| | Rector | Patron |
| c.1220 | Jordan (de Grendon?) | John Fitzherbert (4th Lord) |
| c.1240 | Robert le Chaplain (of Rossyngton) | Sir William Fitzherbert (5th Lord) |
| c.1250 | Henry (clerk? of Norbury) | Sir William Fitzherbert (5th Lord) |
| c.1262 | Hugo de Stapleford, priest | Sir William Fitzherbert (5th Lord) |
| c.1266 | Bartholomew, clericus | Sir Henry Fitzherbert (6th Lord) |
| c.1270 | John (le clerk at Snellestune) | Sir Henry Fitzherbert (6th Lord) |
| c.1271 | Roger (? later Bishop of Coventry) | Sir Henry Fitzherbert (6th Lord) |
| c.1285 | John le Cu, clericus of Snellestune | Sir Henry Fitzherbert (6th Lord) |
| 1320 | Roger Fitzherbert de Peverwych
(or Parwich) - Acolyte | Sir John Fitzherbert (6th Lord of Norbury) |
| 1340 | Henry de Kniveton curate | Sir John Fitzherbert (7th Lord) |
1349 circa | Walter Fitzherbert (Builder of the chancel) | Sir John Fitzherbert (7th Lord) |
| 1395 | Henry de Kniveton II deacon | William Fitzherbert (8th Lord) |
| 1424 | Richard Kyngston | Sir Henry Bothe |
| 1461 | Nicholas Fitzherbert | Nicholas Fitzherbert (10th Lord) |
| 1466 | Henry Prince | Nicholas Fitzherbert (10th Lord) |
| 1500 | Thomas Fitzherbert | John Fitzherbert (12th Lord) |
| 1518 | Ralph Lister | John Fitzherbert (12th Lord) |
| 1535 |
John Fitzherbert in the person of John Pypis -- also Vicar of Doveridge 1520-1551 |
Sir Anthony Fitzherbert (14th Lord) |
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| 1627 | Thomas Harpur | The King "per pravitatem simoni" |
| 1628 | John Drope | |
| 1639 | Nathaniel Williams | Martha Fitzherbert,widow |
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| 1668 | Anthony Trollope | Sir Simon Degge |
| 1723 | William Saunders | John Sherrat de Leigh |
| 1757 | Simon Mills | Thomas Mills |
| 1785 | John Granville | Thomas Mills |
| 1789 | Thomas Bingham | Francis Bingham |
| 1834 | Clement Francis Broughton | Clement Francis Broughton |
| 1871 | Snelston separated from Norbury |
| 1871 | William Hunter | Samuel William Clowes |
| 1894 | Douglas Adamson | Samuel William Clowes |
| 1905 | Armine George Metcalfe | Henry Arthur Clowes |
| 1920 | Herbert Priestly Mathers | Trustees of the late H.A. Clowes |
| 1926 | Snelston re-united with Norbury | Alternative Patrons
to be (1) The Stanton family of Snelston
and (2) the Clowes family of Norbury |
| 1946 | Leonard John Bowyer | Miss M.V. Stanton |
| 1953 | William Ernest Gyde Fisk | Major L.A. Clowes |
| 1959 | Vivian James Nickalls | Miss M.V. Stanton |
| 1965 | John Stott Gamon | Major L.A. Clowes |
| 1973 | Frederick Ross | Lt. Col. J.R.G. Stanton |
| 1978 | From 1978 Norbury and Snelston held in plurality with Clifton.
The Vicar of Ashbourne to take a third turn in the excercise of the Patronage. |
| 1981 | Norman Daughtry | Major L.A. Clowes |
| 1990 | John Read | Mrs J.R.G.Stanton |
| 1995 | Andre Hart | The Vicar of Ashbourne |
| 2004 | Harold Dobbin | Mrs J. R. G. Stanton |