Thomas Lightfoot

The Ven. Thomas Fothergill Lightfoot, B.D.[1] (4 March 1831 – 12 November 1904) was Archdeacon of The Cape[2] from 1895 to 1904.[3]

Lightfoot was educated at Nottingham High School and St Augustine's College, Canterbury.[4] Following several years as a journalist he was ordained Deacon by the Bishop of London in 1857.[5] He went to South Africa the following year[6] and was ordained Priest by the Bishop of Cape Town in 1859. After a curacy at St George, Cape Town he was Priest in charge of St Paul, Cape Town[7] then Vicar general of the Anglican Diocese of Cape Town and Missionary Canon until his appointment as Archdeacon.[8]

Notes
  1. Multiple News Items "The Standard" (London, England), Saturday, March 15, 1879; pg. 5; Issue 17050
  2. "Christianity in South Africa: A Political, Social, and Cultural History" Elphick,R; Davenport,R (Eds) Kenilworth, Cape Town, David Philip, 2004, ISBN 0864863063
  3. ‘LIGHTFOOT, Ven. Thomas Fothergill’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 28 Oct 2015
  4. "The Life and Times of Thomas Fothergill Lightfoot" Henry Purefoy Barnett Clarke and William West Jones London : Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd, 1908
  5. THE CHURCH Daily News (London, England), Monday, December 21, 1857; Issue 3619
  6. "Cape Town: The Making of a City" Nigel Worden, Elizabeth Van Heyningen, Vivian Bickford-Smith Kenilworth, Cape Town, David Philip, 2004, ISBN 0864866569
  7. "Inverting the Norm: Racially-Mixed Congregations in a Segregationist State" Venter,D South Africa, Galjoen Press, 2007, ISBN 9780615172231
  8. "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900


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