List of chaplains of the Levant Company
# 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

* 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 Halifax
* 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

* 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

* 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

* 1720–1732 Thomas Shaw at Algiers
