List of chaplains of the Levant Company

The Levant Company, an English chartered company formed in 1581, employed chaplains in some cities of the Eastern Mediterranean.

Source: List of British Consular Officials in Turkey (1581-1860) (PDF).

Chaplains at Aleppo[edit]

• 1597-1600 ? Maye
• 1600–1608 William Biddulph
• 1624–1630 Charles Robson
• 1630–1635 Edward Pococke
• 1636 -? Thomas Pritchett
• 1641–1645 Bartholemew Chapple
• 1650-1654 Nathaniel Hill
• 1655–1670 Robert Frampton
• 1671–1681 Robert Huntington
• 1681-1687 John Guise
• 1688–1694 William Hallifax
• 1695–1701 Henry Maundrell
• 1701-1703 Henry Brydges
• 1703-1706 Harrington Yarborough
• 1706–1716 Thomas Owen
• 1716–1719 Samuel Lisle
• 1719-? Joseph Soley
• 1729–1742 Edward Edwards
• 1743-1748 John Hemming
• 1750-1753 Thomas Crofts
• 1756-1758 Charles Holloway
• 1758–1769 Thomas Dawes
• 1769–1770 Eleazar Edwards
• 1770–1778 Robert Foster
• 1779 John Hussey
• 1783 Post abolished

Chaplains at Constantinople[edit]

• c.1611–1614 William Ford
• To 1618 Thomas King
• 1637–1640 Edward Pococke
• 1663–1664 Denham, probably Benjamin Denham
• 1664-1668 Henry Denton
• 1668–1670 Thomas Smith
• 1670–1677 John Covel
• c.1700 Jean Armand Dubourdieu
• 1718, 1725 and 1733-1736 Thomas Payne
• c.1765–1775 Sidney Swinney
• Charles Nicholson
• 1794 James Dallaway
• 1799 Philip Hunt
• 1802–1804 George Cecil Renouard
• c.1816 Henry Lindsay
• 1817–1822 Jacob George Wrench
• 1820–c.1828 and 1831–c.1835 Robert Walsh

Chaplains at Smyrna[edit]

• 1635, arrived 1636 Thomas Curtis
• 1652 Eleazar Duncon
• 1653 Thomas Browne
• To c.1654 Hales
• 1654, arrived 1655 Robert Winchester
• 1661 Clarke
• 1663–1664 John Broadgate
• 1664–1669 John Luke
• 1670–1673 Philip Traherne
• 1673–1683 John Luke again
• 1689–1693 Edward Smyth
• 1698–1702 Edmund Chishull
• 1702–1710 John Tisser
• 1710–1716 Samuel Lisle
• 1759 Philip Brown
• 1789-1807 John Frederick Usko
• 1811–1814 George Cecil Renouard
• 1817–1820 Charles Williamson
• 1822–c.1836 Francis Vyvyan Jago Arundell
• 1840 onwards William Bucknor Lewis

Other[edit]

• 1720–1732 Thomas Shaw at Algiers

References[edit]