1957-58 Ernest Moore
1958-59 Edwin Philip Spackman
1960-61 Richard Bartholomew
1962-64 Albert Wyatt
1965-66 Humphrey Hope
1967-69 John Pallett
1970-71 Eric (Jim) Davis
1972-74 John Newton
1975-77 Hugh Hassall
1978-80 Robert James
1981-83 John Hathway
1984-85 Roger King
1986-88 Col Donald Macey
1989-90 Dennis Cryer
1991-92 John Newton
1993-95 Stewart Hofgartner
1996-99 Bruce Mayhew
2000-02 Tyrell A.K. Bossom
2003-05 Jonathan C. Roots
2006 Robin Tubb
2007-09 Barbara Barr
2010-12 Greg Furr
2013-15 Susan Hofgartner
2016-2018 Ellie Dickins
2019-Sep 2020 Nicholas Lumley
Sep 2020-2021 Greg Furr
2021-Oct 2022 Peter Joseph (Retired due to ill-health)
Oct 2022-present Julie Lloyd
See also:
- "Aspects of the Early History of Hungerford", Norman Hidden, 2009
The Canal Wharf, 2011