Thomas Stanton (1806 or 1807 – 24 March 1875) was an Anglican cleric who was Archdeacon of Wilts“Elementary education : a letter to the clergy of the Archdeaconry on the new education bill” Stanton, T: Salisbury, Brown & Co,1870 from 1868"Church Rates" The Times (London), Wednesday, 6 Jan 1869; pg. 5; Issue 26327 until 1874.
From Somerset, he was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge. After a curacy at Buckhurst Hill in Essex,"CHURCH AND UNIVERSITIES" The Blackburn Standard (Blackburn, England), Wednesday, 21 June 1837; Issue 129 he was rector of Holy Trinity at Shaftesbury in Dorset from 1846"Multiple News Items", The Morning Post (London), Thursday, 2 April 1846; p.6; Issue 22567 to 1852;"ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE" The Morning Chronicle (London), Monday, 12 April 1852; Issue 26613 and of All Saints, Burbage, WiltshireKelly’s 1915 from then"CLERICAL" Daily News (London), Friday, 24 December 1852 until 1874. He was appointed Canon of Sarum in 1859.
He died on 24 March 1875."Deaths", The Times (London), Thursday, 25 Mar 1875; p.11; Issue 28272
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