The following is a list of Rectors compiled from the Church records and the Bedfordshire Archives:
| 1202 |
Eugeranus de Sandy |
| 1202 |
Thomas son of Simon - after |
| 1229 |
Thomas de Pertenhale - subdeacon |
| 1267 |
Richard de Caysho - subdeacon |
| 1278 |
John de Auchoyl [?] - clerk; subdeacon; on death of the last Rector |
| 1293 |
Roger de Graneby - chaplain; Vicar of Bromham |
| 129? |
John Pickard |
| 1297 |
Robert Spigurnel - clerk; on the institution of John Pickard to another parish in the Diocese of Norwich; Sir Roger Peyure of Pertenhall had presented another clerk but he was held not to be entitled; the Spigurnel family were Lords of the Manor of Clifton |
| 1301 |
John de Cheringdon - acolite; on the death of Robert Spigurnel |
| 1310 |
Nicholas de Eye - clerk; on the resignation of John de Cheringdon |
| 1313 |
John Blundel - chaplain; on death of Nicholas |
| 13?? |
John de Marcham |
| 1340 |
John de Hale - priest; on the institution of John de Marcham to be Rector of Sudbury in Norwich Diocese; instituted again 19th January 1341 by Walter de Stauren', canon of Lincoln |
| 1345 |
Geoffrey de Sidelsham - Rector of Selesby; by Nicholas de Benton, Rector of Wranby, his procurator, by exchange with John de Hale |
| 13?? |
Thomas de Cumpton |
| 1351 |
Philip Daubeny - priest; on the resignation of Thomas de Cumpton who became Archdeacon of Bedford |
| 1352 |
Roger de Wythyngton - on the death of Philip Daubeney |
| 1357 |
Thomas Yunge - Rector of Oystermouth [near Swansea], Diocese of "Meneu" by exchange with Roger de Wythyngton |
| 1359 |
Robert de Braybrok - clerk; on the resignation of Thomas Yonge; dispensation "pro defectu etatis" in pursuance of a Papal Bull granted in consequence of the mortality caused by the Black Death; the Braybrokes were Lords of the Manor of Clifton |
| 1362 |
Robert de Braybrok - clerk; on the resignation of Robert de Braybrok |
| 1368 |
Reginald Braybrok - clerk; on the resignation of Robert Braibrok |
| 1373 |
Walter Wodeward - priest; on the resignation of Reginald de Braybrok |
| 1379 |
John Cochowe - Rector of Grytton, Ely Diocese, by exchange with Walter Wodeward |
| 1394 |
John Burgate - clerk; on the death of the last Rector |
| 1396 |
John Turveye - priest; in succession to John Burgate |
| 1396 |
John Bodycote - priest; on the resignation of John Turveye, who exchanged to be Rector of Yelden |
| 1399 |
John Godard - priest |
| 14?? |
Walter Hollybred - died; he has a brass in the church |
| 1447 |
John Southell - priest; on the death of Walter Halibred |
| 1460 |
Edmund Lemyng - priest; on the death of John de Southill |
| 1490 |
Henry Babyngton MA - on the death of Edmund Lemyng; the Babyngtons were Lords of the Manor of Clifton |
| 1497 |
Ralph Cantrell - priest; on the resignation of Henry Babington |
| 1531 |
George Fage - chaplain; on the death of Ralph Cantrell |
| 1569 |
Evan David - clerk; on the death of the last Rector |
| 1572 |
Thomas Castell - resigned 16th May 1575 |
| 1575 |
Benjamin Chambers - admitted 16th May 1575; vacant on the resignation of John Castell |
| 1578 |
Thomas Nicolson - admitted on 2nd August 1578 on the death of Benjamin Chambers |
| 1579 |
John Snell - admitted 12th February 1579; vacant by deprivation of Thomas Nicholson |
| 1595 |
William Maude - minister; buried 12th August 1622; will dated 21st March 1621, proved 8th July 1623 |
| 1618 |
William Buckby STB - married Ursula, daughter of Edward Osborne of Northill, esquire; buried 21st February 1648, aged 75; will dated 6th January 1648, proved 23rd April 1649 |
| 1622 |
Isaac Bedford MA - buried 9th November 1661; will dated 16th September 1661, proved 8th April 1662 |
| 1662 |
Nicholas East AM - clerk; on the death of Isaac Bedford; also Vicar of Pinchbeck [Lincolnshire] |
| 1668 |
William Slater STP - of ChristChurch, Oxford; on the death of Nicholas East; also Rector of Saint James', Clerkenwell; died 3rd March 1690 aged 68 |
| 1690 |
Thomas Cooke MA - on the death of William Slater |
| 1708 |
Philip Oddy AM - on the resignation of Thomas Cooke |
| 1733 |
Samuel Sparhawke MA |
| 1738 |
Thomas Osborn LL.D - on the death of Samuel Sparhawke |
| 1790 |
Daniel Stephen Olivier LL.B - on the death of Thomas Osborn |
| 1827 |
Daniel Josias Olivier MA - on the death of Daniel Stephen Olivier |
| 1858 |
Henry Hugh Miles MA - on the death of Daniel Josias Olivier |
| 1891 |
Edmund Clement Alwyn Foster |
| 1896 |
John Pycock |
| 1921 |
Jervois Arthur Newnham DD, LLD, Late Bishop Saskiatchewan |
| 1925 |
Reginald Merac La Porte-Payne MA, Hon CF |
| 1939 |
Theodore Robert Woosnam Lunt |
| 1947 |
Philip Humphrey Hall |
| 1951 |
Patrick Thomas Ashton MA |
| 1555 |
Patrick Morris Foort MA, OCF |
| 1959 |
Ernest Hall AKC |
| 1969 |
Gerald Richard Stanley Ritson MA |
| 1976 |
David Arthur Ireland MA |
| 1984 |
Peter John Pavey ACLD, Hon Canon St Albans |
| 1994 |
John Kenneth Dixon |
| 2005 |
Mark-Aaron B Tisdale BA, CCM |
| 2011 |
Anne Margret Hindle Bsc |
| 2016 |
Caren Teresa Topley BEd(Hons), Dip CCM, Hon Canon St Albans |
