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Arthur Nutter Thomas (11 December 1869 – 10 April 1954), commonly referred to as Dr Nutter Thomas or A. Nutter Thomas, was the
Arthur Nutter Thomas (11 December 1869 – 10 April 1954), commonly referred to as Dr Nutter Thomas or A. Nutter Thomas, was the Anglican Bishop of Adelaide
The Anglican Diocese of Adelaide is a diocese of the Anglican Church of Australia. It is centred in the city of Adelaide in the state of South Australia and extends along the eastern shore of the Gulf St Vincent from the town of Eudunda in the ...
, South Australia, from 1906 to 1940.
Early life
Nutter Thomas was born inHackney, London
Hackney is a district in East London, England, forming around two-thirds of the area of the modern London Borough of Hackney, to which it gives its name. It is 4 miles (6.4 km) northeast of Charing Cross and includes part of the Queen E ...
, to Charles James Thomas and his wife Mary Matilda Thomas, née Nutter.
He was educated at Pembroke College of the University of Cambridge
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and was awarded a bachelor's degree
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in 1893, a master's degree
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in 1895 and a Doctor of Divinity
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degree in 1906. He was made deacon on 20 May 1894, by Walsham How, Bishop of Wakefield
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, at Wakefield Cathedral
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; ordained priest the following year; and consecrated a bishop on Candlemas
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1906 (2 February) at Westminster Abbey
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, by Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury
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. He arrived in South Australia two months later with his wife. On retirement he had spent over 34 years as a bishop, the longest for an Anglican
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bishop in Australia at that time.
Thomas's episcopacy as Bishop of Adelaide was contemporaneous with the 40-year incumbency at St George's Church, Goodwood of Canon Percy Wise, with whom he had a long and frosty relationship, Thomas being a traditional Anglican, a follower of the Book of Common Prayer
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, and Wise being radically Anglo-Catholic
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.
Family
Nutter Thomas married Mary Theodora Lewis before leaving England. They had two daughters and a son, all born at Bishop's Court, North Adelaide. *Ursula Nutter Thomas (10 January 1908 – ) married the Rev. William C. S. Johnson on 20 April 1937 *M(ary) Katherine Nutter Thomas (16 August 1910 – ) married the Rt Rev. Hubert Baddeley on 13 November 1935. He wasBishop of Melanesia The Archbishop of Melanesia is the spiritual head of the Church of the Province of Melanesia, which is a province of the Anglican Communion in the South Pacific region, covering the nations of Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. From 1861 until the inaugu ...
from 1932 to 1947.
*Christopher Nutter Thomas (11 July 1912 – ) was appointed curate to the Rev. F. E. Thornton, at Holy Trinity Church, Kew, Victoria
Kew (;) is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, 5 km east from Melbourne's Melbourne central business district, Central Business District, located within the City of Boroondara Local government areas of Victor ...
, in 1946.
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