Thomas Forman (priest)

Thomas Pears Gordon Forman (27 January 1885 – 22 November 1965) was Archdeacon of Lindisfarne from 1944 until 1955.

Forman was born in Repton, Derbyshire, and educated at Shrewsbury and Pembroke College, Cambridge. After a curacy at Kenilworth he was an Assistant Master at his old school until wartime service as a Temporary Chaplain to the Forces. Following a further curacy in York he was Chaplain to the Duke of Portland until 1924. After this he was Rector of Bothal for twenty years until his Archdeacon’s appointment.

References

  1. ↑ London Gazette
  2. ↑ Deaths The Times (London, England), Friday, Nov 26, 1965; pg. 1; Issue 56489
  3. ↑ "Ecclesiastical News. New Archdeacon of Lindisfarne", The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Aug 01, 1944; pg. 6; Issue 49923
  4. ↑ "Ecclesiastical News", The Times (London, England), Saturday, Aug 13, 1955; pg. 8; Issue 53298
  5. ↑ Cricket Archive Deprecated link archived 2013-04-20 at archive.today
  6. ↑ ”The Shrewsbury School Register” Auden, J.E (Ed) Oswestry; Woodall, Minshall, Thomas & Co; 1909
  7. ↑ ‘Forman, Ven. Thomas Pears Gordon’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Oct 2012 accessed 29 March 2013
  8. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory1947-48Oxford, OUP,1947 p452