Thomas Grace (Archdeacon of Marlborough)

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Thomas Grace
Born
Thomas Samul Grace

(1850-05-17)17 May 1850
At Sea
Died1 April 1918(1918-04-01) (aged 67)
Blenheim, New Zealand

Thomas Samuel Grace (1850 – 1 April 1918)[1] was an Anglican priest in the last decades of the 19th century and the opening decades of the 20th.[2]

Grace was the son of Thomas Samuel Grace, an eminent English Anglican missionary to New Zealand.[3][4] He was educated at Church of England Grammar School, Auckland and Bishopdale College; and ordained deacon in 1873, and priest in 1875.[5] He was Domestic Chaplain to the BIshop of Nelson from 1874 to 1881; a CMS missionary at Whanganui from 1881 to 1885; Vicar of Blenheim from 1885; and Archdeacon of Marlborough from 1890.[6]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Obituary: Archdeacon Grace, Blenheim". Greymouth Evening Star: 2. 2 April 1918.
  2. ^ "Harvest of Grace: Essays in Celebration of 150 Years of Mission in the Anglican Diocese of Nelson", Bester, R (Ed) p105: Nelson, New Zealand; Anglican Diocese of Nelson; 2010 ISBN 9780473177775
  3. ^ Murray, Janet E. "Thomas Samuel Grace". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
  4. ^ "Blain Biographical Directory of Anglican clergy in the South Pacific" (PDF). 2018. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
  5. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908 p 573: London, Horace Cox, 1908
  6. ^ NTETC