The Ven. Thomas Fothergill Lightfoot, B.D. (4 March 1831 – 12 November 1904) was Archdeacon of The Cape"Christianity in South Africa: A Political, Social, and Cultural History" Elphick, R; Davenport, R (Eds) Kenilworth, Cape Town, David Philip, 2004, from 1895 to 1904.‘LIGHTFOOT, Ven. Thomas Fothergill’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 28 Oct 2015
Lightfoot was educated at Nottingham High School and St Augustine's College, Canterbury."The Life and Times of Thomas Fothergill Lightfoot" Henry Purefoy Barnett Clarke and William West Jones London : Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd, 1908 Following several years as a journalist he was ordained Deacon by the Bishop of London in 1857.THE CHURCH Daily News (London, England), Monday, 21 December 1857; Issue 3619 He went to South Africa the following year"Cape Town: The Making of a City" Nigel Worden, Elizabeth Van Heyningen, Vivian Bickford-Smith Kenilworth, Cape Town, David Philip, 2004, 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"Inverting the Norm: Racially-Mixed Congregations in a Segregationist State" Venter, D South Africa, Galjoen Press, 2007, then Vicar general of the Anglican Diocese of Cape Town and Missionary Canon until his appointment as Archdeacon."The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900
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