Samuel Thornton was an Anglican bishop in the late quarter of the 19th century and the start of the 20th.
[1] He was born in London[2] on 16 April 1835[3] and educated at Merchant Taylors' School and Queen's College, Oxford.
He was ordained in 1859[4] and after a spell at the London Diocesan Home Mission became Vicar of St Jude's, Whitechapel.
[7] On his return to England he became Vicar of Blackburn[8] and an Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Manchester.
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