Thomas Buchanan (priest) explained

Thomas Boughton Buchanan (1833  - 28 June 1924) was a cleric in the Church of England. He was the Archdeacon of Wilts from 1874 until 1911.

Born in 1833,^[1] he was educated at Exeter College, Oxford^[2] and ordained in 1857.^[3] After a curacy in Wilton he was rector of Wishford Magna from 1863. Appointed a chaplain to George Moberly, Bishop of Salisbury,^[4] in 1870, the following year he became vicar of Potterne. He was rector of Poulshot from 1891 to 1905^[5] and a Residentiary Canon at Salisbury Cathedral from 1894.^[6]

During his incumbency at Poulshot, where the church was some distance from the village, he instigated the provision of a chapel-of-ease which was built in 1897 on land adjacent to his rectory.

He died on 28 June 1924.^[7]

Notes and References

1. BUCHANAN, Ven. Thomas Boughton, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 29 Nov 2012
2. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE The Morning Chronicle (London, England), Friday, December 5, 1856; Issue 28064
3. ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE The Morning Post (London, England), Wednesday, December 23, 1857; p 3; Issue 26203
4. The Hampshire Advertiser (Southampton, England), Wednesday, June 01, 1870; p 4; Issue 2501
5. Web site: Harper . Stanley . Hampton . Dennis W. . 1990 . Historical Sketch of Poulshot Church . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120330022201/http://www.poulshot.org.uk/St%20Peters%20Church/poulshot%20church%201.pdf . 30 March 2012 . Poulshot Church . 20–21.
6. Ecclesiastical Intelligence. The Times (London, England), Thursday, Dec 06, 1894; p 8; Issue 34440
7. Canon T. B. Buchanan The Times (London, England), Monday, Jun 30, 1924; p 19; Issue 43691