Thomas Suther

The Right Reverend Thomas Suther
Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney
Rev. Thomas Suther
Church	Scottish Episcopal Church
Diocese	Aberdeen and Orkney
Elected	1865
In office	1865-1883
Successor	Arthur Douglas
Orders
Ordination	1837
Consecration	1865
Personal details
Born	(1814-02-05)5 February 1814 Edinburgh[1]
Died	23 January 1883(1883-01-23) (aged 68) Sanremo, Liguria, Italy
Nationality	Scottish
Denomination	Anglican

Thomas George Spink Suther (5 February 1814 – 23 January 1883) was the Scottish Episcopalian bishop of Aberdeen from 1857 to 1865 and first bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney from 1865 to 1883.[2][3][4][5]

Suther was born in Edinburgh to Deputy Inspector General Peter Suther, M.D. who was posted to Nova Scotia when his son was an infant. His father was a doctor in the Royal Navy and was stationed at Halifax c.1814-1829. Sutherland was educated at King's College, Windsor in Halifax and ordained in 1837.[6][7][8]

Catherine (Fraser) Suther, Aberdeen

At age 21, Suther moved to Scotland and became a curate in St Paul's and St George's Church, Edinburgh, for 19 years.[9] After curacies in Edinburgh and at St James Scottish Episcopal Church in Leith[10] he came to St Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen in 1856.[9] He died at San Remo on 23 January 1883.[11]

In 1835, Suther married Catherine Fraser, daughter of James Fraser.[8]

References

1. Rowan Strong (21 March 2002). Episcopalianism in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: Religious Responses to a Modernizing Society. OUP Oxford. p. 292. ISBN 978-0-19-924922-0.
2. Crockfords
3. Suther's Grave marker inscription, p. 107
4. The Annual Register, Volume 125 edited by Edmund Burke - Obit indicating born in Scotland
5. Nova Scotia and Nova Scotians: a lecture delivered before the Literary and Debating Society of Windsor, N.S. and afterward at the Temperance Hall, Halifax, in behalf of the Athenæum
6. Father's obituary
7. 'The Church of England Magazine, Volume 2 (Jan to July 1837)' p. 15: London: James Burns, 1837
8. Types of Canadian women and of women who are or have been connected with Canada, 1903, p. 326
9. Benjamin W. Crombie (1882). William Scott Douglas (ed.). Modern Athenians; a series of original portraits of memorable citizens of Edinburgh. A. and C. Black. p. 274 – via Internet Archive.
10. "Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000" Bertie, D.M p 316: Edinburgh T & T Clark ISBN 0-567-08746-8
11. Obituary. The Times (London, England), Monday, 29 January 1883; p. 7; Issue 30729.

External links

• Lectern in memory of Suther's daughter Sarah Rachel Amelia Suther

Anglican Communion titles
Preceded by --	Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney 1865–1883	Succeeded by Arthur Douglas