Thomas Buchanan (priest)

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.[5]

He died on 28 June 1924.[7][8]

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. Harper, Stanley; Hampton, Dennis W. (1990). "Historical Sketch of Poulshot Church" (PDF). Poulshot Church. pp. 20–21. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 March 2012.
  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
  8. "No. 32968". The London Gazette. 26 August 1924. p. 6465.


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