Archdeacons in the Diocese of Derby

The first mentions of an archdeacon in the area occurred in the twelfth century – around the time when archdeacons' posts were first being created across England. From that earliest point until the Victorian reorganisations of church structures, the Archdeaconry of Derby was in the Diocese of Lichfield (which during those seven centuries was called in turn Coventry, Coventry & Lichfield, Lichfield & Coventry, and Lichfield). The archdeaconry, at that point covering the whole county of Derby, was transferred by Order in Council to the new Diocese of Southwell on 5 February 1884^[1] and then split on 18 October 1910 — creating the Archdeaconry of Chesterfield — such that at its 2022 dissolution, Derby archdeaconry covered roughly the southern half of Derbyshire.^[2] On 7 July 1927, the Diocese of Derby was created from the two Southwell archdeaconries of Derby and of Chesterfield.^[3]

In 2022, the Archdeaconries of Derby and of Chesterfield were dissolved in order to erect three new archdeaconries. At the point of their dissolution: the Archdeaconry of Derby was divided into the deaneries of Derby City, Dove and Derwent, Mercia, and South East Derbyshire; and the Archdeaconry of Chesterfield, was divided into the deaneries of Carsington, Hardwick, North East Derbyshire, and Peak.^[4]

• 1910–1929 (ret.): Edmond Crosse^[17]

Chesterfield archdeaconry became part of the newly created Diocese of Derby in 1927.

• 1928–1934 (res.): Geoffrey Clayton^[18] (afterwards Bishop of Johannesburg, 1934)
• 1934–1963 (ret.): Talbot Dilworth-Harrison (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)^[19][20]
• 1963–1978 (res.): Ingram Cleasby^[21][22] (afterwards Dean of Chester, 1978)
• 1978–1996 (ret.): Gerald Phizackerley (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)^[23]
• 1996–2009 (ret.): David Garnett (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)^[24]
• 2010–22 October 2016 (res.): Christine Wilson^[25]
• 1 September 2016 – 2018: Tony Kaunhoven (Acting)^[26][27]
• 10 March 2018 – 6 June 2022: Carol Coslett^[28] (became first Archdeacon of Derbyshire Peak and Dales)

The Archdeaconry of Chesterfield was dissolved on 6 June 2022.

On 6 June 2022, Libby Lane, Bishop of Derby, dissolved the two existing Archdeaconries of Derby and of Chesterfield in order to erect three new Archdeaconries: of Derby City and South Derbyshire, of East Derbyshire, and of Derbyshire Peak and Dales.^[29] On 12 June, she collated Carol Coslett (hitherto Archdeacon of Chesterfield) as Archdeacon of Derbyshire Peak and Dales; Matthew Trick as Archdeacon of Derby City and South Derbyshire; and Karen Hamblin as Archdeacon of East Derbyshire.^[30]

Coslett retired during February 2023;^[31] her successor, Nicky Fenton,^[32] was collated on 30 September 2023.^[33] Hamblin has announced her intention to retired in September 2025.^[34]

• Le Neve, John; Hardy, Sir Thomas Duffus (1854). Archdeacons of Derby . Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae. Vol. 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 575–576  – via Wikisource.
• Jones, B. (1964), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300–1541, vol. 10, pp. 16–17
• Horn, Joyce M. (2003), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 10, pp. 10–12