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'''Thomas Fanshawe Middleton''' (28 January 1769 – 8 July 1822) was a noted [[Anglican]] [[bishop]].<br />
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==Life==<br />
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He was born in [[Kedleston]] in [[Derbyshire, England]], the son of Thomas Middleton, Rector of Kedleston and educated at [[Christs Hospital]]. He then went up to [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]], and on graduation was ordained in the [[Church of England]]. He was appointed curate of [[Gainsborough, Lincolnshire|Gainsborough]] (1792), Rector of Tansor (1795), Rector of Bytham (1802), Prebendary of Lincoln (1809), Archdeacon of Huntingdon and Vicar of St Pancras.<br />
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In 1814, he became the first [[Anglican Diocese of Calcutta|Bishop of Calcutta]]. This [[diocese]] included not just [[India]], but the entire territory of the [[British East India Company|East India Company]] (EIC). When he arrived in India he found that he was not allowed to ordain "Natives of India", as all ordinations were carried out by the EIC in London. In response, he founded [[Bishop's College Calcutta|Bishop's College]] in Calcutta, which admitted Britons Indians and [[Anglo-Indian]]s, some of whom could go on to ordination. However although the college was built for seventy students, they still only had eight students fourteen years after it opened.<ref name=Hawes>{{cite book|last1=Hawes|first1=Christopher J.|title=Poor Relations: The Making of a Eurasian Community in British India, 1773-1833|date=2013|publisher=Routledge|location=London|pages=85–6}}</ref><br />
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In May 1814, he was elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Society]] on the basis of being "a Gentleman well known to the literary world as the author of several classical works, and conversant with various departments of science" <ref>{{cite web|url= http://www2.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=3&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27middleton%27%29|title= Library and Archive catalog|publisher= The Royal Society|accessdate= 3 October 2010}}{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><br />
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He died in Calcutta of sunstroke on 8 July 1822<ref>[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11616/11616-h/11616-h.htm The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction], Vol. 19, Issue 552, June 16, 1832, p. 388.</ref> and is buried under the altar of [[St. John's Church, Kolkata|St. John's Church]], the then cathedral of Calcutta. There is also a memorial to him in [[St Paul's Cathedral]].<ref>"Memorials of St Paul's Cathedral" [[William Sinclair (Archdeacon of London)|Sinclair, W.]] p. 464: London; Chapman & Hall, Ltd; 1909.</ref><br />
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==External links==<br />
*Warwick William Wroth, [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Middleton,_Thomas_Fanshaw_(DNB00) Middleton, Thomas Fanshaw (DNB00)], ''[[Dictionary of National Biography]]'', 1885–1900, Volume 37.<br />
*Charles Webb Le Bas, ''[https://archive.org/details/lifethomasfansh01basgoog The Life of the Right Reverend Thomas Fanshaw Middleton, D.D., Late Lord Bishop of Calcutta]'', London: Rivington, 1881; digital version on archive.org.<br />
*[https://archive.is/20050408173233/http://chi.gospelcom.net/DAILYF/2003/01/daily-01-28-2003.shtml January 28, 1769 • Thomas Fanshawe Middleton Was the First Bishop of Calcutta], Christian History Institute, gospelcom.net (archived version).<br />
*Dan Graves, [https://www.christianity.com/church/church-history/timeline/1701-1800/thomas-middleton-first-bishop-of-calcutta-11630278.html Thomas Middleton, First Bishop of Calcutta], christianity.com.<br />
* [http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Middleton%2C%20T.%20F.%20%28Thomas%20Fanshaw%29%2C%201769-1822 Online Books by T. F. Middleton (Middleton, T. F. (Thomas Fanshaw), 1769-1822)], The Online Books Page, University of Pennsylvania, upenn.edu.<br />
*[http://www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/lough/5.html "Thomas Fanshaw Middleton, Bishop of Calcutta," St. Paul's Cathedral, by John Graham Lough (1798-1876)] - 1832 marble sculpture of Middleton.<br />
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