10 Facts About David Bandinel

David Bandinel was the first Dean of Jersey following the Reformation.

David Bandinel later became rector of St Martin Le Vieux in 1629 and faced much opposition during his tenure as Dean - an incessant pattern that significantly contributed to his death in 1645.

David Bandinel soon repented of his decision and appointed a governor, Sir John Peyton, who was expressly charged with the duty of urging a return to unity with the English church.

David Bandinel was then appointed Dean, with instructions to draw up, for submission to the king, a body of canons agreeable to the discipline of the church of England, which were referred to a commission consisting of Archbishop Abbot, the lord keeper Williams, and Andrewes, bishop of Winchester.

David Bandinel is said to have been a man of ability and integrity, but of austere manners, and he was accused by his enemies of absorbing all the more lucrative offices.

David Bandinel was charged with attempting to deprive the Dean of part of his tithes, an aggression that roused in Bandinel an animosity to the lieutenant-governor that was fostered by subsequent events, and which endured throughout his life.

At the time of the English civil war, David Bandinel was considered the head of the parliamentary party in Jersey, whose cause he is said to have espoused chiefly out of opposition to the leading loyalist, Carteret.

David Bandinel fell from a great height onto the rocks below, where he was discovered insensible by a sentinel on the following morning.

David Bandinel's son escaped, but was recaptured, and put in prison where he died.

Dean David Bandinel was one of the rectors of the island, from which office he derived but small emolument.