Nutter Thomas

Arthur Nutter Thomas (11 December 1869 - 10 April 1954) was the Anglican Bishop of Adelaide, South Australia from 1906 to 1940.[1]

Thomas was educated at Pembroke College of the University of Cambridge in England and was awarded a bachelor's degree in 1893, a masters degree in 1895 and a Doctor of Divinity degree in 1906.[2] Thomas was consectrated as Bishop of Adelaide in Westminster Abbey on 2 February 1906. He arrived in South Australia two months later with his wife, Mary Theodora (née ) Lewis. On retirement he had spent over 34 years as a bishop, the longest for an Anglican in Australia at that time.[3]

References

  1. ^ Reed, Thomas T (1969). A history of the cathedral church of St. Peter Adelaide. Adelaide: Lutheran Press. p. 55. 
  2. ^ Thomas, Arthur Nutter in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
  3. ^ Renfrey, Lionel E. W. (1990). "Thomas, Arthur Nutter (1869 - 1954)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: Australian National University. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120219b.htm. Retrieved 2009-11-14. 

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