Thomas Flanagan (born in England in 1814; died at Kidderminster, 21 July 1865) was an English Catholic priest and historian.
[1] In 1847 Flanagan brought out his first book, a small manual of British and Irish history, containing numerous statistical tables.
The same year he became prefect of studies and acted successfully in that capacity until 1850, when he was appointed vice-president and then president of Sedgley Park School, and he became one of the first canons of the newly formed Birmingham Diocese in 1851.
In order to allow him more leisure for this, he was appointed chaplain to the Hornyold family at Blackmore Park in Worcestershire, and his history appeared in two volumes, during his residence there, in 1857.
His style, however, was somewhat concise, and Bishop William Ullathorne remarked that Canon Flanagan was a compiler of history rather than a vivid historian.