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{{Portal|Christianity}}''' Thomas Dealtry ''' (1825–1882)<ref>''Deaths.'' [[The Times]] (London, England), Saturday, 2 December 1882; pg. 1; Issue 30680.</ref> was an [[Anglican]] [[archdeacon]] in India in the mid-19th century.<ref>[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/67281f47-7ca0-4bba-9494-9dff4fff3024 National Archives]</ref> Dealtry was the son of [[Thomas Dealtry]], bishop of Madras.<ref>[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|DNB]] Dealtry, Thomas (1796–1861) A. J. Arbuthnot, revised by Katherine Prior <br />
https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/7381 Published: 23 September 2004; accessed 18 February 2018</ref> He was educated at [[Trinity College, Cambridge]]<ref>[[Alumni Cantabrigienses]]: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, [[John Venn]]/[[John Archibald Venn]] [[Cambridge University Press]] [https://archive.org/stream/p2alumnicantabri02univuoft#page/262/mode/2up > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part II. 1752–1900 Vol. ii Chalmers – Fytche (1944) p262 ]</ref> and [[ordained]] in 1849. After [[Curate|curacies]] in [[Raydon]] and [[Brenchley]] he went as a chaplain to the [[East India Company]] in [[Madras]], where he was archdeacon from 1861 to 1871. Returning to England he held [[Incumbent (ecclesiastical)|incumbencies]] in [[St Mary's Church, Swillington|Swillington]]<ref>''Ecclesiastical Preferments.'' [[The Times]] (London, England), Thursday, 16 May 1872; pg. 5; Issue 27378</ref> and [[Maidstone]]. He is credited with being the originator of the custom of throwing rice at a newly married couple, which he had seen in India.<ref>[http://www.swillingtonlink.co.uk/page9.html Swillington web-site]</ref> He died on 29 November 1882.<ref>'Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries' [[The Morning Post]] (London, England), Saturday, 30 December 1882; pg. 6; Issue 34482. British Library Newspapers, Part II: 1800–1900</ref><br />
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