Rectors

The Revd Nicholas Sambrook Russell was the Rector of St Marylebone Parish Church from 1768 until 1788.

He was born at Basingstoke in 1732, was educated at Winchester; and was thence admitted of Queen’s College, Oxford; where he took the degree of B. A. in 1753; and M. A. in 1757.

His first ecclesiastical duties were performed in the neighbourhood of his native town, where he continued about seven years; when, having been appointed Domestic Chaplain to the Princess Amelia, daughter of King George II.

For nearly twenty years was a frequent and energetic preacher at the parish church of St Marylebone, and at some of the Chapels in that neighbourhood. He was appointed to the Rectory of St Marylebone by the Crown in 1768 and was the Rector of St Marylebone 1768 – 1788.