History of Bedfordshire than fifty places in the county. Following the enactment of the Municipal Corporations Act 1835, Bedford was the only borough in the county. Charters of incorporation were granted to Dunstable in 1864 and Luton in 1876. In 1837 the county was divided into poor law unions, each consisting of a town and surrounding rural parishes: Ampthill, Bedford, Biggleswade, Leighton Buzzard, Luton and Woburn. In addition, a handful of parishes near the boundaries of Bedfordshire were included in PLUs based in other counties, namely Hitchin in Hertfordshire, St Neots in Huntingdonshire and Wellingborough in Northamptonshire. In 1875, the county was divided
Church of All Saints, Leighton Buzzard Reynolds MA 1773 Henry Osman BA 1781 William Oddie BA 1786 John Wilson BA 1788 John Wilson BA 1849 Joseph Stevenson MA 1862 Thomas Wallis Richards MA 1901 George Frederick Hills MA 1933 Sidney Ernest Swann MA 1937 Arthur Thomas Stephens MA 1943 Stanley John Forrest BA 1954 Canon John J F Scammell AKC 1981 Peter Harold Whittaker AKC 1992 Canon John Anthony L Hulbert MA 2003 Canon Grant Fellows BD AKC PREBENDARIES OF LEIGHTON BUZZARD to 1926 As recorded in "Leighton Buzzard and Its Hamlets", published 1928 by Robert Richmond Theobald de Busar - Vicar of the Church in