Thomas Suther Explained
Thomas George Spink Suther (5 February 1814 – 23 January 1883) was the Scottish Episcopalian bishop of Aberdeen from 1857 to 1865 and first bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney from 1865 to 1883.[2] [3] [4] [5]
Suther was born in Edinburgh to Deputy Inspector General Peter Suther, M.D. who was posted to Nova Scotia when his son was an infant. His father was a doctor in the Royal Navy and was stationed at Halifax c.1814-1829. Sutherland was educated at King's College, Windsor in Halifax and ordained in 1837.[6] [7] [8]
At age 21, Suther moved to Scotland and became a curate in St Paul's and St George's Church, Edinburgh, for 19 years.[9] After curacies in Edinburgh and at St James Scottish Episcopal Church in Leith[10] he came to St Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen in 1856.[9] He died at San Remo on 23 January 1883.[11]
In 1835, Suther married Catherine Fraser, daughter of James Fraser.[8]
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Notes and References
- Book: Rowan Strong. Episcopalianism in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: Religious Responses to a Modernizing Society. 21 March 2002. OUP Oxford. 978-0-19-924922-0. 292.
- http://www.crockford.org.uk/listing.asp?id=927 Crockfords
- https://archive.org/details/aberdeenjournaln04unse/page/107 Suther's Grave marker inscription, p. 107
- https://books.google.com/books?id=4_6lQjLZmOkC&dq=thomas+george+suther+san+remo&pg=RA2-PA124 The Annual Register, Volume 125 edited by Edmund Burke - Obit indicating born in Scotland
- https://archive.org/details/cihm_22739/page/n45 Nova Scotia and Nova Scotians: a lecture delivered before the Literary and Debating Society of Windsor, N.S. and afterward at the Temperance Hall, Halifax, in behalf of the Athenæum
- https://books.google.com/books?id=L6hPAQAAMAAJ&dq=suther+inspector+of+hospitals+and+fleets+nova+scotia&pg=PA470 Father's obituary
- https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433070787050;view=1up;seq=457 'The Church of England Magazine, Volume 2 (Jan to July 1837)' p. 15: London: James Burns, 1837
- https://archive.org/details/typesofcanadianw01morguoft/page/326 Types of Canadian women and of women who are or have been connected with Canada, 1903, p. 326
- Book: Internet Archive. Modern Athenians; a series of original portraits of memorable citizens of Edinburgh. 274. Benjamin W. Crombie. William Scott Douglas. 1882. A. and C. Black.
- "Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000" Bertie, D.M p 316: Edinburgh T & T Clark
- Obituary. The Times (London, England), Monday, 29 January 1883; p. 7; Issue 30729.
