{"id":199,"date":"2021-04-29T15:32:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T15:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pembrokefamilyofchurches.com\/?page_id=199"},"modified":"2021-05-05T19:47:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T19:47:07","slug":"the-rectors-of-pembroke","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pembrokefamilyofchurches.com\/?page_id=199","title":{"rendered":"The Rectors of Pembroke"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The Rectors of Pembroke<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#1623\">The Rectors of Pembroke, 1623 &#8211; 1693<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#1693\">The Rectors of Pembroke, 1693 &#8211; 1820<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#1820\">The Rectors of Pembroke, 1820 &#8211; 1996<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#1996\">The Rectors of Pembroke, 1996 &#8211; present<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"1623\">The Rectors of Pembroke, 1623 &#8211; 1693<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-205\" src=\"https:\/\/pembrokefamilyofchurches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Rectors-1623-1693.jpg\" alt=\"Rectors 1623-1693\" width=\"450\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pembrokefamilyofchurches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Rectors-1623-1693.jpg 1158w, https:\/\/pembrokefamilyofchurches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Rectors-1623-1693-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pembrokefamilyofchurches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Rectors-1623-1693-1024x581.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pembrokefamilyofchurches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Rectors-1623-1693-768x436.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The churchmanship of the various clerical appointments made by the Bermuda Company in the seventeenth-century non-conformist views and, over the life of the tended to select ministers to send to Bermuda from those who would not conform to the demands of the with Governor Moore in 1612, was apparently not even ordained in the Church of England. He left in 1617 and settled in Virginia where he became a came in 1614, was ordained, but had been imprisoned by Bishop Bancroft of London for involvement in a witchcraft case. Both of these spent some time in Pembroke in the days before, then he returned to England to write books urging reform of the Book o Common Prayer. He was one of the very few ordained Church of England priests who practiced in accord with the Book of Common Prayer (although with some modifications) in Bermuda until 1696. Hughes was a thoroughly conscientious priest and was some years the only cleric in the Island.<\/p>\n<p>The successors of these early ministers were all\u00a0non-conformist to the official practices of the Church\u00a0in London dealing with local dissent without\u00a0Marvel noted this fact in his poem, Bermudas, written\u00a0about 1645:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>What should we do but sing His praise,<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>That led us through the wat&#8217;ry maze,<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>Unto an isle so long unknown,<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>And yet far kinder than our own?<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>ere He the huge sea-monsters wracks,<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>That lift the deep upon their backs;<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>He lands us on a grassy stage,<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>Safe from storms, and prelat&#8217;s rage.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The security from episcopal interference was a\u00a0and Devonshire in 1623, refused to preach or\u00a0administer the sacraments in Pembroke Church\u00a0unless the pulpit was moved. From the record of\u00a0other brushes with authority which Staples had, it is\u00a0clear that he was of the Independent persuasion, and\u00a0put a greater emphasis on the preaching of the Word\u00a0than on the celebration of the Eucharist. To him,\u00a0and to others of his persuasion, the pulpit, not the\u00a0altar, should be the central focus of the church.<\/p>\n<p>It seems likely that the early settlers built the\u00a0first Pembroke church according to the pattern with\u00a0which they were familiar in England; an altar would\u00a0be placed in the east end in the sanctuary which was\u00a0separated from the body of the church by a screen.\u00a0The pulpit would be in the body but close to the\u00a0screen. Although Staples was threatened with a fine\u00a0for such arrogant behaviour, it is clear that the pulpit\u00a0was either moved or rebuilt to be the central focus of\u00a0the church (as in old Devonshire church), and\u00a0remained there until 1914, when the new chancel was\u00a0built. It is possible that the cedar board carrying the\u00a0date 1625 and shown in Plate 6 was part of a new\u00a0pulpit installed at that time in the central location\u00a0desired by Staples.<\/p>\n<p>Staples was ordered by the Company to\u00a0exchange livings in 1628 with Abraham Graham\u00a0who had just arrived and was temporarily in charge\u00a0of Hamilton and Smith&#8217;s. An interesting feature of\u00a0&#8216;this exchange was that the Governor and Council\u00a0allowed the exchange to be delayed until Staples was\u00a0able to gather his crop of vegetables from his glebe\u00a0and thus not lose the benefit of his planting.<\/p>\n<p>Graham was a more extreme Independent than\u00a0Staples, and demanded of the Governor that he\u00a0should hold the same authority over his church as\u00a0the Governor had in civil affairs; he was promptly\u00a0dismissed and sent back to England.<\/p>\n<p>In 1638, an informer told the Archbishop of\u00a0Canterbury that the greater part of the Company in\u00a0London, as well as the settlers in Bermuda, &#8216;are nonconformist,\u00a0and men opposite to the government\u00a0and discipline of the Church of England&#8217;. The\u00a0Company righteously responded that this was not so.\u00a0It stated that it had sent out books of homilies and\u00a0Books o Common Prayer, and that &#8216;a principal\u00a0enquiry of the Company [ of their clerical\u00a0appointments] is after their conformity to the\u00a0discipline of the Church of England&#8217;. In this year,\u00a0the Company sent out Nathaniel White to Pembroke\u00a0and Devonshire. He had preached a sermon against the activities of the bishops, and, as a consequence\u00a0he was forced to &#8216;leave his native country. The Company, however, demanded a bond of \u00a3200 so\u00a0that he would live peaceably and quietly and &#8216;follow\u00a0the orders and discipline&#8217; of the Church of England\u00a0for three years. During this time, &#8216;he was as hot a\u00a0zealot as possibly might or could be, both for the\u00a0Book o Common Prayer, as also for all other\u00a0ceremonies of the Church, as kneeling at the\u00a0Sacrament, cross in Baptism, ring in the marriage\u00a0service, and all other things whatsoever&#8217;. But after the term of the bond, he &#8216;turned upside down&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>He left Pembroke in 1642 for Sandys and\u00a0Southampton, and in 1644, he, in company with\u00a0most of his clerical colleagues, renounced their office\u00a0in the Church of England and established a covenanting\u00a0church of the same type as that established by\u00a0Independent ministers in Massachusetts. For a few\u00a0years after this event, all the parish churches were\u00a0without clergy, and the people wrote to England\u00a0expressing concern that there was no one to officiate\u00a0at a marriage ceremony nor baptise children, nor to\u00a0administer the Sacraments, because White&#8217;s group\u00a0would only minister to those who bound themselves\u00a0to the new covenanting church. Bermuda was in a\u00a0religious turmoil, resolved only when the Governor\u00a0and Council took advantage of a religious colonising\u00a0expedition to Eleuthera in the Bahamas and shipped\u00a0members of White&#8217;s church there between 1647 and 1649.<\/p>\n<p>There was also turmoil in England at this time\u00a0Parliament, waging a civil war against Charles I, had\u00a0begun to reform the Church of England. It abolished\u00a0bishops in January 1643, and, in June 1643, in return\u00a0for Scottish aid in the civil war, established the\u00a0Westminster Assembly to advise Parliament on a\u00a0ref armed Church of England along Scottish\u00a0Presbyterian lines. The two ministers sent out by the\u00a0Company in 1646 are the only ones to be described\u00a0by their contemporaries as Presbyterian. One of\u00a0them, William Viner, was appointed to Pembroke\u00a0and Devonshire and he began the earliest parish\u00a0register which has survived in Bermuda. The first\u00a0page of his register of baptisms is reproduced in plate\u00a07. He died in December 1649.<\/p>\n<p>In England, matters came to a head with the\u00a0unless the pulpit was moved. From the record of\u00a0other brushes with authority which Staples had, it is\u00a0clear that he was of the Independent persuasion, and\u00a0put a greater emphasis on the preaching of the Word\u00a0than on the celebration of the Eucharist. To him,\u00a0and to others of his persuasion, the pulpit, not the\u00a0altar, should be the central focus of the church.<\/p>\n<p>It seems likely that the early settlers built the\u00a0first Pembroke church according to the pattern with\u00a0which they were familiar in England; an altar would\u00a0be placed in the east end in the sanctuary which was\u00a0separated from the body of the church by a screen.\u00a0The pulpit would be in the body but close to the\u00a0screen. Although Staples was threatened with a fine\u00a0for such arrogant behaviour, it is clear that the pulpit\u00a0-was either moved or rebuilt to be the central focus of\u00a0the church (as in old Devonshire church), and\u00a0remained there until 1914 when the new chancel was\u00a0built. It is possible that the cedar board carrying the\u00a0date 1625 and shown in Plate 6 was part of a new\u00a0pulpit installed at that time in the central location\u00a0desired by Staples.<\/p>\n<p>Staples was ordered by the Company to\u00a0exchange livings in 1628 with Abraham Graham\u00a0who had just arrived and was temporarily in charge\u00a0of Hamilton and Smith&#8217;s. An interesting feature of\u00a0\u00b7 this exchange was that the Governor and Council\u00a0allowed the exchange to be delayed until Staples was\u00a0able to gather his crop of vegetables from his glebe\u00a0and thus not lose the benefit of his planting.\u00a0Graham was a more extreme Independent than\u00a0Staples, and demanded of the Governor that he\u00a0should hold the same authority over his church as\u00a0the Governor had in civil affairs; he was promptly\u00a0dismissed and sent back to England.<\/p>\n<p>In 1638, an informer told the Archbishop of\u00a0Canterbury that the greater part of the Company in\u00a0London, as well as the settlers in Bermuda, &#8216;are nonconformist,\u00a0and men opposite to the government\u00a0and discipline of the Church of England&#8217;. The\u00a0Company righteously responded that this was not so.<\/p>\n<p>It stated that it had sent out books of homilies and\u00a0Books o Common Prayer, and that &#8216;a principal\u00a0enquiry of the Company [ of their clerical\u00a0appointments] is after their conformity to the\u00a0discipline of the Church of England&#8217;. In this year,\u00a0the Company sent out Nathaniel White to Pembroke\u00a0and Devonshire. He had preached a sermon against\u00a0the activities of the bishops, and, as a consequence,\u00a0he was forced to &#8216;leave his native country&#8217;. The\u00a0Company, however, demanded a bond of \u00a3200 so\u00a0that he would live peaceably and quietly and &#8216;follow\u00a0the orders and discipline&#8217; of the Church of England\u00a0for three years. During this time, &#8216;he was as hot a\u00a0zealot as possibly might or could be, both for the\u00a0Book o Common Prayer, as also for all other\u00a0ceremonies of the Church, as kneeling at the\u00a0Sacrament, cross in Baptism, ring in the marriage\u00a0service, and all other things whatsoever&#8217;. But after\u00a0the term of the bond, he &#8216;turned upside down&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>He left Pembroke in 1642 for Sandys and\u00a0Southampton, and in 1644, he, in company with\u00a0most of his clerical colleagues, renounced their office\u00a0in the Church of England and established a covenanting\u00a0church of the ame type as that established by Independent ministers in Massachusetts. For a few\u00a0years after this event, all the parish churches were\u00a0without clergy, and the people wrote to England\u00a0expressing concern that there was no one to officiate\u00a0at a marriage ceremony nor baptise children, nor to\u00a0administer the Sacraments, because White&#8217;s group\u00a0would only minister to those who bound themselves\u00a0to the new covenanting church. Bermuda was in a\u00a0religious turmoil, resolved only when the Governor\u00a0and Council took advantage of a religious colonising\u00a0expedition to Eleuthera in the Bahamas and shipped\u00a0members of White&#8217;s church there between 1647 and\u00a01649.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-207\" src=\"https:\/\/pembrokefamilyofchurches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/earliest-parish-register.jpg\" alt=\"earliest parish register\" width=\"450\" height=\"592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pembrokefamilyofchurches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/earliest-parish-register.jpg 695w, https:\/\/pembrokefamilyofchurches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/earliest-parish-register-228x300.jpg 228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>There was also turmoil in England at this time.\u00a0Parliament, waging a civil war against Charles I, had\u00a0begun to reform the Church of England. It abolished\u00a0bishops in January 1643, and, in June 1643, in return\u00a0for Scottish aid in the civil war, established the\u00a0Westminster Assembly to advise Parliament on a\u00a0reformed Church of England along Scottish\u00a0Presbyterian lines. The two ministers sent out by the\u00a0Company in 1646 are the only ones to be described\u00a0by their contemporaries as Presbyterian. One of\u00a0them, William Viner, was appointed to Pembroke\u00a0and Devonshire and he began the earliest parish\u00a0register which has survived in Bermuda. The first\u00a0page of his register of baptisms is reproduced in Plate\u00a07. He died in December 1649.<\/p>\n<p>In England, matters came to a head with the execution of Charles I in January 1649, and the control of England by Oliver Cromwell&#8217;s army which was solidly Independent. This halted the plans for a reform of the Church of England on Presbyterian lines, and no formal reform of the Church was attempted beyond substituting the Directory of Public Worship, devised by the Westminster Assembly, for the Book o Common Prayer. The Book of Common Prayer was, in fact, proscribed, and any clergyman using it was ejected from his living. During the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell from 1653 to 1658, clergy were &#8216;approved&#8217; by a national Commission of Triers, since there were no bishops to ordain them and the Commission approved Presbyterians, Independents, and Baptists as ministers. Bermuda fared badly in this period with only two clerics sent out. One was Thomas Browne who was appointed to Pembroke and Devonshire in 1654; he served only until 1658 when he went to Jamaica.<\/p>\n<p>In 1660, the monarchy was restored in England with the invitation to Charles II to return as King. All of the legislation passed by the Long Parliament since 1641 was swept away, and the office of bishop was reinstated. The act of Plate 7. The first page of the earliest parish register, signed by William Viner, Minister, Francis Saltus, and Nathaniel Waterman, Churchwardens Uniformity was re-stated and passed in 1662. This required that all clergy be ordained by a bishop and that the clergy make a public declaration of their &#8216;unfeigned assent and consent&#8217; to the Book of Common Prayer. All incumbents of parishes in England had to comply with these terms by St. Bartholomew&#8217;s Day, 24 August 1662, or face ejection from their livings. There were many clergies who had been ejected because of their reluctance to use the Directory o Public Worship rather than the Book of Common Prayer, and they sought reinstatement in their former livings.<\/p>\n<p>The effect of these developments on the nonconformist\u00a0Bermuda Company was quite predictable.<\/p>\n<p>The large number of ejected clergy were potential\u00a0applicants for appointment to Bermuda, and the\u00a0Company filled all the vacant livings from this pool.\u00a0To Pembroke and Devonshire they sent Sampson\u00a0Bond, who arrived in January 1663 and remained\u00a0(with occasional absences from the Island) until he\u00a0died in 1692-nearly thirty years. Of all the clergy\u00a0appointed by the Company in this period, Bond is\u00a0the only one who had been formally ordained; he\u00a0had been ordained by Bishop Hall of Exeter in 1641,\u00a0just two years before the office of bishops had been\u00a0abolished by the Long Parliament. In practice,\u00a0however, he was Independent and, while in\u00a0Bermuda, made several attempts to obtain an\u00a0appointment to a church in Massachusetts. He was\u00a0twice dismissed by the Company because he was &#8216;of\u00a0a factious and contentious spirit&#8217;; yet he was twice\u00a0re-instated. A later Governor described him as &#8216;a\u00a0secret enemy to the quiet of this country; &#8230; he has\u00a0the turbulent spirits of the country for his friends&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the views of officials, Bond was well regarded\u00a0by his parishioners. At a meeting of them in\u00a0Pembroke in 1689, it was resolved that he be given\u00a0\u00a315 as &#8216;a gift &#8230; for this year&#8217;s salary&#8217;. At this time,\u00a0the Company, which had paid the stipends of the\u00a0clergy, had been dissolved, and the clergy did not\u00a0know who would be responsible for their salary in\u00a0the Company&#8217;s stead.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"1693\">The Rectors of Pembroke, 1693 &#8211; 1820<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-211 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/pembrokefamilyofchurches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Rector-1693-1820.jpg\" alt=\"Rector 1693 - 1820\" width=\"430\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pembrokefamilyofchurches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Rector-1693-1820.jpg 692w, https:\/\/pembrokefamilyofchurches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Rector-1693-1820-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Bermuda Company&#8217;s charter was called\u00a0in by the Courts in London in 1684, and\u00a0Bermuda became a Crown Colony. Her\u00a0affairs were then administered by a\u00a0Committee of the Privy Council known as the Lords\u00a0of Trade and Plantations. The Bishop of London was\u00a0a member of this Committee. At this time, he was\u00a0Henry Compton, one of the first Bishops of London. to take a major interest in recruiting clergy for the\u00a0colonies, and to attempt to re-establish the Church of\u00a0England there in accord with the Book of Common\u00a0Prayer. He established a bounty of \u00a320 to be paid to\u00a0each ordained priest who volunteered for colonial service.<\/p>\n<p>He could not visit the colonies himself but used the local Governor as his deputy to implement\u00a0his instructions. The pattern established by Bishop\u00a0Compton was clear: the Bishop of London would\u00a0license and appoint all clergy and schoolmasters to\u00a0the colonies, and the colonies would provide for\u00a0their stipend by legislation. In 1691 Governor\u00a0Richier drew this matter to the attention of\u00a0Bermuda&#8217;s House of Assembly, and in 1693 the\u00a0House passed the Act or settling a yearly Revenue\u00a0upon the Ministers of these Islands.<\/p>\n<p>In effect, this act determined that Bermuda\u00a0would be divided into three livings, and made\u00a0provision for three clergymen. St. George&#8217;s would be\u00a0one living, the parishes of Hamilton, Smith&#8217;s,\u00a0Devonshire, and Pembroke (known as the Eastern Parishes) would be the second, and the parishes of Paget, Warwick, Southampton, and Sandys (known as\u00a0the Western Parishes) the third. The act also\u00a0provided that the stipend for the cleric in the Eastern\u00a0and Western Parishes would be \u00a340 per annum, with\u00a0each of the member parishes contributing \u00a310 each,\u00a0raised by assessment. No significant alteration to\u00a0this act took place until 1820, and between 1693 and\u00a01820 Pembroke shared its rector with Devonshire,\u00a0Smith&#8217;s and Hamilton parishes. Consequently, the\u00a0churches generally had a service from the rector but\u00a0infrequently, and had to rely on lay readers for most\u00a0Sunday services.<\/p>\n<p>During the previous era, the Bermuda\u00a0Company had simply bound each cleric with a\u00a0contract much as it had done with officers of the\u00a0Company. Under the Bishop of London, this\u00a0changed, and gradually the official forms of clerical\u00a0institution and induction came into force. The\u00a0Bishop of London appointed (or instituted) the\u00a0clergyman to a living, and the local Governor, acting\u00a0as Ordinary, inducted him into real possession of the\u00a0living and to the rectory and other benefits such as\u00a0the glebe lands. The earliest induction document in\u00a0the records is that for John Clarke in 1737.<\/p>\n<p>The first appointment to Pembroke and the\u00a0Eastern Parishes under this new scheme was\u00a0Bartholomew Wormell. He arrived in about August\u00a01698 but was dismissed by the House of Assembly in April 1699, which declared that he &#8216;has both very\u00a0lately, and oft formerly, by repeated bad acts\u00a0dishonoured his function by ill and irregular life&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Following this inauspicious beginning, Pembroke\u00a0and the Eastern Parishes had a number of individuals\u00a0as rectors, punctuated with periods when they\u00a0had no rector at all, as outlined in the summary table\u00a0above. Until Alexander Ewing was inducted in 1791,\u00a0none of these rectors stayed for more than ten years,\u00a0and some died in office. Space does not permit a full\u00a0biography of each one, and, indeed, very little is\u00a0known about some of them. Robert Barron (1701-1704) was ill-suited for the relatively primitive and\u00a0pioneer-type of life in Bermuda and was ill for most\u00a0of his stay. He complained\u00b7 in London that the\u00a0parishioners were not hospitable.<\/p>\n<p>William King\u00a0(1715-1721) came first as a schoolmaster but went to London to be ordained and returned to the\u00a0Eastern Parishes. He died in office and, for some\u00a0reason, is buried in Paget.<\/p>\n<p>William Nairn (1722-1727) was one of the\u00a0more litigious incumbents. He brought actions at the\u00a0Assizes against John Masters and against Capt. John\u00a0Butterfield for slander, but the court decided that\u00a0Bermuda law did not provide for legal action in such\u00a0circumstances and dismissed the cases. Nairn was\u00a0suspected of having Roman Catholics sympathies but\u00a0refused to take the oaths demonstrating his\u00a0allegiance to the principle of Protestant succession to\u00a0the throne of England. As a consequence, the\u00a0church was locked against him and his salary was\u00a0stopped. He relented and took the oaths and was\u00a0reinstated. He then left &#8216;abruptly&#8217; for Virginia where\u00a0he held the Huguenot parish of Manakin, but\u00a0remained there only a year before returning to\u00a0England.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Chapple (1743-1744) was held in\u00a0high regard but died after but a year in Bermuda.<\/p>\n<p>James Holiday (1745-1754) was a Yorkshireman and\u00a0a conscientious priest who travelled from St. David&#8217;s\u00a0to Somerset when needed: He kept a diary of which\u00a0only a fragment has survived, but this fragment\u00a0shows a keen inquiring mind with great interest in\u00a0the education of the Blacks. He acted as host to t Methodist missionary, George Whitefield, when he\u00a0visited the Island in March 1748, and invited him to\u00a0take his pulpit before the Governor reluctantly had\u00a0to close the parish churches to Whitfield because he\u00a0could not produce his clerical licence.<\/p>\n<p>John Feveryear, who came in 1756 and left in\u00a01766 for a better position in Beaufort, South\u00a0Carolina, was Pembroke&#8217;s first American rector,\u00a0having been born in Boston; he was a Harvard\u00a0graduate. He also kept a school as many of the\u00a0rectors did.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Lyttleton came from England in 1767,\u00a0and his churchmanship was stricter than most of his\u00a0predecessors and successors. He re-established the\u00a0centrality of the Eucharist in worship and was responsible for urging the Pembroke parishioners to\u00a0have a &#8216;communion table and altar&#8217; built. Lyttleton\u00a0was also full of grand plans for reviving Bishop\u00a0Berkeley&#8217;s scheme for a college in Bermuda and presented proposals to the House of Assembly where\u00a0they were politely received and left to lie upon the\u00a0table. Lyttleton left to return to England in\u00a0November 1775.<\/p>\n<p>James Barker (1783-1791) had been expected\u00a0Plate 8. A page from Ewing&#8217;s personal register for\u00a0the year 1 794 from 11 February to 4 April\u00a0to maintain a school as well as serving as rector. He\u00a0appears to have been more interested in farming\u00a0cotton on the glebe, and the parishioners promptly\u00a0reduced his salary.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-217 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/pembrokefamilyofchurches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Personal-Register-1794.jpg\" alt=\"Personal Register 1794\" width=\"450\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pembrokefamilyofchurches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Personal-Register-1794.jpg 609w, https:\/\/pembrokefamilyofchurches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Personal-Register-1794-227x300.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>Alexander Ewing (1791-1820) was a Scot from\u00a0Edinburgh, who had graduated from the University\u00a0Edinburgh with the intention of becoming a\u00a0schoolmaster or a minister in the Church of\u00a0Scotland. Unfortunately, he suffered from an\u00a0impediment in his speech which lessened his\u00a0chances of success in either profession in Scotland.\u00a0However, he answered an advertisement for a\u00a0schoolmaster in Sandys parish and, when accepted,\u00a0set out in 1780. His ship was captured by an\u00a0American privateer, and the passengers were landed\u00a0in St. Eustatius. He was there when Admiral Rodney\u00a0captured the island, and subsequently found passage\u00a0to Bermuda, arriving in March 1781. The Bermuda\u00a0climate agreed with him, and his speech impediment\u00a0vanished.<\/p>\n<p>In 1787, he went to England and was ordained\u00a0By the Archbishop of Canterbury (since the Bishop of\u00a0London was at that time ill) and was licensed for\u00a0Bermuda service. He returned in 1788, but since There were no livings vacant, he resumed his school\u00a0with a tacit agreement with Governor Hamilton that\u00a0would be offered the first living when available.<\/p>\n<p>Pembroke and the Eastern Parishes became vacant\u00a0with the death of the incumbent, James Barker in\u00a01791, and Ewing was inducted in all the parishes of the Eastern living.\u00a0Ewing quickly won approbation from all his\u00a0parishes, and Pembroke made him a compliment in\u00a01794 of a quarter-cask of Madeira wine &#8216;of a quality\u00a0not inferior to New York Particular, in consideration\u00a0of [his] services with which his parishioners have\u00a0heretofore had great reason to be satisfied&#8217;. In 1796\u00a0he wrote to the churchwardens of all his parishes,\u00a0pointing out that the cost of living had increased\u00a0since 1693 when the stipends of the clergy were set\u00a0by the act of that date and suggested that since the parishioners would expect him to make &#8216;a decent\u00a0appearance&#8217;, he should have an increase in salary.<\/p>\n<p>The parishes did not refuse, and when he retired in\u00a01820, the House of Assembly, in an unprecedented\u00a0move, resolved to settle a pension on him. In 1806\u00a0he found himself to be the only cl erg an in the\u00a0Island and served all the parishes. His personal\u00a0record of baptisms, marriages, and burials is a\u00a0valuable source for the genealogist (Plate 8.). He also continued to teach school in his rectory, and a large\u00a0number of later leaders of the country learned their\u00a0&#8216;3-R&#8217;s&#8217; from him.<\/p>\n<p>On Ewing&#8217;s death in October 1822, Charles\u00a0Rollin Beach, the Editor of the Bermuda Gazette,\u00a0printed a laudatory tribute to the former rector and\u00a0in capitals across the centre of the eulogy he printed:\u00a0&#8216;We ne&#8217;er shall look upon his like again&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"1820\">The Rectors of Pembroke, 1820 &#8211; 1996<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-220 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/pembrokefamilyofchurches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Rectors-1820-to-Present.jpg\" alt=\"Rectors 1820 to Present\" width=\"450\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pembrokefamilyofchurches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Rectors-1820-to-Present.jpg 680w, https:\/\/pembrokefamilyofchurches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Rectors-1820-to-Present-290x300.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With the dawn of the nineteenth century,\u00a0winds of change were blowing over\u00a0Bermuda. Even the editor of the Bermuda\u00a0Gazette felt that religion was much\u00a0neglected and &#8216;vice and immorality prevail so rapidly\u00a0among us&#8217;, and urged a reform of the system of\u00a0church livings. The parishes objected to the\u00a0increased cost of providing more clergy, but\u00a0Governor Lumley, shortly after his arrival in 1819,\u00a0persuaded the House of Assembly to amend the act\u00a0of 1693. This they did with the act of 1820 which\u00a0returned Bermuda to the distribution of livings\u00a0established by the Bermuda Company in the\u00a0seventeenth century Under this act, the Eastern\u00a0Parish was divided into two livings, Pembroke and\u00a0Devonshire being one, and Smith&#8217;s and Hamilton\u00a0parishes comprising the other. The act also\u00a0stipulated that the incumbents of these new livings\u00a0were &#8216;to perform service, and the usual duties, on\u00a0every Sunday, alternately in the forenoon and\u00a0afternoon, in the parish church of each of the\u00a0parishes composing his living&#8217;. The Public Treasury\u00a0would pay each incumbent a stipend of \u00a3200 per annum on receipt of a certificate from each parish\u00a0vestry that he had resided in the parish and\u00a0performed duties according to the act.<\/p>\n<p>Ewing gave notice that because of his ill health\u00a0he would resign as soon as the act became law, and\u00a0George Coster was inducted to succeed him in May\u00a01820. Coster had come to Bermuda as a\u00a0schoolmaster with a number of his brothers and\u00a0sisters, and the family opened a school in the new\u00a0town of Hamilton. He was appointed in 1819 to be\u00a0the first Master of the new Devonshire College which\u00a0had been established by the House of Assembly in\u00a01816, and, as it was a requirement of the position of\u00a0Master that the incumbent be an ordained priest of\u00a0the Church of England, Coster went back to England<\/p>\n<p>to be ordained. When he returned, he informed the\u00a0trustees of Devonshire College that he preferred to\u00a0succeed Ewing in the new living of Devonshire and\u00a0Pembroke. He was inducted on 13 May 1820, and\u00a0remained as rector until 1824 when he went to\u00a0Newfoundland as a missionary; he was appointed\u00a0Archdeacon in the next year. He subsequently\u00a0moved to New Brunswick in 1829 as Archdeacon of\u00a0that province and remained there until he died in\u00a01859.<\/p>\n<p>In 1825, Bermuda and Newfoundland were\u00a0transferred from the jurisdiction of the Bishop of\u00a0London to the Diocese of Nova Scotia coincident\u00a0with the consecration of the third bishop of that\u00a0diocese, John Inglis. Bishop Inglis determined to\u00a0visit all parts of his enormous diocese and paid his first visit to Bermuda in April 1826. He visited each\u00a0church in turn and formally consecrated them. He\u00a0visited Pembroke Church on 16 April 1826 and\u00a0consecrated it with the name of St. John. Each of\u00a0these visits was a gala day for the parish; it was the\u00a0first visit by a bishop in the history of the colony, and\u00a0it was the first time that the confirmation service was\u00a0used. In Pembroke, Bishop Inglis confirmed 122\u00a0candidates and noted in his diary that they were &#8216;of\u00a0devout and very feeling appearance&#8217; and were &#8216;of full\u00a0age, and many of them communicants&#8217;. The\u00a0candidates in Pembroke included one black person.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Inglis took a particular interest in the black\u00a0population and urged enlargement of the churches \u00b7 to\u00b7 accommodate them. He made several visits to\u00a0Bermuda and confirmed many of them.<\/p>\n<p>In April 1839, the large and unwieldy diocese\u00a0of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and Bermuda was<\/p>\n<p>split into two with the formation of a new Diocese of\u00a0Newfoundland and Bermuda; Aubrey George\u00a0Spencer, formerly the Archdeacon of Bermuda and\u00a0Rector of Paget and Warwick, was consecrated as its\u00a0first bishop. Spencer served until 1843 when he was\u00a0translated to the See of Jamaica. He was succeeded\u00a0by Bishop Edward Feild.\u00a0Joseph Fraser Lightbourn was inducted into\u00a0the living comprising Devonshire and Pembroke in\u00a0January 1827. He had been ordained Deacon in St.\u00a0George&#8217;s by Bishop Inglis in April 1826 during the\u00a0bishop&#8217;s first visit to Bermuda; he was the first to be\u00a0so ordained in the Island. Lightbourn went to\u00a0Halifax, Nova Scotia, in November 1826 to be\u00a0ordained priest by Bishop Inglis and returned to\u00a0begin a long service as Rector of Devonshire and\u00a0Pembroke, terminated only by his death. He made a\u00a0particular effort to minister to the black population\u00a0particularly after Emancipation in 1834, and his\u00a0register records many of their marriages and\u00a0baptisms.<\/p>\n<p>He was a busy man because the new town of Hamilton was rapidly becoming a bustling business centre, and the population of Pembroke was rapidly increasing. His registers of baptisms, marriages and burials show clearly that Pembroke\u00a0had the largest number of these events in the Island. He was a popular rector and is one of the few\u00a0to have bestowed upon him a nickname, &#8216;Pa Josey&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>He was active in his office when he died in February 1872 in his 70th year.\u00a0It so happened that Bishop Feild was making\u00a0one of his regular visitations to Bermuda at the time\u00a0that Lightbourn died, and the bishop put off his\u00a0return to Newfoundland to act as rector until he had\u00a0appointed Lightbourn&#8217;s successor, the Rev. Mark\u00a0James, and knew that James was on his way to\u00a0Bermuda from his previous appointment in the Turks\u00a0Islands. James was inducted in December 1872 and\u00a0served until his death in May 1898. He was appointed\u00a0Canon of the Bermuda Cathedral when it\u00a0was so styled by an act of the Legislature in 1894.<\/p>\n<p>James was succeeded by James Davidson, who\u00a0had come to Bermuda in 1894 to be the first Canon\u00a0Residentary of the Bermuda Cathedral. He was\u00a0inducted in July 1898. Davidson, like his\u00a0predecessor, was well regarded by the parishioners\u00a0who were sympathetic to his requests for leave for\u00a0health reasons, and when he resigned in 1903, a\u00a0committee was appointed to ask if he would\u00a0withdraw his resignation and continue if given a\u00a0whole year&#8217;s leave of absence. Davidson did not feel that he could comply with the parishioner&#8217;s wishes\u00a0and Alfred Stunden was appointed and inducted in\u00a0July 1903.<\/p>\n<p>He had been curate to Davidson since\u00a01901, and served until he resigned in 1906.\u00a0Stunden&#8217;s successor was again James Davidson, who\u00a0had been enticed to return; Davidson was reinducted\u00a0in July 1906 and served until 1921. During\u00a0his tenure of office he established Sunday Schools a\u00a0St. Monica&#8217;s (1907), St. Alban&#8217;s (1907), and St.\u00a0Augustine&#8217;s (1909), and developed the Guilds for St.\u00a0John&#8217;s, St. Monica&#8217;s, St. Alban&#8217;s, and St. Augustine&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>He also started the Pembroke and Devonshire Parochial\u00a0Magazine which had its first issue in November\u00a01906. This was a neatly printed magazine which\u00a0appeared monthly. It ceased publication in 1915\u00a0under the pressures of World War I.<\/p>\n<p>The Synod proposed to recommend to the\u00a0bishop that Canon William James Franklin Groves\u00a0be inducted as Davidson&#8217;s successor. The vestry\u00a0concurred for Groves was well known, having been\u00a0curate at Pembroke since 1910. Groves was inducted\u00a0on 1 July 1921. He was the first rector to serve\u00a0Pembroke without serving Devonshire also,\u00a0benefiting from the Church Livings (Pembroke and\u00a0Devonshire) Act of 1921 which divided Pembroke\u00a0and Devonshire into two livings. He was also the\u00a0first rector to occupy the new rectory, &#8216;Maria&#8217;s Hill&#8217;, in\u00a01926. Ill-health forced his retirement in July 1935,\u00a0and St. John&#8217;s was without a rector until 23 February\u00a01936 when Eustace Mordaunt Strong was inducted.<\/p>\n<p>Strong served until his death in September 1949. He\u00a0was active among the youth and established the link with the Saltus Grammar School. Two alms basins\u00a0\u00b7 and a chalice were given to the church in his\u00a0memory by the congregation and the silver reading\u00a0desk on the pulpit was also given in his memory by\u00a0Maud and Morris Gibbons.<\/p>\n<p>Almost three years elapsed before Strong&#8217;s\u00a0successor was appointed. For most of this period, the Rev. David S. Evans acted as priest-in-charge,\u00a0largely by himself until September 1950 when the\u00a0Rev. WJ. Manning came to assist. Evans left in\u00a0November 1951, and Manning served until Edward\u00a0Nowel Bewes Chapman was inducted on 23 July\u00a01952. He served until he resigned in 1965, and he\u00a0died in 1966.<\/p>\n<p>Chapman was, in the words of his successor, &#8216;a\u00a0modest man. He made no claims to be successful\u00a0and he never boasted. He was a quiet man, yet he\u00a0always arrived. On many occasions, by quiet\u00a0perseverance, he succeeded where others may have\u00a0failed.&#8217; The gifts made to the church in his memory\u00a0are indicative of the regard the parishioners held for\u00a0him: an Altar Missal, given by the choir; a new\u00a0lectern in St. Alban&#8217;s Sunday School, given by the\u00a0teachers and scholars; new pews for the memorial\u00a0chapel; and the window given by the St. Alban&#8217;s\u00a0Guild and their friends.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Peel was inducted on All Saints Day, 1\u00a0November 1965. He had been rector of Sandys for\u00a0five years before transferring to Pembroke. Before\u00a0his appointment at Sandys, he had been rector at\u00a0Kingston, Jamaica. Peel began the parish newsletter\u00a0shortly after induction. This newsletter filled both\u00a0sides of a foolscap sheet, single-spaced. Each letter\u00a0was cast as a personal letter to each parishioner with\u00a0chatty details about church affairs and of the news of\u00a0the day. Under his rectorship, a greater amount of\u00a0ceremonial was introduced, and through his\u00a0newsletter and sermons he carefully explained the\u00a0reason and significance of each new ceremonial as he\u00a0introduced it. His wife died in 1967, and he retired\u00a0in May 1972 to take a less demanding appointment\u00a0in France.<\/p>\n<p>Maurice Samuel Wheatley succeeded Peel and\u00a0was inducted on 24 August 1972. Wheatley had\u00a0been an army chaplain in the North African\u00a0campaign in World War II, the principal of a\u00a0theological college in Madagascar, and had been\u00a0Youth and Education Secretary for the United Society\u00a0for the Propagation of the Gospel, in which capacity\u00a0he had trained and sent out some 1500 persons for\u00a0missionary posts. He continued the newsletter\u00a0started by Peel, investing it with his own personality.<\/p>\n<p>He retired in April 1980 at the age of 67 and\u00a0returned to England.\u00a0Wheatley&#8217;s successor and present incumbent\u00a0was Alexander Ewen Ratteray who was inducted on\u00a020 June 1980. Ratteray was Pembroke&#8217;s first\u00a0Bermuda-born rector, and its first black rector as\u00a0well. He had been ordained deacon at the Bermuda\u00a0Cathedral in December 1965, and priest at the parish\u00a0church of St. Peter and St. Leonard in Horbury, West Yorkshire, England in December 1966.<\/p>\n<p>He had been\u00a0serving as Rector in Yorkshire before returning to\u00a0Bermuda and St. John&#8217;s. Under his direction, the\u00a0character of the newsletters changed. He abandoned\u00a0the chatty prose of his predecessors in favour of\u00a0short, straightforward statements. His leadership of\u00a0the parish differed from that of his predecessors,\u00a0particularly in its directness, but was no less effective\u00a0and caring. He was elevated to the position of\u00a0Archdeacon of the Diocese on the retirement of the\u00a0farmer Archdeacon, Thomas Dyson, and has\u00a0organized the celebrations of the 375th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>He was elected Bishop of Bermuda by The Synod on\u00a020 April 1996; his consecration by the Archbishop of\u00a0Canterbury is scheduled for 19 May 1996.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"1996\">The Rectors of Pembroke, 1996 &#8211; present<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wptb-container-legacy\" data-table-id=\"341\">\n    <table class=\"wptb-preview-table wptb-element-main-table_setting-341 edit-active\" data-reconstraction=\"1\" style=\"border: 1px solid rgb(209, 209, 209);\" data-wptb-table-tds-sum-max-width=\"344\" data-wptb-cells-width-auto-count=\"2\" data-wptb-extra-styles=\"LyogRW50ZXIgeW91ciBjdXN0b20gQ1NTIHJ1bGVzIGhlcmUgKi8=\" role=\"table\" data-table-columns=\"3\"><tbody><tr class=\"wptb-row\"><td class=\"wptb-cell\" data-y-index=\"0\" data-x-index=\"0\" style=\"border: 1px solid rgb(209, 209, 209); width: 50px;\"><div class=\"wptb-text-container wptb-ph-element wptb-element-text-1\"><div class=\"\" style=\"position: relative;\"><p>1996 - 2000<\/p><p><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td><td class=\"wptb-cell\" data-y-index=\"0\" data-x-index=\"1\" style=\"border: 1px solid rgb(209, 209, 209);\" data-wptb-css-td-auto-width=\"true\"><div class=\"wptb-text-container wptb-ph-element wptb-element-text-2\"><div class=\"\" style=\"position: relative;\"><p>Revd. Dr. Partick White<\/p><p><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td><td class=\"wptb-cell\" data-y-index=\"0\" data-x-index=\"2\" style=\"border: 1px solid rgb(209, 209, 209);\" data-wptb-css-td-auto-width=\"true\"><div class=\"wptb-text-container wptb-ph-element wptb-element-text-3\"><div class=\"\" style=\"position: relative;\"><p><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td><\/tr><tr class=\"wptb-row\"><td class=\"wptb-cell\" data-y-index=\"1\" data-x-index=\"0\" style=\"border: 1px solid rgb(209, 209, 209); width: 50px;\"><div class=\"wptb-text-container wptb-ph-element wptb-element-text-31\"><div class=\"\" style=\"position: relative;\"><p>2001 - 2005<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td><td class=\"wptb-cell\" data-y-index=\"1\" data-x-index=\"1\" style=\"border: 1px solid rgb(209, 209, 209);\" data-wptb-css-td-auto-width=\"true\"><div class=\"wptb-text-container wptb-ph-element wptb-element-text-5\"><div class=\"\" style=\"position: relative;\"><p>Gary S. Coville<\/p><p><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td><td class=\"wptb-cell\" data-y-index=\"1\" data-x-index=\"2\" style=\"border: 1px solid rgb(209, 209, 209);\" data-wptb-css-td-auto-width=\"true\"><div class=\"wptb-text-container wptb-ph-element wptb-element-text-6\"><div class=\"\" style=\"position: relative;\"><p><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td><\/tr><tr class=\"wptb-row\"><td class=\"wptb-cell\" data-y-index=\"2\" data-x-index=\"0\" style=\"border: 1px solid rgb(209, 209, 209); width: 50px;\"><div class=\"wptb-text-container wptb-ph-element wptb-element-text-7\"><div class=\"\" style=\"position: relative;\"><p>2005 - 2013<\/p><p><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td><td class=\"wptb-cell\" data-y-index=\"2\" data-x-index=\"1\" style=\"border: 1px solid rgb(209, 209, 209);\" data-wptb-css-td-auto-width=\"true\"><div class=\"wptb-text-container wptb-ph-element wptb-element-text-8\"><div class=\"\" style=\"position: relative;\"><p>Nicolas B. B. Dill<\/p><p><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td><td class=\"wptb-cell\" data-y-index=\"2\" data-x-index=\"2\" style=\"border: 1px solid rgb(209, 209, 209);\" data-wptb-css-td-auto-width=\"true\"><div class=\"wptb-text-container wptb-ph-element wptb-element-text-9\"><div class=\"\" style=\"position: relative;\"><p><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td><\/tr><tr class=\"wptb-row\"><td class=\"wptb-cell\" data-y-index=\"3\" data-x-index=\"0\" style=\"border: 1px solid rgb(209, 209, 209); width: 50px;\"><div class=\"wptb-text-container wptb-ph-element wptb-element-text-10\"><div class=\"\" style=\"position: relative;\"><p>2014 -&nbsp;<\/p><p><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td><td class=\"wptb-cell\" data-y-index=\"3\" data-x-index=\"1\" style=\"border: 1px solid rgb(209, 209, 209);\" data-wptb-css-td-auto-width=\"true\"><div class=\"wptb-text-container wptb-ph-element wptb-element-text-11\"><div class=\"\" style=\"position: relative;\"><p>Canon Kenneth Leonczyk Jr.<\/p><p><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td><td class=\"wptb-cell\" data-y-index=\"3\" data-x-index=\"2\" style=\"border: 1px solid rgb(209, 209, 209);\" data-wptb-css-td-auto-width=\"true\"><div class=\"wptb-text-container wptb-ph-element wptb-element-text-12\"><div class=\"\" style=\"position: relative;\"><p><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td><\/tr><tr class=\"wptb-row\"><td class=\"wptb-cell\" data-y-index=\"4\" data-x-index=\"0\" style=\"border: 1px solid rgb(209, 209, 209); 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