title: List of chaplains of the Levant Company
text: # 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
  