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Recorders of Maidstone

The Recorder was supposed to be a man learned in the law, whose duty it was to advise the Courts in all legal business.  An assistant was allowed him, who was called the Deputy Recorder and Town Clerk.  This arrangement continued until the operation of the Municipal Reform Bill in the year 1836.

YEARSURNAMEGIVEN NAMENOTES
1560FisherHenry 
1562BarhamNicholasSergeant-at-Law
1583FisherAlexander 
1590SmytheJohn 
1599GullWilliamresigned from age in 1634
1634FrancklyneJames 
1641ShortSamuel 
1642TwisdenThomasresigned in 1649
1650GodfreyLambard 
1662LakeThomas 
1667BrewerThomas 
1688WyattEdwin 
1690DixonWilliamdismissed in 1715 but remained as Steward and Town Clerk until his death in 1726
1715MeredithRoger, Sir, of Leeds, Bart. 
1738FinchJohn, The Honble. 
1747TurnerWilliam Horsmonden 
1753WellerGeorge 
1760FilmerFrancis 
1772NewmanDaniel 
1801BayleySergeant 
1802HarveyJohn Springett 
1804BerensJoseph 
1827BollandWilliam 
1829PollockDavid 
1846RiddellWalter B., Sir