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Anthony Wilson Thorold (13 June 1825 – 25 July 1895) was an
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in the
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. The son of a
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priest, he also served as
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. It was in that role that he travelled throughout North America and met with leaders of
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. While he wrote a number of devotional books, he is best remembered for having recruited
Isabella Gilmore Isabella Gilmore (née Morris; 1842–1923) was an English churchwoman who oversaw the revival of the Deaconess Order in the Anglican Communion. Isabella served actively in the poorest parishes in South London for almost two decades and she is r ...
to revive the female diaconate in the
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.


Early life

Thorold was the second son of the Reverend Edward Thorold and his wife Mary (''née'' Wilson), and grandson of
Sir John Thorold, 9th Baronet Sir John Thorold, 9th Baronet (1734–1815) was a British book collector and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1779 to 1796. Early life Thorold was the eldest son of Sir John Thorold, 8th Baronet and his wife Elizabeth Ayton, daugh ...
(1734–1815). He was educated privately, entering
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in 1843; he graduated B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850, was ordained as a deacon in 1849 and as a priest in 1850. He subsequently received a
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by diploma in 1877. He married Henrietta Greene and followed his father into a career in the
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. He served as vicar of
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, Curzon Chapel, and St Pancras. His wife died in 1859 and he married secondly to Emily Labouchère, sister of the MP
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. They had three children: Algar Labouchère Thorold (1866–1936), Dorothy, and Sybil (later Countess de la Bédoyère). His descendants through Sybil include his grandson
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and his great-great-grandson, the historian
Guy de la Bédoyère Guy Martyn Thorold Huchet de la Bédoyère (born November 1957) is a British historian who has published widely on Roman Britain and other subjects; and has appeared regularly on the Channel 4 archaeological television series ''Time Team'', ...
. In 1870 he was elected a member of the first
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, representing the Marylebone Division. His second wife died in 1877, the same year he was made
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. Thorold's cousin,
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, was made
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for
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also that same year.


Travels

Thorold had extensive travels, preaching in the United States in the late 19th century. During that time he visited
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at
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. He recalled that on 1 September 1884, "We went round the new
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, of solid granite, very massively built out of the tithes of the people. It is only one-third finished. Then into the tabernacle now in use, tortoise shape, and capable of holding 7000 people ... we passed the great co-operative store ... and
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's houses', near which was pointed out Mr. Taylor John_Taylor.html" ;"title="John_Taylor_(Mormon).html" ;"title="resumably John Taylor (Mormon)">John Taylor">John_Taylor_(Mormon).html" ;"title="resumably John Taylor (Mormon)">John Taylor a very important and able ruler in the body". Thorold went on to the Great Salt Lake and noted "There is a bathing station here, and almost all the company, gentlemen and ladies, bathed in the sea, which, from the quantity of salt, it is quite impossible to sink". He travelled on and even reached
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before returning home.


Female diaconate

In 1886, he recruited
Isabella Gilmore Isabella Gilmore (née Morris; 1842–1923) was an English churchwoman who oversaw the revival of the Deaconess Order in the Anglican Communion. Isabella served actively in the poorest parishes in South London for almost two decades and she is r ...
to revive the female diaconate in his diocese. Her initial reluctance, based on her lack of theological training and her lack of knowledge of the deaconess order, was worn down by Thorold. At the end of October 1886, she felt she received a calling during Morning Prayer. She later wrote, "it was just as if God's voice had called me, and the intense rest and joy were beyond words." Gilmore and Bishop Thorold proceeded to plan for an order of deaconesses for the Church of England where the women were to be "a curiously effective combination of nurse, social worker and amateur policemen". In 1887, Gilmore was ordained a deaconess and a training house for other woman was put in place, later to be named Gilmore House in her honour. In her nearly 20 years of service, she re-established the female diaconate in the
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.


Final years and legacy

He was translated to the see of
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in 1891 (being enthroned on March 3), where he would live out his days. A prayer survives from this time that is attributed to "Bishop A. W. Thorold, D.D., Lord Bishop of Winchester, England", Unlike his cousin, Bishop Edward Trollope, Thorold performed little serious scholarship. He did write a number of devotional books, among them ''The Yoke of Christ'' (Isbister, London 1884), ''The Gospel of Christ'' (Isbister 1884), and ''The Claim of Christ on the Young'' (Isbister, London 1891). Shortly after his death in 1895, C. H. Simpkinson wrote ''The Life and Work of Bishop Thorold'', published by Isbister in 1896. It contained many quotes from Thorold's correspondence and also accounts of his travels.


References


Further reading

*C. H. Simpkinson, ''The Life and Work of Bishop Thorold''. London: Isbister, 1896


External links


Bibliographic directory
from
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