Richard Thomas (bishop)

[1][2] Thomas was born on 24 October 1880 at Lydney, Gloucestershire, England, the son of railway clerk Daniel Thomas, and his wife Jane, (née Griffiths).

[3] He began his career with a curacy at St John Baptist, Coventry[4] after which he emigrated to Australia to become a Bush Brother.

From 1923 to 1925 he was Archdeacon of North Queensland[5] before his ordination to the episcopate of Willochra.

On 16 April 1958, while in England to attend the Lambeth Conference, Thomas died at Grays Thurrock, Essex.

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