Thomas Dealtry

[2] Mainly self-taught, Dealtry worked as an usher in a Doncaster school and then as tutor to a private family, where he eloped with the sister of his pupil in 1819.

[4] Spotted in his church role by Charles Simeon, he was introduced to Rev Thomas Thomason who had recently returned from Bengal.

Together they organised to send Dealtry to India as a chaplain in Bengal where he arrived in January 1829.

[5] In 1835 he became Archdeacon of Calcutta, remaining in the post until 1848 when he returned to England on furlough, succeeding Baptist Wriothesley Noel as pastor of St John's Church on Bedford Row.

[7] Lord Lugard, whose father was a friend of the Bishop in Madras, had 'Dealtry' as one of his Christian names.