Thomas Stock (1750–1803) established the first Sunday school in the United Kingdom.

After Abingdon, he gained a scholarship to Pembroke College, Oxford and graduated BA 1771.

[1] Entering Holy Orders, Stock was elected to a college fellowship from 1771 to 1774 and then was curate at Ashbury in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire).

[2][3] From 1787 until his death in 1803 he was holding the living at his Gloucester incumbencies and headmastership.

There are memorials to Stock at Ashbury parish church and in the nave of Gloucester Cathedral.