Thomas Lightfoot

The Ven. Thomas Fothergill Lightfoot, B.D.[1] (4 March 1831 – 12 November 1904) was Archdeacon of The Cape[2] from 1895 to 1904.[3]

Lightfoot was educated at Nottingham High School and St Augustine's College, Canterbury.[4] Following several years as a journalist he was ordained Deacon by the Bishop of London in 1857.[5] He went to South Africa the following year[6] and was ordained Priest by the Bishop of Cape Town in 1859. After a curacy at St George, Cape Town he was Priest in charge of St Paul, Cape Town[7] then Vicar general of the Anglican Diocese of Cape Town and Missionary Canon until his appointment as Archdeacon.[8]

Notes

1. Multiple News Items "The Standard" (London, England), Saturday, March 15, 1879; pg. 5; Issue 17050
2. "Christianity in South Africa: A Political, Social, and Cultural History" Elphick, R; Davenport, R (Eds) Kenilworth, Cape Town, David Philip, 2004, ISBN 0864863063
3. ‘LIGHTFOOT, Ven. Thomas Fothergill’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 28 Oct 2015
4. "The Life and Times of Thomas Fothergill Lightfoot" Henry Purefoy Barnett Clarke and William West Jones London : Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd, 1908
5. THE CHURCH Daily News (London, England), Monday, December 21, 1857; Issue 3619
6. "Cape Town: The Making of a City" Nigel Worden, Elizabeth Van Heyningen, Vivian Bickford-Smith Kenilworth, Cape Town, David Philip, 2004, ISBN 0864866569
7. "Inverting the Norm: Racially-Mixed Congregations in a Segregationist State" Venter, D South Africa, Galjoen Press, 2007, ISBN 9780615172231
8. "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900