ST GEORGE'S HANOVER SQUARE
History - Rectors of St. George's
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2005 Roderick Neil Stephen Leece, BA,,MA,
December 2005 - Collation of the Reverend Roderick Leece as 13th Rector
Read Bishop of London's Sermon
Read Biography of Fr Roderick Leece
June 2004 Interregnum
2001 John Slater, M.A., S.T.M., Prebendary of St. Paul's (12th Rector of St George's)
1955 William Maynard Atkins, M.A., F.S.A. Prebendary of St. Paul's. (11th Rector of St George's)
Read Address from Memorial Service
1940 Hon. Stephen Henry Phillimore, M.C., M.A. Archdeacon of Middlesex.
1933 Henry Colville Montgomery Campbell, M.C., M.A. He vacated the living on his consecration as Bishop of Willesden in 1940. He was subsequently (and successively) Bishop of Kensington, Guildford and London.
1911 Norman Thicknesse, M.A. Prebendary of St. Paul's.
1891 David Anderson, M.A. Prebendary of St. Paul's.
1876 Edward Capel Cure, M.A. Also a Canon of Windsor. He continued the social work of his predecessor, opening the St. George's Institue in 1884.
1845 Henry Howarth, B.D. Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen. He reformed the Services at St. George's, instituting a weekly Communion Service, and was active in improving the condition of the poor in the parish.
1803 Robert Hodgson, M.A. He was also Vicar of Hillingdon; 1810-40; Archdeacon of St. Alban's, 1814-16; Dean of Chester, 1816-20; Dean of Carlisle, 1820-44. Through the marriage of his grand daughter to the Earl of Srathmore, he was an ancestor of the present Queen.
1774 Henry Reginald Courtenay, D.C.L. While Rector of St. George's, he was also Rector of Lee, Kent, 1773-94; Prebendary of Exeter, 1772-94; Bishop of Bristol, 1794-97; Bishop and Archdeacon of Exeter, 1797-1803. He was buried in the vault of Grosvenor Chapel.
1759 Charles Moss, D.D. He continued to hold the living on his appointment as Bishop of St. David's in 1766, but resigned on his elevation to the Bishopric of Bath and Wells in 1774.
1725 Andrew Trebeck, D.D. born 1681; educated Charterhouse and Christ Church, Oxford. Vicar of Croydon, 1720 - 27. With St. George's he also held the living of Shelley, Essex, where he was buried in 1759.