Thomas Grace (Archdeacon of Marlborough) explained

Thomas Grace
Birth Name:Thomas Samul Grace
Birth Date:1850 5, df=y
Birth Place:At Sea
Death Place:Blenheim, New Zealand

Thomas Samuel Grace (1850 – 1 April 1918)[1] was an Anglican priest in the last decades of the 19th century and the opening decades of the 20th.[2]

Grace was the son of Thomas Samuel Grace, an eminent English Anglican missionary to New Zealand.[3] He was educated at Church of England Grammar School, Auckland and Bishopdale College; and ordained deacon in 1873, and priest in 1875.[4] He was Domestic Chaplain to the BIshop of Nelson from 1874 to 1881; a CMS missionary at Whanganui from 1881 to 1885; Vicar of Blenheim from 1885; and Archdeacon of Marlborough from 1890.[5]

References

  1. Obituary: Archdeacon Grace, Blenheim . Greymouth Evening Star . 2 April 1918 . 2 .
  2. "Harvest of Grace: Essays in Celebration of 150 Years of Mission in the Anglican Diocese of Nelson", Bester, R (Ed) p105: Nelson, New Zealand; Anglican Diocese of Nelson; 2010
  3. Web site: Blain Biographical Directory of Anglican clergy in the South Pacific. 2018. 12 December 2015.
  4. [Crockford's Clerical Directory]
  5. http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Cyc05Cycl-t1-body1-d2-d14-d3.html NTETC