Bread Charity Benefactors - Sir Edward Randall, Thomas Ginger, Joseph Chennells

Sir Edward Randall held the advowson ( the right to appoint the vicar) of Edlesborough from 1590, having inherited the position from his father, also Edward. He must have been the person who set up the charity. In 1614 he conveyed the position to the Egerton family and, ultimately, Earl Brownlow (of the Ashridge estate).

Thomas Ginger was a farmer on Edlesborough Green in 1841 and was a prominent member of the community.  Edlesborough residents mainly still paid tithes rather than rents and the Tithe Commissioners were calculating the appropriate equivalent rents for people’s properties, which caused dissatisfaction in some quarters. The Tithe Commissioners placed the Rent Charge notice in his house on Edlesborough Green for inspection by all interested parties.

In 1859 he was qualified to vote in the Buckingham Constituency, Aylesbury polling district, parish of Edlesborough, by virtue of owning cottages and land in Edlesborough, even though he actually lived in Linslade by this time.

He is buried in the fenced grave by the north porch

Joseph Chennells was a farmer at Church Farm Edlesborough. In 1891  he farmed 689 acres, employed 25 labourers and 13 boys. He held several prominent positions eg Church Warden and a Member of the Diocesan Conference, a partner in the Bucks and Oxon Union Bank Ltd, and served as a member of the Grand Jury County Session in 1895. He also had occasion to prosecute various people, including some employees, for various transgressions such as poaching, stealing bags of barley and other poverty led crimes.