Thomas Bloomer[1] (14 July 18945 January 1984) was born on 14 July 1894 and educated at the Royal School Dungannon and Trinity College, Dublin. He began his ministry as a curate at Carrickfergus.[2] Later he was Vicar of St Mark’s, Bath and then Vicar and Rural Dean of Barking before his ordination to the episcopate[3] as Bishop of Carlisle.[4] He was consecrated a bishop on St Luke's day 1946 (18 October), by Cyril Garbett, Archbishop of York, at York Minster — his brother, James Bloomer, then-Rector of Armagh, preached. He retired as bishop in 1966,[5] and died on 5 January 1984.[6]