(Francis) Norman Thicknesse (b Deane, Lancashire 9 Aug. 1858 - d St Albans 13 April 1946)Obituary. The Times (London, England), Monday, Apr 15, 1946; pg. 4; Issue 50427 was Archdeacon of Middlesex,Anglican History from 1930Ecclesiastical News. The Times (London, England), Saturday, Jul 05, 1930; pg. 19; Issue 45557 until 1933.‘THICKNESSE, Ven. Francis Norman’, 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 24 March 2016
Of a Lancashire landed gentry family,Burke's Landed Gentry, 1871, vol. II, pg 1370 the son of a bishop he was educated at WinchesterWinchester College at War and BNC.forebears He held incumbencies in Limehouse, Northampton and Hornsey.British History On-line He was Rector of St George's, Hanover Square from 1911Church web-site to 1933;thePeerage.com and Rural Dean of Westminster from 1912 to 1927.Crockford's Clerical Directory1929-30 p1274 Oxford, OUP,1929
His son was Cuthbert Thicknesse, Dean of St Albans from 1936 to 1955.Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes, 1969, Kelly's Directories, pg 1925
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