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Thomas Henry Fitzpatrick (died 1866) was, along with Robert Clark, one of the first two British
Church Missionary Society The Church Mission Society (CMS), formerly known as the Church Missionary Society, is a British mission society working with the Christians around the world. Founded in 1799, CMS has attracted over nine thousand men and women to serve as mission ...
(CMS) missionaries to the
Punjab Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising ...
.


Biography

He was educated in Law at
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, but was converted to
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when about to be called to the bar. He took a theological degree from
Trinity College, Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...
, and became
Curate A curate () is a person who is invested with the ''care'' or ''cure'' (''cura'') ''of souls'' of a parish. In this sense, "curate" means a parish priest; but in English-speaking countries the term ''curate'' is commonly used to describe clergy w ...
at Bishop Ryder Church, Birmingham. When the Punjab was opened for CMS Mission activities, he was sent as CMS missionary with Robert Clark to begin a mission in Punjab. He married Anna Longridge Gooch, first wife, on 14 April 1851. On 1 July 1851, he sailed along with his wife and Robert Clark to
India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
, and reached
Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...
(present
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) on 13 October 1851. They moved from Calcutta to Punjab and were involved in missionary activities, including printing dictionaries, grammars, and starting schools. A first CMS mission station was founded in
Amritsar Amritsar (), historically also known as Rāmdāspur and colloquially as ''Ambarsar'', is the second largest city in the Indian state of Punjab, after Ludhiana. It is a major cultural, transportation and economic centre, located in the Majha r ...
in 1952—the foundation-stone of a church was laid on 24 May 1952. He shuttled between Punjab,
Lahore Lahore ( ; pnb, ; ur, ) is the second most populous city in Pakistan after Karachi and 26th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 13 million. It is the capital of the province of Punjab where it is the largest city. ...
,
Multan Multan (; ) is a city in Punjab, Pakistan, on the bank of the Chenab River. Multan is Pakistan's seventh largest city as per the 2017 census, and the major cultural, religious and economic centre of southern Punjab. Multan is one of the List ...
, and
Peshawar Peshawar (; ps, پېښور ; hnd, ; ; ur, ) is the sixth most populous city in Pakistan, with a population of over 2.3 million. It is situated in the north-west of the country, close to the International border with Afghanistan. It is ...
as part of CMS missionary activities; he transferred himself to Multan station and later to Lahore in 1856. His first wife Anna Longridge Gooch, having suffered from severe health problems, was compelled to return home in 1861. She died on 18 February 1863. Fitzpatrick returned to Punjab in the end of the year 1863; he was compelled to return England with prostrating illness in 1864. While in England, he served as Curate for a few months at St Mary's Chapel,
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. In September 1865, he became
Vicar A vicar (; Latin: ''vicarius'') is a representative, deputy or substitute; anyone acting "in the person of" or agent for a superior (compare "vicarious" in the sense of "at second hand"). Linguistically, ''vicar'' is cognate with the English pref ...
of Dalston in
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, and married his second wife Anne Barton; however, he held the post for only a few months, and died on 11 February 1866 at Dalston.


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Anna Longridge, m. 4 Apr. 1851, Rev. Thomas Henry Fitzpatrick, C.M.G., and d. 18 Feb. 1863


{{DEFAULTSORT:Fitzpatrick, Thomas Henry 1866 deaths English Anglican missionaries Anglican missionaries in India Date of birth unknown 19th-century English Anglican priests