List of Vicars

The patron of the living of Woburn Sands (as St.Michael's, Aspley Heath is officially known) is the Bishop of Saint Albans. At the time of writing [2008] the incumbent is also the Rector of Aspley Guise| and Vicar of Husborne Crawley and Ridgmont, with a curate living in the Vicarage| in Church Road.

List of Vicars:

• Hay Macdowall Erskine MA - 1868 [licenced to District Chapelry of Woburn Sands; constituted by an Order in Council dated 4 Nov 1867; patron William, Duke of Bedford];
• James Milne Hamilton MA - 8 Feb 1875 [on cession of Hay Macdowall Erskine; patron Francis, Duke of Bedford; buried at Aspley Heath];
• Edward Mosse - 1884 [resigned in 1899 to go to St.Paul's, Covent Garden, London, killed in an air raid in World War One];
• Douglas William Henry - Jan 1901;
• John Shelton - Nov 1913 [resigned 1946 aged 86];
• Frederick Wallace Bowler - Oct 1946 [left to do missionary work in Borneo];
• Michael Theodore Meakin - 8 Mar 1951;
• Charles John Julian Cobern - 1968
• Andrew Eric Pullin - 1980;
• Norman Jeffery - 1986