Archdeacon of Sarum

High Medieval

Archdeacons in Salisbury diocese:

• ?–bef. 1085: Gunter of Le Mans^{[N 1]}
• bef. 1089–aft. 1089: Robert (probably archdeacon in Berks)^{[N 1]}
• bef. 1099–1121 (res.): Everard of Calne (became Bishop of Norwich)^{[N 1]}
• bef. 1099–bef. 1122 (d.): Hubald (probably archdeacon in Dorset)^{[N 1]}
• bef. 1121–aft. 1122: Joel^{[N 1]}
• bef. 1121–1123 (res.): Alexander of Lincoln (became Bishop of Lincoln)^{[N 1]}
• ?–1133 (res.): Nigel (became Bishop of Ely)^{[N 1]}

Archdeacons of Salisbury:

• bef. 1133–bef. 1139: Ernald (probably Ernald, later Abbot of Kelso and Bishop of St Andrews)^{[N 2]}
• bef. 1153–aft. 1154: Henry^{[N 2]}
• bef. 1157–aft. 1173: Jordan (probably later Dean of Salisbury)^{[N 2]}
• bef. 1184–aft. 1174: Savaric FitzGeldewin (also Archdeacon of Northampton)^{[N 2]}
• bef. 1180–aft. 1191: Azo
• bef. 1193–aft. 1238: Humphrey of Bassingbourn or de Bassingeburn (previously Archdeacon of Wilts)
• bef. 1241–aft. 1244: Stephen
• bef. 1245–aft. 1271: Nicholas de Capella
• bef. 1275–aft. 1307: Thomas Wychampton or de Wickhampton (alias de Grano)

Late Medieval

• bef. 1309–aft. 1328: Walter Hervy or Hervey
• ?–1309: Raymond de Planell (never gained possession)
• c. 1312: Raymond Cardinal de Fargis (cardinal-deacon of Santa Maria Nova; claimant)
• bef. 1329–bef. 1348 (d.): Robert Luffenham
• 11 July–25 October 1330: Richard de Bury or d'Aungerville (unsuccessful royal grant; revoked)
• bef. 1348–bef. 1361 (d.): Roger de Kington
• 5 September 1361–aft. 1375: Roger de Cloune
• bef. 1383–1 July 1384 (exch.): Thomas Butiller
• 1 July 1384 – 1402: William Potyn (unsuccessful exchange)
• 1400–1402 (d.): Walter FitzPiers (royal grant)
• 1402–14 December 1404 (exch.): Henry Chichele
• 14–26 December 1404 (exch.): Walter Medford (became Archdeacon of Berkshire)
• 26 December 1404 – 1418 (res.): Simon Sydenham (became Dean of Salisbury)
• 18 April 1418–bef. 1419 (d.): John Holand
• bef. 1419–1419 (d.): John Chitterne
• 9 September 1419 – 1420 (res.): John Stafford
• 7 December 1420 – 1426 (res.): William Alnwick (became Bishop of Norwich)
• 4 July 1426 – 1432 (res.): Alexander Sparrow (became Archdeacon of Berkshire)
• 24 September 1432 – 1433 (res.): John Norton (became Archdeacon of Berkshire)
• 18 October 1433–aft. 1435: Stephen Wilton
• bef. 1439–1441 (res.): Adam Moleyns (became Dean of Salisbury)
• 28 October 1441–bef. 1444 (res.): Richard Andrew
• 21 July 1444–bef. 1446 (res.): Peter Cardinal Barbo, cardinal-deacon of Santa Maria Nova

• 18 July 1446–bef. 1465 (d.): Richard Caunton
• 11 July 1465–bef. 1471 (d.): Roger Radclyffe
• 22 November 1471–?: William Eure
• ?–bef. 1499 (d.): Edmund Chaderton (also Archdeacon of Totnes from 1491 and Archdeacon of Chester from 1493)
• 22 August 1499 – 1503 (res.): Geoffrey Blythe (became Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield)
• 21 November 1503–bef. 1524 (d.): George Sydenham
• 2 March–April 1524 (d.): James Bromwich
• 10 April 1524–bef. 1526 (d.): Henry Rawlyns
• bef. 1535–bef. 1539 (d.): Richard Duck
• 2 August 1539 – 20 July 1546 (res.): Edward Layton

Early modern

• 20 July 1546–bef. 1554 (deprived): Robert Okinge (deprived)
• 6 July 1554–bef. 1583 (d.): Richard Chaundeler
• 20 January 1583 – 8 March 1615 (d.): Ralph Pickover
• 12 March 1615 – 25 May 1625 (d.): William Barlow
• 27 June 1625–bef. 1643 (d.): Thomas Marler
• 7 August 1643–?: William Buckner
• 24 January 1658 – 16 January 1664 (d.): Anthony Hawles
• 23 January 1664–bef. 1670 (d.): Joshua Childrey
• 30 September 1670 – 27 March 1671 (d.): John Sherman
• 10 May 1671 – 4 June 1674 (d.): John Priaulx
• 12 June 1674 – 29 December 1694 (d.): Thomas Lambert
• 14 January 1695 – 1 November 1710 (d.): Joseph Kelsey
• 6 November 1710 – 1727 (res.): John Hoadly (became Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin)
• 23 September 1727–bef. 1732 (res.): Joseph Sager
• 12 July 1732 – 2 May 1766 (d.): Samuel Rolleston
• 22 May 1766 – 14 May 1804 (d.): William Whitworth
• 9 June 1804 – 10 July 1827 (d.): Charles Daubeny
• 23 July 1827–bef. 1836 (res.): Liscombe Clarke
• 20 December 1836 – 1846 (res.): Francis Lear (became Dean of Salisbury)

From around the time of the 1843 reorganisation, the archdeaconry has become generally known as Sarum rather than Salisbury.

• 3 August 1846 – 31 December 1874 (res.): William Hony

Late modern

• 1875–19 February 1914 (d.): Francis Lear (son of the above)^[6]
• 1914–20 July 1936 (d.): Harry Carpenter^[7]
• 1936–1950 (ret.): Percy Dale (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)^[8]
• 1951–21 February 1968 (d.): Frank McGowan^[9]
• 1968–1979 (ret.): Basil Wingfield Digby^[10]
• 1979–1986 (res.): Nigel McCulloch (became Bishop suffragan of Taunton)^[11]
• 1986–1998 (res.): Barney Hopkinson (became Archdeacon of Wiltshire)^[12]
• 1998–2003: vacant
• 2003–present: Alan Jeans^[13]