Thomas Masters

Reverend Thomas Heywood Masters, CBE (9 April 1865 – 1 September 1939) was an Anglican priest.[1][2][3]

For the mayor of colonial Philadelphia, see Thomas Masters (mayor).

Masters was born in 1865,[4] and educated at Withington High School, at Inverness College, in Hanover and at Christ's College, Cambridge.[5] Ordained in 1889, his first posts were curacies at St Peter's, Caverswall and St Mark's, Lakenham. He then held incumbencies at All Saints, North Scarle[6] and from 1901[7] at All Saints, East Meon.

During the Great War, he was a Red Cross Ambulance driver serving in France before his appointment as a Temporary Chaplain to the Forces. Although 50 and married with 4 children, he was ‘accepted for France going out in 13 days time with his teeth attended to’. He could ride and speak French and German.[8] By the end of the War, although he had served for only three years, he had been promoted to Assistant Chaplain-General and was twice Mentioned in Despatches. He was also awarded a CBE.[9]When peace returned he became Vicar of St Peter's, Petersfield.[10] After this he was Rural Dean of Portsmouth then Provost of Portsmouth Cathedral,[11] also becoming an Honorary Chaplain to the King.[12]

Masters died on 1 September 1939[13] and there is a memorial to him at East Meon.[14]

References
  1. The Times, 28 April 1893; pg. 11; Issue 33937; col B, University Intelligence. Oxford, 27 April.
  2. National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives
  3. “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
  4. Family genealogy site
  5. "Masters, Thomas Heywood (MSTS886TH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  6. "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900
  7. "Ecclesiastical intelligence". The Times (36622). London. 26 November 1901. p. 8.
  8. Index Card Museum of Army Chaplaincy
  9. Who Was Who,A and C Black
  10. A history of Christianity in Petersfield: the stories of the local churches: Petersfield, Petersfield Area Historical Society, 2001 Monograph No 4 ISSN 0262-5970
  11. History in Portsmouth Archived 6 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  12. Ecclesiastical News. New Chaplains To The King The Times, 22 October 1921; pg. 10; Issue 42858; col E
  13. Deaths, The Times, 4 September 1939; pg. 1; Issue 48401; col A
  14. Parish registers web-site
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Bernard Williams		 Provost of Portsmouth
1930 – 1938		 Succeeded by
Eric Noel Porter Goff


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