Thomas Carlyle (lawyer)

Thomas Carlyle (17 July 1803 – 28 January 1855) was born in King's Grange near Dumfries in Scotland.

From 1830 on, he came in contact with the Scottish minister Edward Irving who was in process of forming the Catholic Apostolic Church and was named an "apostle” on 1 May 1835.

[1] He is not to be confused with his better-known cousin the man of letters Thomas Carlyle, born a few years earlier also in Dumfriesshire.

One biographer asserts that the similarities did cause confusion: "As a 'double-goer', perplexing strangers in foreign parts as well as at home, the 'Apostle' was occasionally an innocent, inadvertent nuisance to 'our Tom'.

This work is not in the authoritative Bibliography of Thomas Carlyle's Writings and Ana by Isaac Watson Dyer (1928).