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A. Nutter Thomas

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A. Nutter Thomas
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Arthur Nutter Thomas (11 December 1869 – 10 April 1954), commonly referred to as Dr Nutter Thomas or A. Nutter Thomas, was the Anglican Bishop of Adelaide, South Australia, from 1906 to 1940.[1]

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Early life

Nutter Thomas was born in Hackney, London, to Charles James Thomas and his wife Mary Matilda Thomas, née Nutter.[2] He was educated at Pembroke College of the University of Cambridge and was awarded a bachelor's degree in 1893, a master's degree in 1895 and a Doctor of Divinity degree in 1906.[3] He was made deacon on 20 May 1894, by Walsham How, Bishop of Wakefield, at Wakefield Cathedral;[4] ordained priest the following year;[5] and consecrated a bishop on Candlemas 1906 (2 February) at Westminster Abbey, by Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury.[6] He arrived in South Australia two months later with his wife. On retirement he had spent over 34 years as a bishop, the longest for an Anglican bishop in Australia at that time.[2]

Thomas's episcopacy as Bishop of Adelaide was contemporaneous with the 40-year incumbency at St George's Church, Goodwood of Canon Percy Wise, with whom he had a long and frosty relationship, Thomas being a traditional Anglican, a follower of the Book of Common Prayer, and Wise being radically Anglo-Catholic.

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Family

Nutter Thomas married Mary Theodora Lewis before leaving England. They had two daughters and a son, all born at Bishop's Court, North Adelaide.

  • Ursula Nutter Thomas (10 January 1908 – ) married the Rev. William C. S. Johnson[7] on 20 April 1937
  • M(ary) Katherine Nutter Thomas (16 August 1910 – ) married the Rt Rev. Hubert Baddeley on 13 November 1935. He was Bishop of Melanesia from 1932 to 1947.[8]
  • Christopher Nutter Thomas[9] (11 July 1912 – ) was appointed curate to the Rev. F. E. Thornton, at Holy Trinity Church, Kew, Victoria, in 1946.[10]
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