Thomas Pears Gordon Forman (b
Repton
Repton is a village and civil parish in the South Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England, located on the edge of the River Trent floodplain, about north of Swadlincote. The population taken at the 2001 Census was 2,707, increasing to 2,8 ...
27 January 1885 - 22 November 1965) was
Archdeacon of Lindisfarne
The Archdeacon of Lindisfarne is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the diocese of Newcastle of the Church of England.
History
The archdeaconry was formed by Order in Council on 2 September 1842 from part of the Diocese of Durham archdeaconry ...
from 1944 until 1955.
Forman was educated at
Shrewsbury
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and
Pembroke College, Cambridge. After a
curacy
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at
Kenilworth
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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
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he was
Chaplain
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to the
Duke of Portland
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until 1924. After this he was
Rector
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Style or title
*Rector (ecclesiastical), a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations
*Rector (academia), a senior official in an edu ...
of
Bothal
Bothal is a village in Northumberland, in England. It is situated between Morpeth and Ashington. There is a castle, a church, a vicarage opposite the church gates, some stepping stones over the River Wansbeck, and a few houses.
Bothal was the ...
for twenty years until his
Archdeacon
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’s appointment.
[ Crockford's Clerical Directory1947-48Oxford, ]OUP
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,1947 p452
References
1885 births
People from Repton
People educated at Shrewsbury School
Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge
Archdeacons of Lindisfarne
1965 deaths
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