[3] Lightfoot was educated at Nottingham High School and St Augustine's College, Canterbury.
[4] Following several years as a journalist he was ordained Deacon by the Bishop of London in 1857.
[5] He went to South Africa the following year[6] and was ordained Priest by the Bishop of Cape Town in 1859.
After a curacy at St George, Cape Town he was Priest in charge of St Paul, Cape Town[7] then Vicar general of the Anglican Diocese of Cape Town and Missionary Canon until his appointment as Archdeacon.
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