George Napier Whittingham - Priest in Charge Dec 1907 - 1912, Vicar 1912 - 1930.
In 1893 he was rector at St Peter, Duntisbourne Abbots, Gloucestershire, and from the "The Story of Duntisbourne Abbots" by Anne Carver it says that 'he did not get on well with the ageing Squire - perhaps not surprisingly, as he described himself as a Radical parson, and certainly had ideas in advance of his time'. It also appears from the description of his life in the village that his opinions were at variance with the Squire's politically. However in his short stay he started the cricket club and his wife founded the Mother's Union.
In 1895 he was at S. Lawrence & All Saints, Evesham, Worcestershire.
Died 11 January 1941

Frank Lacy Hillier - Vicar Nov 1930 - Jan 1963
Associate King's College London (1st class) 1913.
Ely Theological College 1915.
Ordained Deacon 1915, and Priest 1916 in Birmingham.
Curate Aston Brook, Birmingham 1915-18 and St Saviour Saltley, Birmingham 1918-20.
Priest in charge Harbour I 1920-24.
Curate of St John the Baptist Holland Road, Kensington 1925-30
Died 5 March 1978

Obituary from the Church Times 5 Dec 2008 by Simon Lindley

Fr Douglas Cobb, who died on 21 November, aged 83, was a long-serving and greatly beloved priest of the diocese of London. Fr Cobb’s ministry took in parishes in Notting Hill and South Ruislip, before his incumbency of St Silas-the-Martyr, Kentish Town, for almost a quarter of a century from 1963.

In 1987, he became Chaplain to the Convent of St Mary-at-the-Cross, Edgware, serving that Con­vent, and its associated care home, Henry Nihill House, with much-valued devotion and com­mitment.

In retirement, he assisted at St Lawrence, Little Stanmore, by then his own parish church, and here, too, his input into so many aspects of the life of that community was well to the fore.

Fr Cobb’s interests ranged widely — from telecommunications to a great love of music. He numbered many musicians among his friends, and appointed a number of gifted organists to St Silas, giving a par­ticular welcome to those who could also assist with the running of his parish hall.

The church was used for CD recordings, and contained a beauti­ful 18th-century chamber or­gan, the property of the Guild of St Joseph — an instrument that Man­der restored for Fr Cobb .

In common with many Kelham-trained priests of his generation, Fr Cobb (Douglas to friends, and Dougie to his close family circle), was much more concerned about service than status. He travelled widely, regularly visiting former parishioners in New Zealand and France.

  His father had run the family business, Cobb of Knightsbridge, before and after the Second World War, and Fr Cobb was brought up as a parishioner at St Paul’s, Knights­bridge. In common with his father, who lived long into retirement, a twinkle was always in his eye.

His impact on those with whom he came into contact was con­sider­able; he fostered vocations, en­cour­aged those going through difficult times in their lives, and supported strongly those who worked within his parish commu­nities — notably the staff at St Silas of the residential children’s home immediately oppo­site his vicarage in St Silas Place.

He sustained strong friendships with leading musicians of the day, and was a great supporter of the Royal School of Church Music.

Maurice Child - Assistant Priest June 1909 - 1912
1912 moved to St. James the Less, Plymouth.  
1937 was Rector of Cranford, Middlesex. Died 26 Jan 1950

The Revd. Maurice Child, M.A., F.R.G.S., was a graduate of Oxford. He was educated at Sherbourne; St. John the Baptist's College, Oxford; and at Cuddleston College. He was ordained by the Bishop of London in 1909.

He served curacies at St. Andrew's Haverstock Hill, Kentish Town; St. Michael, Plymouth; Holy Trinity, Sloane Street; and St. Mary, Pimlico. He was librarian at Pusey House, Oxford and Secretary of the Church Union. He was appointed as Rector of St. Dunstan, Cranford in 1935.

Fr. Maurice Child was much traveled. In 1912 he took part in the Yale Expedition to Peru. Before the First World War he worked in South Africa, the South Sea Islands and Australasia. During the First World War he was with the British Expeditionary Force in France serving as a Liaison Officer. After the Armistice he was in the United States and in 1922 went to India and Burma.

He also organized the first Anglican Pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1924.

Vincent Baker - Assistant Priest June 1909 - 1910
He was a curate and friend of Maurice Child in Hampstead and went with him to Devon.
He later went over to Rome and in 1937 was known to be a priest at the London Oratory.

John Willis Kidd - Assistant Priest Mar 1919 - June 1922
He was the Vicar at S. Paul, Mill Hill and also at Selby Abbey.
1937 was Rector of Burgh Wallis, Doncaster, South Yorkshire
Died 27th September

Ronald Harry Royle - Assistant Priest Apr 1919 - 1923
Received the Military Cross from the King at Buckingham Palace on 24 Jan 1917. Ordained on Sunday, 16 March 1919 at St. Paul’s Cathedral.
Chaplain Toc H Birmingham 1923 - 1925 
Vicar of Our Lady of Mercy and St Thomas of Canterbury, Gorton, Manchester 1925 - 1937.
Vicar of St. Mark, Swindon 1937 - 1949.
Vicar of St Matthew, Great Peter Street, Westminster, London SW1 1949 - 1968. This was his last post.

Vigo Auguste Demant - Assistant Priest Mar 1929 - 1933
1937 was Vicar of St. John, Richmond
In a Report to the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1947 called "Catholicity - A Study in the Conflict of Christian Traditions in the West", the name of VA Demant is linked with Gregory Dix, TS Eliot and others. In November 1945 the Archbishop of Canterbury (Geoffrey Cantuar) had invited Dom Gregory Dix to convene a group of Anglicans of the "Catholic" school of thought to examine the causes of the deadlock which occur in discussion between Catholics and Protestants and to consider whether any synthesis between Catholicism and Protestantism is possible. At that time the Revd. VA Demant was Canon and Chancellor of S. Paul's Cathedral.
In a publication dated 1962 he was the authur of a biography on John Thomas Looney (1870 - 1944). At that time he was Canon of Christ Church, Oxford and also Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology.
He retired in 1971 and died in 1983.

OBITUARY from The Times 7 March 1983
The Rev Dr VA Demant, who died on March 3 at the age of 89, was Canon of Christ Church and Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at Oxford University from 1949 to 1971.

Vigo Auguste Demant was born on November 8, 1893 of mixed Huguenot and Danish stock; his father’s family had migrated from France to Germany and to Scandinavia. After schooling at Newcastle and in France, he took a degree in engineering at Armstrong College.
    
Having decided to offer himself for the Unitarian ministry, he went up to Oxford in 1916 as a member of Exeter and Manchester Colleges to read the Diploma in Anthropology. He rapidly moved towards Catholic orthodoxy and, after a short time at Ely Theological College, he was ordained as a deacon of the Church of England in 1919 and as a priest in 1920.
    
After curacies in Oxford and in London, he became Vicar of St John’s, Richmond, in Surrey in 1933; nine years later he became a canon of St Paul’s, and in 1949 he became Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, and professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology in Oxford University, a post from which he retired in 1971.
    
From early years his chief theological interest had been in the realm of Christian sociology, and when he was drawn into the movement which was focussed on the League of the Kingdom of God, the Anglo-Catholic Summer Schools of Sociology, and the journal Christendom, he rapidly became its chief intellectual leader.
    
During the nineteen-twenties and thirties the names of PET Widdrington, Maurice Reckitt, WG Peck and Vigo Demant stood together for an approach to sociological questions which was free from sentimentality and based upon the definite principles of Catholic theology. His works God, Man and Society, Christian Polity, The Religious Prospect, and Religion and the Decline of Capitalism {this last a tribute and a sequel to the similarly named work by RH Tawney, for whom he had the greatest veneration) were conspicuous embodiments of his thought.
    
Together with this, he developed a large number of contacts with the educational world and with various circles in the City of London which had little contact with organized religion. He was largely instrumental in the opening of St Anne’s House, Soho, towards the end of the Second World War as a “frontier station” between Christian thought and the world of secular literature, philosophy and sociology.
    
In 1957- 8, as Gifford Lecturer at St Andrew’s, he addressed himself to the question of the relations of Christianity as a human activity to its social context or, as he described it, “the natural history of Christianity”. His Christian Sexual Ethics, published in 1963, was, in spite of its brevity, a remarkably original, constructive and also extremely amusing discussion of a vitally contemporary subject.
    
As a speaker and preacher he was most appreciated by those who were prepared to make a definite effort to enter into the problems in which he was interested. When he had thought a question through to the end he could on occasion be quite remarkably illuminating; and even when his hearers were conscious that he was thinking a problem out in their presence they were almost always rewarded with some brilliant flashes of insight. It would, however, be idle to pretend that he was, in the ordinary sense, a popular preacher; his ministry as a teacher was to those who were anxious to think.
    
He married in 1925 Marjorie Tickner, who survives him. There were a son and two daughters of the marriage.

Albert William Lee - Assistant Priest June 1944 - Sept 1946
(Presumed dead in Korea - July 1954)