Cuthbert Thicknesse
The Very Rev Cuthbert Carroll Thicknesse[1] (19 November 1887 – 2 June 1971) was Dean of St Albans[2] from 1936[3] until his retirement in 1955.
Born into an ecclesiastical family of Lancashire landed gentry,[4] the son of Ven. Francis Norman Thicknesse,[5] and educated at Marlborough and Keble College, Oxford, he was ordained in 1913.[6] He was firstly a Curate of St John-at-Hackney[7] and then a Temporary Chaplain to the Forces, during which time he married Rhoda Oonah Marjorie Madan Pratt.[8] He was wounded at Ypres and became Rector of Badsworth,[9] after which he was Rector of Wigan Parish Church[10] and an Honorary Chaplain to the King before his elevation to the Deanery. A fierce opponent of nuclear weapons,[11] he refused to hold a service of celebration in St Albans Cathedral at the cessation of the war with Japan in August 1945.[12] He was described in his obituary as “a high church man and convinced Anglican”.[13]
References
- ↑ NPG details
- ↑ National Archives details
- ↑ New Dean Of St. Albans Appointment Of Canon Thicknesse The Times Thursday, Mar 05, 1936; pg. 14; Issue 47315; col G
- ↑ Burke's Landed Gentry, 1871, vol. II, pg 1370
- ↑ Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes, 1969, Kelly's Directories, pg 1925
- ↑ Burke’s Peerage
- ↑ Parish web site
- ↑ Peerage News
- ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941
- ↑ Wigan Parish Church Incumbents
- ↑ Opposition to nuclear weapons
- ↑ Obituary Dean Thicknesse The Times Thursday, Jun 03, 1971; pg. 17; Issue 58189; col G
- ↑ Times Obituary (ibid)
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| Preceded by Edward Lowry Henderson |
Dean of St Albans 1936 –1955 |
Succeeded by Arthur Kenneth Mathews |