1664–1683—Rev. Henry Howser (d. Dec. 29, 1683).
1683–1700—Rev. Philip Bennett (d. Sept. 5, 1707).
1700–1702—Rev. James Cunningham.
1702–1703–4—Rev. William Alsop (d. Jan. 10, 1703–4).
1704–1720—Richard Tabor (d. April 6, 1720).
1720–1734—Rev. John Scott (d. Nov. 22, 1734).
1735–1748—Rev. Calvin Galpine (d. Aug. 20, 1748).
1748–1764—Rev. John Venn, B.A. (d. April 6, 1764).
1764–1773—Rev. Samuel Griffiths, A.M.
1773–1788—Rev. John Lindsay, D.D. (d. Nov. 3, 1788).
1789–1791—Rev. Alexander Cumine, D.D. (d. July 18, 1791).
1791–1808—Rev. Robert Stanton Woodham, M.A.
1808–1813—Rev. Isaac Mann.
1814–1822—Rev. William Vaughan Hamilton.
1823–1843—Rev. Lewis Bowerbank, A.M.
1843–1857—Rev. Samuel Paynter Musson, D.D.
1857–1864—Rev. G. J. Handfield, M.A.
1864–1868—Rev. Joseph Williams.
1869–1875—Rev. F. S. Bradshaw, LL.D.
1876–1891—Rev. Charles Frederick Douet, A.M. (afterwards Assistant
Bishop).
1892–1900—Rev. Canon Edward Jocelyn Wortley.
1901–1904—Rev. Canon Reginald John Ripley.
1904–1908—Rev. Canon John Walton Austin.
1909– —Rev. Canon Samuel Purcell Hendrick, M.A.
Tabor is referred to in “The Groans of Jamaica.”
Of the Rev. John Venn, Bryan Edwards wrote an epitaph beginning:
Beneath this stone lies plain John Venn,
Neither the best, nor the worst of men;
and ending:
To sum in short—yet speak in full—
Our plain John Venn was blunt John Bull.
Lindsay was ordained in December 1753 in Conduit Street Chapel, Hanover
Square, London; he was presented to the rectory of St. Thomas-ye-Vale,
Jamaica, in 1768, and was made rector of St. Catherine in 1773; and he
was made D.D. by the University of Edinburgh in the same year. He
officiated at Spanish Town till his death in 1788. The sermon which he
preached at the funeral of Sir Basil Keith, the governor, in 1777, was
published. In 1770 he petitioned the House of Assembly to assist him in
publishing his collection of “drawings of the most curious and beautiful
plants, trees, fruits, birds, insects, fishes,” but received but cold
comfort—the House resolving that the drawings “will merit the attention
of the curious in natural history.” In 1781 and 1783 he published in
“The Gentleman’s Magazine,” “An Examination of the Hypothetical Doctrine
of Waterspouts, in Opposition to the Ingenious Speculations of Dr. B.
Franklin, of Philadelphia, F.R.S.,” which was reprinted in “The Journal
of the Institute of Jamaica,” for December 1897. It is curious that one
of his illustrations represents the church of St. Catherine with a tower
and spire, for it had not even a tower in 1781. In the Bristol Museum
are four volumes of coloured drawings of Jamaica plants and animals made
by Lindsay from 1758 to 1771, many of them accompanied by descriptive
matter.
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