William Thomas (archdeacon of Northumberland)

William Jordison Thomas[1] (December 16, 1927–January 31, 2020) was the Archdeacon of Northumberland from 1982 to 1993. [2]

Born on 16 December 1927, he was educated at Giggleswick School and did his National Service in the Royal Navy between 1946 and 1948. After graduating from King's College, Cambridge he studied for the priesthood at Ripon College Cuddesdon. He served curacies at St Anthony of Egypt, Newcastle upon Tyne[3] and Berwick Parish Church[4] and incumbencies at Alwinton, Alston cum Garrigill and Glendale before his Archdeacon's appointment.

He died on 31 January 2020 and is buried in St Bartholomew's Church, Whttingham, England.

References

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‘THOMAS, Ven. William Jordison’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 1 April 2013
NFIS
Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X

Archdeacons of Northumberland
High Medieval	Junior archdeacons: Ranulph John Archdeacons of Northumberland: William du Puiset G. de Perche Richard Marsh Alan de Lenna Thomas de Anesty Robert de Sancta Agatha Roger de Herteburn Richard de Middleton Thomas de Birland William de la Corner Nicholas de Welles
Late Medieval	Robert Pickering John de Nassington Thomas Charlton John Charlton Edmund Haward William de Salopia John de Bamburgh Richard de Bernard Castle John de Kyngeston Thomas Duffield William de Beverley John de Derby Louis Cardinal de Fieschi John Repham John de Dalton William Morwyk John Rickingale Henry Eton John Akum John Rickingale (again) Marmaduke Lumley Robert Burton Robert Mason Ralph Scrope Robert Davell
Early modern	William Carter William King Ralph Lever Francis Bunney John Bolde Ralph Tunstall William Morton John Cradock Gabriel Clark Francis Burgoyne Joseph Naylor William Flathers Everard Gower Isaac Basire William Turner John Morton Thomas Sharp Thomas Robinson John Sharp Robert Thorp Reynold Bouyer Thomas Singleton William Forbes Raymond George Bland
Late modern	Henry Watkins George Hamilton James Henderson Charles Blackett-Ord Leslie Hunter Charles Ritchie Ian White-Thomson Christopher Unwin William Thomas Peter Elliott Geoff Miller Mark Wroe Rachel Wood

Diocese of Newcastle
Newcastle Cathedral Bishop's House, Gosforth Church House, North Shields
Office holders	Helen-Ann Hartley, Bishop of Newcastle Mark Wroe, Bishop suffragan of Berwick AEO: Stephen Race, Bishop suffragan of Beverley & Rob Munro, Bishop suffragan of Ebbsfleet Lee Batson, Dean of Newcastle Catherine Sourbut Groves, Archdeacon of Lindisfarne Rachel Wood, Archdeacon of Northumberland
Historic offices	Provost of Newcastle (1931–2000; see Dean of Newcastle)
Historic residences	Benwell Towers

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