Thomas Lathbury

Thomas Lathbury (1798 – 1865) was an English Church of England clergyman known as an ecclesiastical historian.

Life

The son of Henry Lathbury, was born at Brackley, Northamptonshire, and educated at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. He graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1824, and Master of Arts in 1827.

Having taken holy orders, Lathbury was appointed curate of Chatteris, Cambridgeshire. Afterwards he was curate at Bath, Somerset and at Wootton, Northamptonshire. In 1831 he obtained the curacy of Mangotsfield, Gloucestershire. His fifth curacy was the Bath Abbey, to which he was appointed in 1838. In 1848 he was presented by Bishop James Henry Monk to the parish of St. Simon's, Baptist Mills, Bristol.

Lathbury was one of the promoters of the Church Congress held at Bristol in September 1864. He died at his residence, Cave Street, St. Paul's, Bristol, on 11 February 1865.

Family

Lathbury left a widow and four children, three of them sons. The eldest son, Daniel Conner Lathbury, qualified as a barrister but became a journalist and newspaper editor; the second took orders in the Church of England.