Norman Thicknesse

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(Francis) Norman Thicknesse (b Deane, Lancashire 9 Aug. 1858 - d St Albans 13 April 1946) [1] was Archdeacon of Middlesex, [2] from 1930 [3] until 1933. [4]

Of a Lancashire landed gentry family, [5] the son of a bishop [6] he was educated at Winchester [7] and BNC. [8] He held incumbencies in Limehouse, Northampton and Hornsey. [9] He was Rector of St George's, Hanover Square from 1911 [10] to 1933; [11] and Rural Dean of Westminster from 1912 to 1927. [12]

His son was Cuthbert Thicknesse, Dean of St Albans from 1936 to 1955. [13]

Notes

  1. ↑ Obituary. The Times (London, England), Monday, Apr 15, 1946; pg. 4; Issue 50427
  2. ↑ Anglican History
  3. ↑ Ecclesiastical News. The Times (London, England), Saturday, Jul 05, 1930; pg. 19; Issue 45557
  4. ↑ ‘THICKNESSE, Ven. Francis Norman’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 24 March 2016
  5. ↑ Burke's Landed Gentry, 1871, vol. II, pg 1370
  6. ↑ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Thicknesse, Francis Norman"  . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886 . Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  7. ↑ Winchester College at War
  8. ↑ forebears
  9. ↑ British History On-line
  10. ↑ Church web-site
  11. ↑ thePeerage.com
  12. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory1929-30 p1274 Oxford, OUP,1929
  13. ↑ Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes, 1969, Kelly's Directories, pg 1925
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