Thomas Dealtry (1825–1882)[1] was an Anglican archdeacon in India in the mid-19th century.[2] Dealtry was the son of Thomas Dealtry, bishop of Madras.[3] He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge[4] and ordained in 1849. After 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 incumbencies in Swillington[5] 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.[6] He died on 29 November 1882.[7]
References
- ↑ Deaths. The Times (London, England), Saturday, 2 December 1882; pg. 1; Issue 30680.
- ↑ National Archives
- ↑ DNB Dealtry, Thomas (1796–1861) A. J. Arbuthnot, revised by Katherine Prior https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/7381 Published: 23 September 2004; accessed 18 February 2018
- ↑ 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 > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part II. 1752–1900 Vol. ii Chalmers – Fytche (1944) p262
- ↑ Ecclesiastical Preferments. The Times (London, England), Thursday, 16 May 1872; pg. 5; Issue 27378
- ↑ Swillington web-site
- ↑ '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