The Right Reverend

Thomas Suther
Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney
Rev. Thomas Suther
ChurchScottish Episcopal Church
DioceseAberdeen and Orkney
Elected1865
In office1865-1883
SuccessorArthur Douglas
Orders
Ordination1837
Consecration1865
Personal details
Born(1814-02-05)5 February 1814
Edinburgh[1]
Died23 January 1883(1883-01-23) (aged 68)
Sanremo, Liguria, Italy
NationalityScottish
DenominationAnglican

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. ^ a b Types of Canadian women and of women who are or have been connected with Canada, 1903, p. 326
  9. ^ a b 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.

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