Thomas Fancourt (22 January 1840 – 1 February 1919) was an Anglican priest, most notably ArchdeaconSt Luke, Wadestown of Wellington"Wellington Cathedral of Saint Paul" Blain, M p42: Wellington, Victoria University of Wellington (VUP), 2002 from 1888 until his death.‘FANCOURT, Ven. Thomas’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 21 Feb 2016
Fancourt was born in Malvern, Worcestershire in 1840.Cyclopedia of New Zealand He was educated at Lancing College and St Augustine's College, Canterbury and ordained in 1867.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908 p477: London, Horace Cox, 1908 After a curacy at Porirua he was the incumbent at St James, Lower Hutt then St John, JohnsonvilleJohnsonville Anglican before his appointment as Archdeacon. He died at Wellington on 1 February 1919.
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