The Forest of Dean Verderers

800 years of history

Former Verderers

Section 1.     Verderers from 1221 to 1873       [based on research by Dr Cyril Hart]

Date    Name

1221    Richard of Westbury, Richard of Blaisdon, Richard of Aston Ingham

1246    Henry Haket, Philip Bauderun, John of Bykerton, Walter of Pulton, William of Dunny

1282    Elias de Heydon, Philip of Hatersley, Robert de Leddene, Robert Malet, William de la Hythe, Roger le Bret, Alexander of Bicknor, William le Fawkener

1291    Ralph Ruddle, Richard of Pulton

1300    Ralph Hathewy, Simon of Framilode, Roger of Aldewick

1311    Richard White, William Holt of Boseleye

1326    Jon of Box, Walter Nasse, Richard Billing, William Lewelyn, William Gamage

1335    Richard Billing, Henry of Chaxhill

1341    Richard Viel, John of Okele

1358    John Heydon

1375    Walter of Aust

1389    Thomas Bray of Hurst, Richard Longe

1405    Walter Milward

1412    Richard Foxley

1424    Richard Grene of Westbury, John Shortgrove, William Grey

1426    Richard Penbrugge

1602    Thomas Burke, Charles Jones, William Brayne

1643    Warren Gough, Anthony Wye, John Berrow

1649    Thomas Berrow, Christopher Worgan, Andrew Horne, Arthur Rowles

1676    Sir Duncombe Colchester, William Cooke

1695    Edward Cooke, William Wolesley

1710    Nathaniel Pyrke, Francis Wyndham

1713    Maynard Colchester, Roynon Jones

1715    Thomas Pyrke

1716    Richard Machen

1721    Viscount Gage of Highmeadow, Richard Hacket

1724    Tomkins Macken

1734    Benjamin Bathurst

1743    John Probyn

1752    William Jones

1756    Thomas Crawley-Boevey

1773    Edmund Probyn

1776    Roynan Jones

1787    Sir John Guise

1804    Joseph Pyrke, Sir Berkeley Guise

1817    Maynard Colchester Junior

1819    Sir Thomas Crawley-Boevey

1835    Charles Bathurst

1849    Sir Martin Hyde Crawley-Boevey

1851    Duncombe Pyrke

1860    Edward Machen

1863    Edmund Probyn, Edward Owen Jones, Charles Bathurst Junior

1873    Sir Thomas Hyde Crawley-Boevey

Section 2.     Verderers from 1890 to present

Name
Elected
Died
Successor
Maynard W Colchester-Wemyss
1890
1930
Major Charles Ackers
James Russell Kerr
1894
1910
Nigel Jones
1st Viscount Bledisloe
1907
1958
2nd Viscount Bledisloe
Nigel Jones
1911
1915
Lt Col Russell Kerr
Sir Francis Brain
1912
1921
Sir Hyde Crawley
Boevey
Lt Col Sir Russell Kerr
1916
1952
Cyril Hart
Sir F Hyde Crawley Boevey
1922
1928
Sir Fortescue- Brickdale
Sir C Fortescue-Brickdale
1929
1944
Sir Lance Crawley Boevey
Major Charles Ackers
1930
1961
John Watts
Sir Lance Crawley-Boevey
1945
1968
Alderman Little
Dr C Hart
1952
2009
Maurice Bent
2nd Viscount Bledisloe
1959
1979
Melville Watts
John Watts
1961
1972
R Sanzen Baker
Alderman F Little
1969
1992
Bob Jenkins
R Sanzen Baker
1973
1992
Ray Wright
Melville Watts
1980
2010
Ian Standing
Ray Wright
1992
2015
Richard Daniels
Maurice Bent
2009
2021
Sue Middleton