16.. Thomas Orpe, ejected from Stanton-Hine, preferred by Mr. Pelham Corbet to Battlefield, which was then worth 5 marks per annum.
1694. Roger Eddowes, curate; mar. 21 Jan. 1717, Elizabeth Young; died 1 May, 1728. His widow was buried 12 April, 1731.
1749. Leonard Hotchkiss, M.A., St. John’s Coll., Cambridge; for 19 years Headmaster of Shrewsbury School; died 12 November, 1771, aged 80; buried in S. Mary’s, Salop. Sarah, his wife, died in 1759, aged 81. His portrait is in the entrance hall at Shrewsbury School.
1772. Beaumont Dixie, of Emmanuel Coll., Cambridge; son of Rev. Beaumont Dixie and Elizabeth, dau. of Andrew Corbet, of Shrewsbury; vicar of St. Peter’s, Derby, 1773; died at Dalbury, co. Derby, 10 May, 1786; he mar. Margaret, dau. of Richard Shewin, and his eldest son, Sir Beaumout Dixie, succeeded in 1806 as sixth baronet.
1786. Edward Williams, M.A. and Fellow of All Souls’ College Oxford; the well-known Shropshire topographical collector; several of his MSS. are now in the British Museum; others were sold at Lord Berwick’s sale in 1843. He died 3 Jan. 1833, aged 70, and was buried on the south side of the church on the 10th.
1833. John Oliver Hopkins, M.A., of Magdalen College, Cambridge, vicar until 1851; afterwards vicar of St. Mary’s, Salop, 1852; died 1 August, 1853, buried in St. Mary’s Churchyard on the N.E. corner. His widow, Beatrice Julia, daughter of Egerton Leigh, esq., re-married in 1859 the Rev. Robert Linden Burton.
1852. Arthur James Pigott, B.A. and postmaster of Merton Coll., Oxford; 3rd son of the Rev. John Dryden Pigott, of Edgmond; born at Edgmond; rebuilt Uffington, and restored Battle field Church; resigned his incumbency, 1872; died at Uffington, 19 July, 1881, aged 64.
1872. Thomas Bainbridge, B.A., St. John’s Coll., Cambridge; vicar of Uffington 1872 to 1875, when the vicarages were divided.
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