(Francis) Norman Thicknesse (b Deane, Lancashire 9 Aug. 1858 - d St Albans 13 April 1946)[1] was Archdeacon of Middlesex,[2] from 1930[3] until 1933.[4]

Of a Lancashire landed gentry family,[5] the son of a bishop[6] he was educated at Winchester[7] and BNC.[8] He held incumbencies in Limehouse, Northampton and Hornsey.[9] He was Rector of St George's, Hanover Square from 1911[10] to 1933;[11] and Rural Dean of Westminster from 1912 to 1927.[12]

His son was Cuthbert Thicknesse, Dean of St Albans from 1936 to 1955.[13]

Notes

  1. ↑ Obituary. The Times (London, England), Monday, Apr 15, 1946; pg. 4; Issue 50427
  2. ↑ Anglican History
  3. ↑ Ecclesiastical News. The Times (London, England), Saturday, Jul 05, 1930; pg. 19; Issue 45557
  4. ↑ ‘THICKNESSE, Ven. Francis Norman’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 24 March 2016
  5. ↑ Burke's Landed Gentry, 1871, vol. II, pg 1370
  6. ↑ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Thicknesse, Francis Norman" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  7. ↑ Winchester College at War
  8. ↑ forebears
  9. ↑ British History On-line
  10. ↑ Church web-site
  11. ↑ thePeerage.com
  12. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory1929-30 p1274 Oxford, OUP,1929
  13. ↑ Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes, 1969, Kelly's Directories, pg 1925


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