Below is a list of former innkeepers. The first recorded when the inn was a Kentish “Ale House”.
1516 | Septimus Quylle |
1545 | Elanor Quylle |
1552 | Samuel Bayley |
1563 | James T Fagg |
1578 | James Bushell |
1584 | Johnathan Epps |
1598 | William Byham |
1607 | James Finn |
1618 | Jeremiah Wigton |
1623 | Cedric Rayme |
1631 | George Champion Barrington |
1642 | William Longford |
1658 | William Shoesmith |
1663 | Daniel Deeds |
1670 | Amos Dwyford |
1681 | Johnathan Carter |
1694 | Thomas Dennard |
1705 | Anne Dennard |
1710 | Julius Whitcomb |
1723 | William Young |
1733 | Daniel Cummings |
1748 | James Kite |
1755 | Joseph Purfield |
1769 | Johnathan Green |
1779 | Philip H Sole |
1783 | Henry Shore |
1797 | Thomas Renwick |
1805 | Joseph Rhome |
1811 | Samuel Marks |
1824 | George Pearce |
1835 | Joseph Oliver Capon |
1887 | Miss Hariet Capon |
1905 | Philip Usher |
1907 | John Bentley |
1909 | Mary Bentley |
1913 | Sidney Overall |
1915 | George William Medhurst |
1922 | Charles H Warner |
1924 | James Cummings Frost |
1927 | George Frise |
1930 | John Allchin |
1934 | Charles Newall |
1945 | Frank Sills |
1953 | Thomas Luck |
1959 | Charles Fuller |
1965 | Peter Meeden |
1970 | Leslie Arthur Broughton |
1977 | Leonard William Marjoram |
1982 | Peter Robin Kirby |
1985 | Roger John Haigh Corley |
1992 | Mick Wiggins & Nicola Stotesbury |
1997 | John Brown |
1998 | Vince Galloway & Janet Smith |
1999 | Vince & Katy Galloway |
2002 | Jan & Ben Benger |
2004 | Jon & Helen Sutton |
In late 2019 several of the local regulars presented Jon & Helen with a handmade shield denoting all landlords of the Duke since it’s first to now. The shield now hangs in the pub bar for all to see and enjoy.
