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]
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.
Nutter Thomas married Mary Theodora Lewis before leaving England. They had two daughters and a son, all born at Bishop's Court, North Adelaide.
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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]
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.
Nutter Thomas married Mary Theodora Lewis before leaving England. They had two daughters and a son, all born at Bishop's Court, North Adelaide.
Media related to A. Nutter Thomas at Wikimedia Commons