1857. Edmund Donald Carr, B.A. Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Rector of Woolstaston 1865-1900. Died June, 1900.
1866. William George Clutton Nottley, Rector of Alpheton, Suffolk, 1876-8.
1876. William Henry Whitworth, M.A. and sometime fellow and tutor of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
1885. Henry Anderton. Vicar of Hopton Cangeford 1881, and of Garway 1883-4. Resigned in 1891, and went to live at Chester.
1891. Arthur William Benjamin Walmsley Watts, B.A. Selwyn College, Cambridge. Resigned 1892. Rector of Coates, 1901.
1892. Thomas Baker Aston, M.A. Christ Church, Oxford, Curate-in-Charge. Rector of Habberley since 1869. There was no Incumbent from 1892 to 1895.
1895. William Perry Ireland, M.A. Merton College, Oxford. Vicar of Peter’s Marland, 1897.
1896. Thomas Robert Glenn, L.Th. Univ. of Durham. The present Incumbent.
The Inventory of Church Goods made 11th August, 1549, shows that there were then at Rotlynchope “one chalyce off sylver parcell gilt, and one cruete of pewter, one vestment of crule, one crismatory, one altare cloth, one towell, and two bellys.” In 1553 there remained “to bellys, [one chalice of silver] with the patent thereunto”; and another return of 1553 gives “a chales of sylver, ij belles.” The Religious Census of Shropshire made in 1676, states that there were at Ratlinghope (in Pontesbury Deanery) 128 Conformists, no Papists, and 3 Nonconformists. These were the number of inhabitants over the age of sixteen. In 1727 William Mitton was patron of the perpetual curacy.
The Parish Register Abstract of 1831 contains the following account of the Ratlinghope Registers:—